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by graemeduncan

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Does anyone have a definitive grasp as to what minimum spec that W2000 runs at on the desktop?

I know what the official line is but is this true?

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by petemcc

Yes you can run it at less than minimum specs for processor. Personally I know a P100 will work (133 min. recommended). Memory is another matter, I?ve heard it will run on 32MB but I haven?t tried it. RAM is cheap now (except SIMM) so go with as much as you can there. At or below minimum specs performance ain?t gonna be much, esp. if you?re running resource intensive programs. You do need to have the minimum HDD space to install it. Another concern if you are installing in an older system may be hardware compatibility. There is a tool on the CD that can check your system; winnt32 /checkupgradeonly or you can download the W2K readiness analyzer from microsoft.

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