Help with best windows for under 1gb ram

[snakie]

I have old vista(my five year old girl's laptop) with about 800mg ram -and it's running ever slow .Can anyone give advice ,please:wheather I should go for win 7 or xp.Which would be quicker?

[pooface]

I have old vista(my five year old girl's laptop) with about 800mg ram -and it's running ever slow .Can anyone give advice ,please:wheather I should go for win 7 or xp.Which would be quicker?

What processor?

Most likely, XP will run better tho...

[punisher]

just like poofface, id recommend XP as it will probably run faster than windows 7 would on an older laptop

[dymebox]

No doubt XP. But Ubuntu?

[silverfox0786]

wouldnt use linux as a starting op system XP will be fine but no higher

[snakie]

Thanks everyone. I will stick with XP

[Rimmel]

Win7 will run fine if you disable stuff like prefetching and other non necessary services (theres a lot you can disable).

[silverfox0786]

for that setup i wouldnt go higher than winXP

or even winXP MCE

[pheonix]

lol you do realize that prior to today the last post in this thread was 7 months ago ?

any hoo to put my two pennies worth in the pot.

either go with good old rock solid windows XP as that OS still has quite a bit going for it even though it's getting on a bit now, or try ubuntu yes it's linux but it's dead easy to pickup and go with even for a windows user like me.

[silverfox0786]

oh well revive old threads

as pheonix says

i brought a netbook designed for and installed with win7 starter

it was as slow as my wife when i ask her to do something

i installed ubuntu and it just sped up everything worked really well

as i gave it to my wife she didnt like ubuntu so i installed XP on it and the speed is brill must better than the sluggish win7 starter it was supposedly designed for