I am using Windows XP on a Optima PC with 256mb of RAM and a 80 Gig HDD
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Sounds  strange.  Try right formatting the drive by right clicking on it.  This should work.
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you need enough memory. check your drive under my computer
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Very easy to find on the internet:\n\nhttp://www.qdigrp.com/qdisite/eng/Products/A5-133.htm\n\nRam: Maximum would be 768 SD Ram\n\nHard drive space is limited depending on what operating system / file system you are using. If you are using NTFS then almost any size hard drive will be recognized. If you are using an older operating system such as Windows 98 and have Fat or Fat32 installed then you will have troubles recognizing over 80g. The way around the old Fat limitation would be to partition your hard drive in partitions of less than 80g or try to find a patch from Microsoft that addresses the issue.\n\nPartitioning large harddrives is always a good idea though, as it limits defragmentation and keeps your hard drive running longer and smoother.
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Your hard drive has little to do with it as long as your hard drive is larger than a few gig.\n\nWhat you need to worry about are the other computer specs. Unless it has 256mb of ram i wouldn't really try using XP on it. I would highly recommend atleast 512mb. The processor speed shouldn't be too much of a factor because i'm assuming (if it came with ME) that the processor is atleast 800mhz.
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format your c drive and do a clean installation of XP... make sure you have the drivers for your monitor...
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A few tips for getting your  PC to run a little better.\n\n1. Right click My Computer\n> Click Properties  \n>Click Advanced tab at the top.\n>In the Performance box click settings,\n>Click Adjust for best performance and Apply.\n2. In the same window click on the Advance tab.\n>in the Virtual Memory box click Change,\n>In the Paging file size for selected drive click Custom size,\n>You can put what you want in the initial size, depending on how much hard drive space you have, I put about 2000-3000, it is not going to work like upgrading RAM, but it does help, when you've determined how much to put in click OK, then apply. You might have to restart your computer.
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The memory you have is not sufficient if you have Win XP.\nIf you have integrated video on your computer and not a video card you have less than 200MB which is just sad. Memory is dirt cheap for 512MB do yourself a favor and get it.
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What kind of operating system are you currently using?  Is it XP 64 bit?
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Look up your system model on the support section of the manufacturer's page.  There will be a lot of technical jargon in the RAM section that you will probably not understand.  Copy it down and take it to a store that sells computer accessories (Best Buy, Circuit City, CompUSA, etc) and show it to the salesman.  If you want really good performance, tell him you want low-latency RAM instead of the budget high density crap.  Until then, increase the size of your paging file and hope for the best.  You can also disable unnecessary startup entries and background services.  Many people will tell you to use msconfig by going to Start - Run, typing "msconfig" then go to startup tab, this is not quite accurate.  To accurately disable the startup you should disable it from within the settings of the program itself.  This is to be sure that the registry entry is not recreated on the next reboot.  To disable background services that you don't need, go to Start - Run and type services.msc.  Disabling unnecessary services here will free up a lot of resources - probably more than anything else you could do to the system minus upgrade.  Also, you should optimize your caches.  If you can perform these tweaks effectively, you may not even need a RAM upgrade, but it's still recommended if you have less than 512MB RAM in XP.
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It sound like your system respond is too slow. \n\nTry to check what is the available memory left on the system. If you are running on Win XP, click on Alt+Ctrl+Del once. Choose Task Manager, click on Performance, Check on phyical memory. If you left 50MB and below, you need to upgrade your memory, or uninstall some of your software to give space for other problem.
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VERY GOOD IDEA!  ME is crappy.  Just be sure not to forget Service Pack 2 on your new XP machine.  I would recommend you start with a clean install.  Good luck.
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you have more ram than my desktop and my laptop put together you have enough memory
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After looking up your model, it only supports a MAX of 160MB of RAM.  That's not enough to run Windows 2000 or XP and for it be relatively usable.  In addition, you will need several GB of free space to install.  I recommend you look into a new laptop, even Dell has ones that are only a couple of hundred dollars that are better and will cost the same as the upgrades you would have to consider on your current model.
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windows 95-98 can get away with  32-64mb of ram windows 2000 can do it with 64-128mb  and windows xp needs a minimum 256mb you would need more ram for all operating systems the more you put on the computer and try to run these are not the minimum system req  but a beefed up version
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This is the Desktop Computer forum, not the Antiques forum ;-)\n\nIE is bloated, but that may not be all that's eating your memory.  I've run Win98SE on 32MB - slow, but still mostly usable.  Check for other processes eating memory. \n\nAnd upgrade to Firefox :)\n\np.s. "formatting", as suggested by another answer, is NOT the answer.
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Windows 2000 and Windows XP should be fine if you not intent to run heavy program like gaming. But recommand you upgrade your RAM to 512MB, it make your programs run smooth.
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the processes are to heavy for the amount of RAM you have... get more RAM. x