[TheStickman]

I'm curious how you have your hardware setup so that win2000 runs faster than XP does. I have a P4 512 ram and a GF-ti4200 vid card with about 220 gigs in HD space and win2k runs great on my machine but not nearly as fast as XP Home or Pro does. My machine is primarily used as a DAW but I do some gaming and movie watching as well as basic surfing.

Again, just curious.

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

My machine is primarily used as a DAW but I do some gaming and movie watching as well as basic surfing.

Hmmm. Do you ever have any "incompatibilities" with 2000 and games? While most of the newer games list Win98/ME/2000/XP on the box, I seem to recall a while back that 2000 had some problems with games and drivers. That's the only reason that I haven't upgraded from ME to Win2k...

[dennisw]

All I can say is with 1.7ghz/512mb XP seems to run slower than Win2000. It was so irritating I stripped away unneeded MS services and other services and fluff that were bogging it down. Used these tweak guides:

WinXP Tweaking: From Reformat to Relax
WinXP Tweaking: From Relax to Righteous