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daveyK Super Nerd Picogroup Offline (Retired) - Elevation: 525 feet Posts: 2,357 Hellertown, PA, USA Pennsylvania USA Gender:	Win 2000? Jun 5^th, 2009 at 7:36am Hi all, I have an old laptop running Windows 2000 with 512mb of RAM. The RAM is maxed out. I could load XP but I believe Win 2000 uses less resources. Will PICO 6 work on this old dog? Thanks, dave
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Tom Roberts Autonerdz Administrator Picogroup Offline Autonerdz Founder Posts: 8,598 Olympia Washington USA Gender:	Re: Win 2000? Reply #1 - Jun 5^th, 2009 at 10:14am Dave, Not likely. XP, Vista, Windows 7 only You need at least a gig of RAM with XP. That old thing is probably USB 1.1 too. USB 2.0 is required.
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daveyK Super Nerd Picogroup Offline (Retired) - Elevation: 525 feet Posts: 2,357 Hellertown, PA, USA Pennsylvania USA Gender:	Re: Win 2000? Reply #2 - Jun 5^th, 2009 at 10:31am Hi Tom, I was thinking that I might leave Win 2000 installed and give that a try. Other than hooking up a Pico is there a way to see if the old dog has USB 2.0? It must have USB 2.0. I just loaded my wireless mouse which has a plug-in to the USB and it worked. Thanks, dave
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Reply #3 - Jun 5^th, 2009 at 10:51am

Dave,

Win 2000 is not supported but I have seen it run on Win 2000. Hard to say what might happen Undecided

Most devices are USB 1.1 compatible, including PicoScope. It will work with 1.1 but will fall down when in high speed streaming modes. So we say 2.0 is required.

It's easy to check if your PC has USB 2.0. Go to Device Manager and look in the USB section for anything that says 2.0, or 'Enhanced'. If you find it, then it is 2.0. If not, it's 1.1.

You can get there from computer properties/hardware/device manager.

The RAM will also not be sufficient.

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daveyK Super Nerd Picogroup Offline (Retired) - Elevation: 525 feet Posts: 2,357 Hellertown, PA, USA Pennsylvania USA Gender:	Re: Win 2000? Reply #4 - Jun 5^th, 2009 at 11:01am Tom, I will check the USB. I guess that old dog just don't got enough moxie Thanks, dave
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Tom Roberts Autonerdz Administrator Picogroup Offline Autonerdz Founder Posts: 8,598 Olympia Washington USA Gender:	Re: Win 2000? Reply #5 - Jun 5^th, 2009 at 11:40am I think you would save a lot of frustration just getting another PC. Any modern PC will do PicoScope. Believe it or not....even one of those $300 Acer netbooks will run PicoScope 6. That's more than can be said for the SO Verus...
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daveyK Super Nerd Picogroup Offline (Retired) - Elevation: 525 feet Posts: 2,357 Hellertown, PA, USA Pennsylvania USA Gender:	Re: Win 2000? Reply #6 - Jun 5^th, 2009 at 12:31pm Thanks Tom. I had this laying around and thought I could put it use. Hey, it may work as a doorstop Thanks again, dave
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