>>>You should be running Linux! :-)
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>>>Johnf
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>>I am, there's always one virtual machine running Ubuntu, and a little laptop (8" screen) with Mint.
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>I managed to get (well....almost get) Windows 10 working on one of these things: http://www.myviliv.com/ces/main_s5.html I got it all working - except I can't get the touchscreen to work - which kinda sucks. Needless to say with it's whopping 1.33Ghz processor and 1gig or RAM it's not very fast ..haha - but I kinda like the thing because it fits in my pocket.

If it boots off a flash drive, you can boot pretty much any linux off it and give it a try - I guess linux has better support for slightly obsolete hardware.

Recently I had replaced the motherboard processor etc, and the guys in the shop just put one 1T disk aside as it wasn't recognized by windows at all. They tried a few things and then the disk started clicking loudly, so they just put it aside for me to see what I want to do with it. I was buying a 2T disk anyway, so I guessed I could plug this disk via USB box that I have. I already have one kind-of-suspect disk plugged in there, and it's chugging on fine for five years now without a glitch, supposing this is an undemanding environment. So I put this disk there and voila - windows still didn't see it. So I booted Ubuntu off a DVD, and guess what, linux saw it right away. It also saw both monitors correctly, brand model refresh and resolution, out of the box. So I copied what I needed from that disk and later gave it to my daughter as a potential building block for a machine for the grandchildren (that is, I exported that disk into the US :). And the machine was blazingly fast that way.

Booted into windows again, the disk was kind of visible (saw the folders but not the content or whatever), and even ATI's official latest and greatest drivers couldn't recognize the right monitor.

The case of the little Acer Aspire is even funnier. Got it off Craig's in 2008 or 2009, with XP on it, and used it on and off for reading - it's small enough that I can hold it while lying on the couch, yet big enough that I can read on it using the same glasses I use for work. I found that suspend is the magic word - it was the perfect bookmark keeper, it would open at exactly the place where I left it, if it wasn't taking a minute or so to get there. Then it developed some glitches - network just wouldn't (something about going for automatic IP in an impossible range which wouldn't work, and switching to manual would hold five minutes)... so I just scrapped it and installed linux Mint. It now wakes from suspension in four seconds, a seven or eight year old little machine. And never loses network.

So... you know, I'd give that a try if I had a funny, slightly old, box to play with.