deanj20
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I got a pile of junked computers for free a while back from a customer. I've been fixing them up and selling them on Craigslist in my spare time.
This morning I came across an old Acer box - Pentium II@266MHz with 32MB RAM running Windows 95! I put 128MB in it, and installed Windows 2000 SP4. After I got it all patched up (disabled unneeded services, changed VRAM size, etc etc), I put StarDock Objectdock on it and installed Firefox and stripped it down using some "about:config" edits.
I was blown away. This little thing runs faster and looks nicer than some Windows 7 PCs I've worked on!!! Of course, it's because they have 482 unnecessary processes running on startup, a bazillion registry errors, and shot through with malware... but still, I was impressed!
Anyway, that's all. Just wanted to share my little feat of the day!
(Here's the ad: http://corpuschristi.craigslist.org/sys/1880513526.html)
This morning I came across an old Acer box - Pentium II@266MHz with 32MB RAM running Windows 95! I put 128MB in it, and installed Windows 2000 SP4. After I got it all patched up (disabled unneeded services, changed VRAM size, etc etc), I put StarDock Objectdock on it and installed Firefox and stripped it down using some "about:config" edits.
I was blown away. This little thing runs faster and looks nicer than some Windows 7 PCs I've worked on!!! Of course, it's because they have 482 unnecessary processes running on startup, a bazillion registry errors, and shot through with malware... but still, I was impressed!
Anyway, that's all. Just wanted to share my little feat of the day!
(Here's the ad: http://corpuschristi.craigslist.org/sys/1880513526.html)