I agree that 20 Gb is a practical Min size for Windows OS. 7.6 GB
for the install leaves less than 25% free space on a 10 gb partition,
and is a ticking time bomb. There are clever ways to do minimalist
installs, but that is another matter and not for the faint of
heart. IN my experience, Chinese grad students are experts ant
minimal installs.
I fully agree with your statement about running unpatched MS
products, not just windows. I just was not as forthright
At 02:07 PM 4/17/2009, you wrote:
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:22:10 -0500 Loren Faeth <lfa...@leadingchange.com>
wrote:
> A fully patched and updated xp copy takes something like 7.5.to 8 gb,
> so IMHO, it takes at least 10 GB for XP without a lot of
> software.... I don't believe it is wise to run unpatched MS software.
In setting up recent XP systems at work, I have given the OS a 20 GB
partition. I have a 10 GB partition on my work laptop and have to juggle
stuff around to keep it empty enough to defragment easily.
About the running of unpatched MS software, I'll be much stronger:
It is absolutely stupid and foolhardy to run unpatched MS software.
If there weren't jillions of people doing that, we wouldn't have all the
spam, denial of service, zombie robot network, and other problems we have
now.
Craig
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