{"id":201,"date":"2009-03-08T02:34:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T09:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/?p=201"},"modified":"2009-03-08T02:34:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T09:34:15","slug":"windows-xp-needs-more-than-256mb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/windows-xp-needs-more-than-256mb\/2009\/03\/08\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows XP needs more than 256MB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back, if someone asked me &#8220;How much RAM do you need to run XP?&#8221; I&#8217;d probably say 256MB is fine, but 512MB will make things run great. That was a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward a few years, and well I only use Windows when I have to, usually in a virtual machine. But my brother wanted to borrow one of my old laptops I no longer use. I thought the old T40 I have would be OK. It only has 256MB of RAM. It had linux on it, but I had the IBM Windows restore DVD set, so I thought I&#8217;d just put XP back on it.<\/p>\n<p>Well, sure its taken me the better half of a day to just install the thing from this DVD set, but the more amazing thing is just how amazingly slow it is. I am gobsmacked. XP was never this bad I thought. Sure IBM&#8217;s DVD set includes lots of rubbish like Norton Antivirus and a bunch of IBM this\/that and whatever software. And I am slowly removing most of it, but it is just really bad. With virtually no apps running, I ran Windows Update and it gave me warnings about it running out of virtual memory while trying to install the SP3 update. Thats just silly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back, if someone asked me &#8220;How much RAM do you need to run XP?&#8221; I&#8217;d probably say 256MB is fine, but 512MB will make things run great. That was a few years ago. Fast forward a few years, and well I only use Windows when I have to, usually in a virtual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}