M$ OS w/out buying it?

[Skiz]

Also, is there any reason why you want XP over 7?

Hardware limitations, I guess.

[chinaski]

You mean, stripping down windows components?
Nlite for xp, vlite for Vista/7.

Yes, make it more minimal. Thanks for the tip.

And why the heck you keep referring to that POS winXP?
It's a OS dated from 2001, FFS.

I do not use M$ systems habitually.
It's for my brother's crappy notebook, FYI.

[Cabalo]

So don't waste time with winXP and try a already stripped down version called Tiny7.
Personally, I don't like premodded OSes, but this can do the trick if you're not willing to waste much time. Runs way smoother than XP in my notebook (meanwhile swapped it to Ubuntu Netbook Remix, and I'm very pleased with it so far. Some minor bugs, but nothing that I couldn't find a workaround)

[Tv Controls you]

Yes, make it more minimal. Thanks for the tip.

And why the heck you keep referring to that POS winXP?
It's a OS dated from 2001, FFS.

I do not use M$ systems habitually.
It's for my brother's crappy notebook, FYI.

Crappy notebook has xp performance written all over it.

tiny 7 uses 147mb of ram, where as xp performance uses 32mb.. (which is pretty amazing for windows 7)

They are both great options for an os.

Xp isn't really outdated its the most supported os still to date. Windows 7 runs a version of xp in the background to make it compatible.....

I only recommend windows 7 at all if your running a 64 bit system usally.

Xp is alot easier to manage if you ask me and i gaurantee you will not run into any compatibility issues.
Although I run a 64 bit windows 7 on my custom machine and I absolutely love it.