If you are not exactly rolling in money and you have an aging Windows XP system that is on the edge of being obsolete, you may want to try downloading Pear OS.
I have between 512mb and 1gb of RAM and it runs great. It is based on Ubuntu Linux but doesn't have the same demands on video cards apparently since I couldn't get Ubuntu 11.10 to load on my desktop machine but 11.04 worked fine.
Anyway, if you have used Linux before you won't have much problem other than hunting around for things you know are there somewhere. If you have only used XP you will be a bit lost for awhile but the good news is that you won't have to look for drivers like on XP and you will have 2012 software for free.
This guy gives an accurate review of Pear so have a look if you don't want to trash your old PC. I have it installed on a Pentium 3 Dell laptop with 512 Ram and a Pentium 4 HP desktop with about 700+ RAM and both perform better than XP. They found my wireless and it worked without issue while the same machines required a download of the driver and windows installer to get the same wireless working on XP. To find a lot of the applications that you need, look in the finder of all places and not the launcher which launches apps. That is my big tip. Oh yea, you can just run it from the DVD drive to see how it work with out installing!
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