Re: windows xp worse than 2000????

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On May 3, 9:40 pm, "Daave" <dcwashNOS...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"surface9" <da...@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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I have used wondows 2000 for many years (I run some old DOS programs
still) and I recently got a brand new spiffy PC and decided finally to
upgrade to XP. But not until after I checked out my new PC using my
old standby -windows 2000 PRO w SP4.
It worked great and so much faster than my old 440bx PC.

But after I installed windows XP (sp2), everything runs slower,
sluggish, and even freezes up. What gives????? Several of my old dos
programs take forever to finally get started, and they freeze from
inputs that work just fine back on windows 2000. I am perplexed.
Also, 3dsmax started up in 30 seconds on the win2k machine, but it
takes a full 2 minutes on the XP machine - what gives???????

There are several other issues that suggest to me that XP just doesn't
messure up to win2k - am I doing something wrong here? My new PC is
2.8 ghz amd with 4 gigs ram and 160g sata drive - and it works like a
champ with win2k. Unless I can figure out what I am doing wrong with
XP, it'll be back to win2k for me. Any suggestions?

If configured correctly, your PC should work just as well with XP. And
there are reports that SP3 brings some modest improvement in
performance.

Did you use an XP upgrade disk? If not, you may want to try the dual
boot option that Rich suggested.

Did you perform a clean install or just upgrade your 2000 installation?
A clean install always guarantees success.

Installing SP2 (or SP3 for that matter) requires some preparation. See:

http://forum.aumha.org/viewforum.php?f=45

My XP cd is an upgrade only. So what I did was take a fresh h/d and
install win2k on it with sp4, but nothing else. Then I installed XP
on top of it, not as an upgrade, but as a "new system", and then I
installed SP2. That gives me a boot.ini where I get to choose which
system I will use. The only problem is that I don't want to install
my many applications on both win2k and xp on the same h/d, as that has
caused problems in the past (wi98se and win2k).

I installed all the drivers for the motherboard (MSI) from the CD, and
there are no yellow warnings in hardware/details, so, I really don't
know what else to do. WinXP justs runs a lot slower, and even crashes
on some of my DOS programs that run flawlessly on win2k. And I really
don't understand the long delay for 3dmax (2 min) to start up on XP -
that tells me there is something very very wrong with this system.
Wouldn't you get some kind of a warning or alert if there were
something wrong with a driver somewhere?
.

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