"Murgi" <srindler@da2.so-net.ne.jp> wrote in message
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> Somebody threw a Dell computer aut (Dimension, 566 MHz, Celeron, 128 MB).
I
> picked it up and installed Windows XP Professional. It works, but the
system
> is slow...
> Has anybody experience with this kind of  computer and XP?
> Is Windows 2000 considerably "leaner" and thus faster than XP? I don't
> really want to go back to Windows 98 or switch to other operating systems.

You need at least 256MB of memory and I would go for 512MB since memory is
so cheap these days. That alone will probably speed it up considerably.

Jeff