Diet WinXP
The only reason I have WinXP (via Parallels) on my mac is so that I can use MS Internet Explorer to access my work email via web-mail. Unfortunately the webmail we use does not support any other browsers. Anyway, for this single purpose the standard Windows XP build is too fat so I appreciated this tip here which I shall use this weekend to make myself a Diet WinXP build to use instead of what I currently use.
“When you’re installing Windows in a virtual machine or on old, slow hardware, you want the leanest, meanest and fastest-running configuration possible. Most of the time, you want the best from your operating system, including all the bells and whistles. Other times, you don’t want the default, bloated Windows installation, with every single built-in feature slowing you down. Luckily, whether you want to put Windows on a diet in a virtual machine or you want to get Windows up and running all snappy-like on older hardware, you’ve got a handful of excellent and free options at your disposal. Let’s take a look at a few ways to trim down your Windows installation so that it takes up less space on your hard drive and eats less RAM while it’s running.”
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