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Arlen Holder wrote:

In summary, if you have an XP machine off the net, you might consider
booting to the Hirens XP which seems to work as well or better than the original XP did.

That isn't the way I would 'do that' -- where 'that' is breathing some
life into some old hardware which is lying around fallow.

I have such an old low resource machine which I inherited as a
hand-me-down from a friend. It has an 'original' *legitimate* OEM WinXP
on its hdd; it is a Dell Inspiron 1300 laptop w/ 600 MHz Pentium M and 1
G of ram, BIOS 2006. Its battery doesn't work, but its screen does.

6 y ago I equipped it w/ a lightweight graphical linux as a dual boot;
that was a Mint 17 XFCE which runs fine, but is now out of its support lifetime. I haven't gotten around to replacing that linux w/ a
currently supported v., but I have tested some options such as current
MX Linux, which also runs fine.

The biggest advantage of the linux over the OEM XP are that it runs a
modern browser.

In the case of your machine, a linux would also be a better choice for
it because:
- the Hirens wasn't 'intended' to be used as a OS except for its role
in troubleshooting
- it certainly wasn't MS's 'intention' to be providing an outdated old
OS for old hardware

Since your machine has 2G ram, it has even more linux options than my 1G machine; likely the 'bottleneck' restricting choices would be what its
old graphics are, which we don't know at this point.




--
Mike Easter

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