don't even think of it. XP is very memory hungry. with no application running I have close to 128M occupied after boot. anything less than 256M, you'll find yourself swapping all the time as soon as you try to execute anything.

the only "remedy" is to pass your time with a regcleaner or some such, hunting for those dll's and other junk cluttering your system at startup.

serves you right for chosing bill's software!