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chaz47
Joined: 11 Sep 2003
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 Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 8:05 pm Post subject: Would you trust MicroXP as your main PC's OS? |
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My PC is aging aging aging. It's a Dell with a 1.5 Ghz Centrino and 2 GB of RAM. I'm thinking about installing MicroXP on it but am wondering how secure it is. What do you think?
It's also developed pretty bad fan noise which is annoying as well. |
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giraffe
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Dont know about MicroXP but about your Fan noise have you cleaned the inside of your pc recently? You might want to vacuum the dust out and use one of those compressed cans of air on all the fans inside the pc and make sure everything is screwed in properly. Doing that solved my fan noise problems. |
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chaz47
Joined: 11 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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| giraffe wrote: |
| Dont know about MicroXP but about your Fan noise have you cleaned the inside of your pc recently? You might want to vacuum the dust out and use one of those compressed cans of air on all the fans inside the pc and make sure everything is screwed in properly. Doing that solved my fan noise problems. |
I probably should have mentioned it's a laptop. I did take it apart to try clean it. I got the case split open and managed to swab out some big chunks of crud but there are too many components wired together in there and I'm afraid of mucking about too much with it. |
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giraffe
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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| chaz47 wrote: |
| giraffe wrote: |
| Dont know about MicroXP but about your Fan noise have you cleaned the inside of your pc recently? You might want to vacuum the dust out and use one of those compressed cans of air on all the fans inside the pc and make sure everything is screwed in properly. Doing that solved my fan noise problems. |
I probably should have mentioned it's a laptop. I did take it apart to try clean it. I got the case split open and managed to swab out some big chunks of crud but there are too many components wired together in there and I'm afraid of mucking about too much with it. |
Thats where the compress air comes in, you dont have to touch anything just spray it and the dust will come out. But yeah i wouldnt want to mess with a laptop too much. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 4:20 am Post subject: |
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| I am going to use MicroXP on my aging laptop (P3 800)...and yes, I will trust it; it's just XP down to the minimum. There are limitations, but they are well documented. Its made for junkers like mine. |
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ryunatkorea
Joined: 14 Apr 2009
Location: Sincheon, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't see any advantage to using this version of XP unless your old computer only have 2GB of space or your are building a bootable XP USB flash drive that only has 2 GB of space (this was very fun weekend project for me). I'd admit that it would lower negligible amount of RAM usage, but you could achieve the same thing by deleting couple of processes in the task manager. I think there are apps that lets you turn on/off several unnecessary processes including and Windows protected ones at your convenience. If your computer is really that old (pre-P4), I'd consider having fun with Linux or just Win98. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 4:17 am Post subject: |
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| ryunatkorea wrote: |
| If your computer is really that old (pre-P4), I'd consider having fun with Linux or just Win98. |
Linux�
Get Less Done. Faster. |
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ryunatkorea
Joined: 14 Apr 2009
Location: Sincheon, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Demophobe wrote: |
Linux�
Get Less Done. Faster. |
This was a junker computer we're talking about, I wouldn't consider old computer for productivity in Windows or Linux. My suggestion was that Linux platform on an old secondary machine would give a chance to familiarize and have fun with something new. Noobish reflex against Linux/Windows/Mac is the epitome of "get less done, faster." |
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chaz47
Joined: 11 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I've got it installed and it works beautifully... except (dramatic pause) the drivers CD I got from Dell doesn't seem to be sufficient. I can't get my sound card or usb mass storage to function. I think it has something to do with my chipset drivers. The guy who put this OS together says sp3 is "slipstreamed" into it but I keep getting messages saying "please insert sp3 CD... etc...".
I downloaded the recommended drivers packs from the site specified in the readme of the OS but still no dice. I've got another 3rd party one I'm about to try.
All the drivers issues aside, and I blame Dell for this mostly. The Commit Charge is easily 100M less than before. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 5:40 am Post subject: |
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| ryunatkorea wrote: |
This was a junker computer we're talking about, I wouldn't consider old computer for productivity in Windows or Linux. My suggestion was that Linux platform on an old secondary machine would give a chance to familiarize and have fun with something new. Noobish reflex against Linux/Windows/Mac is the epitome of "get less done, faster." |
Welcome, defensive little tissue paper-skinned *nixie.
Lighten up, man.
Could you explain your last sentence to me? Thanks. |
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Golem
Joined: 18 Jun 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 3:25 am Post subject: |
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| Its absurd that you'd rather run a crippled version of an 8 year old OS than use a Linux distro. Its not like your going to play Crysis on it or do anything else for which there isn't a decent Linux equivalent. |
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