Windows 2000 is a little bit less resource-intensive than WinXP. But if you disable all XP bells and whistles, the difference is very small. You'll be able to free a dozen MB, not much more. And some of the newer hardware doesn't work with Win2000! About memory, I find an AMD64 3000+ with "only" 512 MB RAM a strange, unbalanced configuration. It's a fast processor, you want to feed it data to work with, so you want RAM! Upgrade to at least 1 GB, not only Poser will love it. By the way, set your minimum page file size pretty high, I'd recommend at least 1.5 GB. If Windows has to adjust page file size during a Poser action, Poser will not only slow down, there's a good chance it'll crash. It might be interesting to monitor commit charge using Task Manager while working in P6. If the commit charge exceeds physical RAM, your system has to do a lot of physical swapping to disk, slowing down the system to a crawl. Additional RAM then is the only way to speed it up.

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