xp pro / nlite build for basic laptop - ibm thinkpad 240

[wertert]

Hi All

Noob here. Joined up today and been searching...

I've got an old laptop - very basic. No CDROM. 128Mb p2 and I want to use it for basic web browsing etc. It originally was installed with win98 and it ran ok but I want to load xp onto it. I've managed to get xp pro installed but it runs like a dog. I was also looking at something called tinyxp but this only seems to work off a bootable cd - not an option for me.

I am now thinking that nlite may be the answer and I can build a xp kit to install that will run within the 128Mb of ram available. Does anyone have any thoughts on the best way of minimizing the RAM footprint ?

thanks in advance

Jeff / wertert

[jmbattle]

Use a driver backup tool to backup the existing XP drivers for PCMCIA, audio, AGP, NIC, video and battery devices.

Then, fire-up nLite and remove *everything* from your XPsp2 distribution.

Format, install XP, the backed-up drivers, Firefox, and Bob's your uncle.

Cheers,

James

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