What is the minimum requirement for RAM for Windows XP?

Answer 1

For Home Edition: 128MB of RAM which is a bare minimum.

For Professional Edition: 256 MB of RAM

For MCE: 512MB to 1GB of RAM

In my opinion, its just best to have around 512MB of RAM for good performance with XP.

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Depending on what version of XP your talking about, i.e.:

256MB is not enough for XP SP2 - 512MB which is a bare minimum, for multi-task processing minimum is 1GB

Answer 2

Depending on what version of XP your talking about, that amount of ram required changes.

For Home Edition: 128MB of RAM which is a bare minimum.

For Professional Edition: 256 MB of RAM

For MCE: 512MB to 1GB of RAM In my opinion, its just best to have around 512MB of RAM for good performance with XP.

According to Microsoft, the absolute minimum is 64MB, which would disable some features. A minimum of 128 is recommended.

Answer 3

Microsoft has said 512MB, but that is totally crazy . . . you could run XP, maybe, but only the smallest programs.

The practical minimum is 1gb, but if you're doing photos or graphics, the full 3gb would be practical.

Answer 4

This applies for Windows XP Home eddition:

233 MHz processor or faster

min. 64 MB of RAM

min 1,5 GB space on your HDD

Bear in mind that these are minimum requirements and that it is better to be little up otherwise it does not have to work smoothly.

Answer 5

The minimum is 256 MB, the recommended is 512 MB. If you really want your computer to run fast get 1 GB.

Answer 6

The least RAM on which Win XP can run is 64MB

Answer 7

The minimum requirement is 64 MB which is required for windows XP.

Answer 8

64mb, 128mb recommended minimum