IBM THINKPAD T22 please help.

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   hi everybody i recently purchased an old circa 2001 ibm thinkpad t22 laptop for $10 from a yard sale, its in vgc and seems to work fine but its so slow its unusable! OS is windows 2000 pro & spec is as follows processor speed 1ghz, ram 128mb & hard drive 32gb it also has a cd rom drive. is there anyway i could make this more useable like getting shot of the windows 2000 pro & replacing it with a linux or whatever? i have no idea what im doing when it comes to computers but i would like to learn a bit more.  so any help would be most welcome. many thanx.. 

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gensha Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 08 May 2011 Location: UK Online Status: Offline Posts: 1	Quote Reply Topic: IBM THINKPAD T22 please help. Posted: 10 May 2011 at 9:57am
	hi everybody i recently purchased an old circa 2001 ibm thinkpad t22 laptop for $10 from a yard sale, its in vgc and seems to work fine but its so slow its unusable! OS is windows 2000 pro & spec is as follows processor speed 1ghz, ram 128mb & hard drive 32gb it also has a cd rom drive. is there anyway i could make this more useable like getting shot of the windows 2000 pro & replacing it with a linux or whatever? i have no idea what im doing when it comes to computers but i would like to learn a bit more. so any help would be most welcome. many thanx..

jenners Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 01 June 2010 Location: Poole uk Online Status: Offline Posts: 55	Quote Reply Posted: 19 October 2011 at 12:28pm
	this is probably your best bet untill you are more familar with using Linux. http://osrevolution.com/os-review/pclinuxos-2009-2-review not the actual download link for it but shows you the screen shots and what it looks like,its designed to be Windows user freindly, ie people who are used to the layout of windows OS. here is the link for you for dl,not sure if the 2011 version will work on your specs, up to you to try that out, but i know the 2009 version will run fine on your specs. http://iso.linuxquestions.org/pclinuxos/ just boot from cd rom drive then should be fine booting into a linux setup. if you dont know how to get it to boot from dvd drive press any of f2, f12 or delete varies on dif ones to enter bios. once in there look for boot drive options and select cd rom drive as first option to boot from then save and pc will reboot, and cant remember but might need to press enter when it says on screen boot from.... then you should be in a linux setup and just follow instructions, but you want Linux to take all of the drive space so it wipes your 2000 o/s, unless you want to dual boot but that is a whole dif ball game.

barythrin Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 20 July 2011 Location: Texas Online Status: Offline Posts: 152	Quote Reply Posted: 19 October 2011 at 1:02pm
	Depending on the amount of applications loaded you may even look at reinstalling Windows 2000 (back up the drivers first). 128MB of RAM may also be a little slow for your processor so upgrading that will help as well. I recall us upgrading much slower systems (400Mhz) from NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 and until we installed 256MB of RAM it was pretty miserable. An easy and safe way to test Linux would be through a bootable CD distro/live cd. The slowness will mostly be while it extracts running programs to memory however if you can get a feel for how it may perform on the same system. Some other little things that make systems sluggish, too many programs running/spyware and a failing hard drive depending on the age of the system (you'll usually hear the drive spin up or down and click a few times like it's losing power for a bad drive)..it sounds kinda like some dropping a nail on a table. You could run a test program also to test the drive for errors or test the RAM to make sure they system isn't just having general problems.