From: "R. G. Newbury" Received: from mxout3.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.167] verified) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTP id 339799 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:57:16 -0400 Received: from mxin1.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.175]) by mxout3.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GLP3q-000KJn-JR for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:57:15 -0400 Received: from tomts24-srv.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.187]) by mxin1.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GLP3p-000AoC-Vb for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:57:14 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.97] ([65.94.129.45]) by tomts24-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20060907185712.POSW8423.tomts24-srv.bellnexxia.net@[192.168.1.97]> for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 14:57:12 -0400 Message-ID: <45006B87.4000805@mandamus.org> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:57:11 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060313) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: eCS or OS/2 on T60 [Was: Re: Next wave of portable device architecture] References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mail-Handler: MailHop by DynDNS X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Jan van Wijk wrote: > Hi Carl, > > On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:28:33 -0400 (EDT), Carl Gehr wrote: > >>> I have found that for a Windows-XP that is actually USED over a longer period, >>> something like 6GB is about the minimum, unless you do a lot of tweaking and >>> removing unneeded stuff, or move lots of data to other partitions ... >>> >>> Regards, JvW >> In order to have anything resembling a usable Windoze2K, I had to go to >> 12GB. > > Yes, but that depends on what kind of applications you have and use. > > On a dedicated machine that I use for web-browsing and photoshop only, > I have been running Windows-XP in 6GB for a few years now ... > > On my T42, that has the same plus a few other applications, and is > used more, I also have something like 12GB (which is 75 full :-) If you are going to be crazy enough to go web suring running windows, you should at least know enough to clear out the hidden files which M$ keeps of your surfing history. Go to: sillydog.org/mshidden.php and read the article which explains all about M$ hidden files and why your system's free disk space keeps shrinking. Geoff