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up dating windows 2000, help

  • 03-09-2008 5:56pm
    #1
    Overature
    Registered Users Posts: 908 ✭✭✭


    i recently got a window 2000/millenium laptop for free. i want to upgrade it to a Xp or vista. its really slow at the moment and i dont want to crash it all together. what do i go about doing? will i need a new hard drive and ram etc? cheers for any help


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  • #2
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,961 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    you should be able to upgrade it to XP. I wouldnt do Vista. Make sure the memory is at the very least512MB - if not, youre better off bricking it.


  • #3
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,427 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    no point getting an upgrade license since it would be locked to the laptop and will live / die with it
    so you would need to buy a new license but that would probably be worth as much as the laptop !

    Vista on a laptop too old for XP would be just unusable even if you had 512MB
    XP is an option but it's very close to windows 2000 so not really worth upgrading from windows 2000.

    if you aren't prepared to pay for a license and you want a newer OS then have a look at www.ubuntu.com , you will need 256MB for that though


  • #4
    Overature
    Registered Users Posts: 908 ✭✭✭Overature


    yeah i see your point, the main thing i want is it to be as fast as a Xp or vista. its really slow.


  • #5
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,427 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    with few if any exceptions newer OS's are slower than older OS's if run on the same hardware
    newer OS's can be faster if but only if run on newer hardware than the older OS runs on

    Putting a very old OS on a new machine can be freaky fast sometimes !

    Moores law suggests that every 5 years computers will be 10 times faster, though in the future it probably translates to 10 cores :)

    If it could easily be made fast then you probably wouldn't have got for free would you ?


  • #6
    kleefarr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,744 ✭✭✭kleefarr


    Download ccleaner and give it a run. Use it to uninstall any applications you could do without. Do a registry scan while you're at it.

    It may run a little faster.

    Good luck.


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  • #7
    bushy...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,467 ✭✭✭bushy...


    You could use this : http://www.nliteos.com/
    to cut some of the unnecessary stuff out of xp , works well.


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