i have installed (for testing purposes) the following walets:
1. Electrum, most of the releases from 1.9 up to the most recent ones. currently it has 2.7.17
2. Multibit 0.5.18 (was trying it for blockchain.info recovery and failed
![Tongue](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/tongue.gif)
3. bitcoin core version 0.13.0
the latest .Net framework that it has is 3.5 SP1 also has .Net framework 2.0 and 3.0
the windows itself is Windows XP version 2009 Service pack 3
have no additional stuff installed!
also my suggestion is instead of bothering yourself with an extremely buggy and terrible and heavy windows XP try linux. take a look at Puppy for a fun and tiny OS and Lubuntu for a light but professional OS.