Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:28:23 +0200
From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Echo Indigo on 110CT's 64MB RAM
Matthew Hanson wrote:
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 02:54:22 +0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: [LIB] Echo Indigo on 110CT's 64MB RAM
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I found this guy, Daniel Iversen's website on, "Making Windows 2000 run
(rather well) on only 32MB RAM":
http://www.nexle.dk/daniel/win2000-32mb/
I've had a glance tru it. What he describes seems plain standard stuff
(but still useful). I'm sure there are some more services to disable
which can help.
The suggestion to not install any service packs seems a bit ill-adviced
unless you never connect to the Internet. Those SPs haven't been made
for nothing....
I don't see any posts from or about him in the list archives.
I've already done much of what he's described, but the process of
installing and using X-Setup from X-teq looks insteresting.
Then there's Fred Vorck's web page Philip pointed to some time back that
describes the process of making a custom Win2000 setup disk that would
eliminate installing Internet Explorer and a few other components.
Don't know if I need to go that route yet though.
Removing IE before you even install Win2K (like Vorck describes) will
eliminate some 20 MB RAM usage (paged out or in RAM). That surely helps
to eliminate startup time and paging (trashing the hard disk when
starting applications). It will also decrease the footprint of Windwos
Explorer (which is intimately linked to IE).
From what I remember (I do not use my Libby anymore these days) my
IE-less Win2K (SP4) ran with acceptable responsiveness (for a 233 MHz /
64 MB RAM PC), even with AVG anti-virus & ZA. I ran even OpenOffice on
it (very slow to start, once loaded it's fast enough tho). But e.g.,
Acrobat reader took ages to just scroll up a page in a 10 MB document.
Philip
