Roughly 400 MB to 500 MB of hard drive space after a clean installation. What Was Removed?

Computers from the late 1990s (such as Pentium II or III systems with 64MB of RAM) that choked on standard Windows XP could run MicroXP flawlessly.

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Around 300 MB to 400 MB of hard drive space.

Gamers utilized it as a secondary, dual-boot OS purely to squeeze extra frames out of resource-heavy games.

Homebrew arcade builders use this operating system to boot directly into arcade emulation software frontends without displaying standard Windows desktop elements. Security Warnings and Risks

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