Or, if you value your own time, retire your old XP and buy a Win10 computer - this would probably remain suitable for use for a decade, by which time your little darlings will be at university learning how to develop their own systems.ĭenisI've kept this ~2005 laptop as I like the keyboard and used it for creative writing, the battery is STILL good for 3-4+ hours, and it hooked up to a portable scanner that I wanted to use to scan Aunt's family pictures. I had 2GB RAM & 100GB HDD but added a bigger additional HDD in the DVD slot so I could have the same set of audio files that I was used to having on my other computers. I ran Windows 10 x86 on an old WinXP for a couple of years it was a bit slower than it had been with WinXP. Your problem will not the the main resources because you can use Windows 10 32 bit to reduce demands. 2-4GB RAM is OK (particularly for 32 bit), you are going to struggle with that HDD - adding a small SSD (even 120GB) for the OS will give so much better performanceĪlternatively - Linux will work - dunno about Win 12 but I recall modding/theming Mint to look and behave like Win 10 back in the day - I may still have that theme somewhere. I'm not sure where to post it.)Depends on CPU. (Sorry if this should be in another thread. Of course, I might be able to load Chrome and make it similar to a Chromebook. While I could likely cope with Linux, this PC might be used by grandkids and the apps might be too different for them. I had seen something about Win 10 Lite and came looking for it here, but in researching further, I see it's actually called Win 12 Lite and it's Linux based ( .uk/lite) and out of UK.

Or, if you value your own time, retire your old XP and buy a Win10 computer - this would probably remain suitable for use for a decade, by which time your little darlings will be at university learning how to develop their own Brink - you might want to move his post & mine into a new thread. So do that before parting with any money. You will only know for sure how it will perform by trying it.

I had 2GB RAM & 100GB HDD but added a bigger additional HDD in the DVD slot so I could have the same set of audio files that I was used to having on my other computers.Ģ getting the users to accept the very slow performance. The machine is still very functional, but low on resources (~2-4GB of RAM and 40-70GB HDD), so it might not do well with full Win 10 Home.Īny suggestions?Your problem will not the the main resources because you can use Windows 10 32 bit to reduce demands. I'm looking for a lightweight Windows that I can put on an old Win XP laptop.

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