paw, if you had it to do over would you have left the old OS on it? Mine is W98 'SE'... It of course seems way slow when compared to my P4 and my Centrino... but... would you?
Paw - it may be a memory or virtual memory issue. If you upgrade your RAM to at least 256 MB or 516 MB, and reset your virtual memory to be at least 1 GB, you may experience better performance.
OddTom, what is your reason for wanting to upgrade your operating system? You might be better off sticking with 98 until you upgrade to a different machine. We've got a desktop machine running 98, and it does okay.
Are you experiencing performance problems with it? perhaps PCViagra . . .
If you are just noticing some slowness, or there are applications that won't run on it, etc, that would be good reasons to upgrade. Of course, the slowness might come from spyware apps that may be on there. Have you recently run Spybot Search & Destroy and AdAware on that machine?
Given the state of technology for laptops, Win98 ain't all that bad.
on your computer, windows XP would run faster if your computer had a PIII 600 to 700 mhz speed processor or above.
I know from a friend that works with computers that XP requires a high end PIII processor (600mhz or higher) or a P4 or higher suggested, and 128meg of memory is just enough to run the minimum install of XP. I would recomend 512meg or more of memory if your computer can handle that much to run Windows XP. also having a large capacity hard drive for the recommended install of XP wouldn't hurt also.
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pawtucket
I updated my Sony Laptop P3 450mhz with
WinXP. It slowed it down drastically. Although someone who had a P2 is using it and thinks it's reallly fast.
So it does handle XP, but you lose on the speed end of things
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paw, if you had it to do over would you have left the old OS on it? Mine is W98 'SE'... It of course seems way slow when compared to my P4 and my Centrino... but... would you?
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Tom- You might consider putting 2000 pro on it.
I did so with an even older Fujitsu PII 200 and felt it was an improvement over 98
2000 probably has the drivers included, but the sony site should have the 2000 drivers for it
2000 will probably give you a slight performance improvement and it has a lot tof the background features that went in to XP
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Paw - it may be a memory or virtual memory issue. If you upgrade your RAM to at least 256 MB or 516 MB, and reset your virtual memory to be at least 1 GB, you may experience better performance.
OddTom, what is your reason for wanting to upgrade your operating system? You might be better off sticking with 98 until you upgrade to a different machine. We've got a desktop machine running 98, and it does okay.
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hmmm... Mine is an older Vaio... it has 1024 meg of ram in it... the earlier kind, not the new modern kind...
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Are you experiencing performance problems with it? perhaps PCViagra . . .
If you are just noticing some slowness, or there are applications that won't run on it, etc, that would be good reasons to upgrade. Of course, the slowness might come from spyware apps that may be on there. Have you recently run Spybot Search & Destroy and AdAware on that machine?
Given the state of technology for laptops, Win98 ain't all that bad.
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so.... you'd suggest just leaving the 98SE on it?
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Unless you're having problems, it probably would
be better to leave 98 on it.
Meanwhile, clean out the drive of trash.
Update AdAware and Spybot: Search and Destroy and run them;
update your antivirus and run that.
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on your computer, windows XP would run faster if your computer had a PIII 600 to 700 mhz speed processor or above.
I know from a friend that works with computers that XP requires a high end PIII processor (600mhz or higher) or a P4 or higher suggested, and 128meg of memory is just enough to run the minimum install of XP. I would recomend 512meg or more of memory if your computer can handle that much to run Windows XP. also having a large capacity hard drive for the recommended install of XP wouldn't hurt also.
I hope that this helps some.
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I concur with danteh and wordywolf.
My work laptop is a PIII with 512 MB RAM, and it runs XP pretty okay. I upgraded the RAM from 128, as it was running pretty slowly with that.
So if the laptop has less than a PIII with at least 500 MHz speed, and less than 128 MB RAM, leave 98SE on it.
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I maxed out the ram, steve!. I think it was 512m. It is down and out right now, but I will check when i get it up and running.
I would leave 98 on the machine, Tom and I may actually put it back on after I take all my files safely off the machine
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