For something like that I wouldn't install Windows. Install a thin and light version of linux with a lightweight window manager (such as Gentoo with XFCE4) and use Samba to run your fileserver. Your winblows boxes won't notice the difference over the network, and with the lower overhead of Linux over winblows (192MB of SDRAM would be a bear on WinXP and nominally tolerable in Win2000) you will get better performance. While you're at it, you could also dump your webserver on the box under Apache2.
Windows XP was never meant for use as a fileserver platform ... it was meant as a candy coated GUI for Windows 2000 with a bit more driver support. Windows 2000/XP is a client side OS, not server side. Linux, OTOH, is designed to be what you make of it.
With the Gentoo side, you could get away with just bootstrapping, emerging the basic system, customizing your kernel for Samba and filesharing, and then dropping XFCE4 and Samba on the box. Nothing more would need to be done practically, and it would run extremely fast. My 700 Mhz Athlon at home runs as fast under XFCE4 as my overclocked Barton box under WinXP Pro. Food for thought.
Word of warning: installing Gentoo is not for the faint of heart. I've been learning that lesson very well this past week.
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