Linked by David Adams on Sat 16th Jul 2005 23:02 UTC, submitted by daniel_iversen
Time to throw out the old Pentium I/MMX computers? Not yet... read this guide on how to install Windows 2000 on a very old computer with only 32MB RAM and tweak it to run very fast.
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actually i think win98 is as much of a hog if not more than w2k... so i think w2k is a good move... i also think w2k is a much better os than win98....
some of the tools he talks about in here he could accomplish the same thing without the tools but oh well...
most of this just sounds like normal stuff i do anyway since i like my machine to have as much resources available as possible.... also on laptops, depending on the brand you will have hkcmd or tp4mon and you can kill those off as well.... I also kill dhcp and set my ip manually,distributed transaction controler, alerter, remote access stuff, telephony, windows time....
If you do kill event log I THINK that is the one that will hang for a while on bootup...
i think i did end up with a service pack 4 recently for some program tho and it seems alright... I think my laptop uses about 24megs on startup....
I just plain DISABLE some of the services
not a bad article....
of course he could just use linux on a old machine to act as a gateway with the modem hooked to that and then he would be able to not skip the firewall, the telephony services and remote connection stuff as well...