Happy XP experience - No SSD mod required

[timothyli]

Here is my way of running Windows XP without stalling. No SSD mod is required.

- Leave factory Linpus OS on SSD untouched.

- Upgrade RAM to 1.5G

- Boot AA1 from a USB stick installed with Puppylinux. (Press F12 during boot)

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=31298

- Install VirtualBox 1.50 on Puppylinux. (I find the newer versions of VB don't work that well)

- Create XP virtual machine VDI on an 8 Gig SDHC Card. Use FAT format. After install, turn off paging, restore. Install RAM disk drive z;, and set TEMP and TMP to point to z:. Install VB guest addition.

It is quite usable.

 

[jzx]

Exactly how usuable?

 

[timothyli]

I could watch youtube with no/minimum hesitation.

Actually, I got better performance running Virutalbox under Linpus than under Puppylinux, and from the SSD.

I followed these instructions to install Virtualbox in Linpus:
http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2133

 

[Guest]

tinyXP with some registry changes works great for me, fast and smoothly, watching divx no problems at all. Only problem is the bios version. Upgraded to 3114 --> AAO died on me, reflashed to 3109 (as mentioned on this board) came back to life and running as smooth but 10 degrees celcius hotter (64 instead of 55).