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Has microsoft done anything good for the computer industry?
Aloone_Jonez:
MarathoN,
That's quite normal for a well run Windows 2000 system, I notice that you're not running a memory resident anti-virus either - the biggest memory waster on most Windows systems. My tweaks are nothing major, they just disable the crap Microsoft added when they went from Windows 2000 to XP.
How much memory does your XP box use?
jtpenrod,
I have never implied that Windows's performance is anywhere near Linux's, anyway if I wanted to run Windows on that crappy old 64MB machine I'd use NT 4 and MS Office 97. What non-MS software could you run on it that'd give you a full Office suit? You might be able to get away with OO 1.1.5 but it'd be horribly slow and I know there's AbiWord but that's just a word processor not a full Office suit.
MarathoN:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---MarathoN,
That's quite normal for a well run Windows 2000 system, I notice that you're not running a memory resident anti-virus either - the biggest memory waster on most Windows systems. My tweaks are nothing major, they just disable the crap Microsoft added when they went from Windows 2000 to XP.
How much memory does your XP box use?
--- End quote ---
Ah I see, yeah well I don't know if mine is well-run or not, I don't tweak anything at all... :eek:
Erm, I used to have XP installed on this machine as a triple boot (with Slackware 10.2) but now I just run Win2k, I wasn't using Slackware so I didn't see the need for it to be installed, if my windows install ever fucks up I still have the Slackware CD to help ;)
XP was way too slow, I would never run it again on this machine (or ever :D), I don't see ANY benefit WHATSOEVER of running XP over 2000, I didn't even use XP (once for the Battlefield 2 Demo, but that's IT)
So apart from that, I'm happy enough with Win2k to say :fu: to XP :D
Aloone_Jonez:
The only benefit I can see is security you can set up restricted accounts and SP 2 comes with a firewall and execution protection feature that makes it harder for viruses inc=stalling themselves and causeing damage. If you don't access the Internet or you have a good suit of 3rd party protection products or an external hardware firewall there's no point in running XP. Oh I forgot one more thing, XP will be supported by MS for longer than Windows 2000.
Lead Head:
my computer with 512MB has about an average of 250-314MB free ram under XP, the same comp with 256MB ram only uses about 120MB ram
Jack2000:
the more "services" you leave on
the more unstable the system gets!
i have maby 3-5 proceses runing at my win98
and a #$@#$!-ilion more on XP i mean wtf ?
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