Here is a inteteresing thing that I learned last night thru experimenting in windows XP
I am by no means a newbie around Windows boxes, and have built all of my boxes personally. Starting with a 486 DX66 in 1992 to what I use today.
What Im going to talk about today is the sneaky manner in which Microsoft monopolizes your bandwidth.
I have never had better then around 15-20 kb/s downloading in iRC, and on my nice 1.5 mbps rated downstream ADSL this made me wonder.
So, I began to shutdown a ton of xp services, defrag, delete all temp file and services i just dont need. I looked into theindex.dat, into the "hidden files" and all the automatic features, and glitter of Windows XP, and found I dont use or need half this stuff.
I goto IRC, downlaod a file.. and it receives at 175 kb/s
So I think, ok it's a fluke, right?
I try with someone else, minimum stable at 75 kb/s
And its been like that ever since.
My next step is of course to try out Linux Mandrake. As the only girl in my computer help channel I feel a little intimidated by non MS Operating systems, so any advice and guidance is appreciated!
Thankyou!
[ May 26, 2003: Message edited by: Emiko ]