Quote Originally Posted by nihil View Post
... 512Mb is not a lot of RAM, and you can be sure that XP in normal mode will be using pretty much all of it within a few seconds of loading.
Sorry to jump in - I have an old laptop, designed for Windows 98, which has 128MB RAM and it's running XP Pro SP3 quite happily! Granted, it's only in a test domain that I've set up at home. I'm amazed just how well (and quickly) it runs.