re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP?' Tuesday, May 9, 2006 at 8:38 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Traderhut (1 messages posted) Microsoft claims that XP is faster, and until I read the base post here, I'd not heard anyone else say that. I had a Gateway computer (PIII/700) preloaded with Win 2000 Pro. I "upgraded" to XP, and lost the ability to read DV (Digital Video) from a firewire cam corder to the disk without dropped frames after 1-2 seconds. The I/O system could no longer keep up... Then I tried to play a DVD.. Not able to initialize something.... I moaned and used it that way for a year or so.. But when giving the machine to my brother, I reformatted it back to Windows 2000 - Now everything worked again! Granted, I *only* had a little less than 500 MB of Ram - good grief! That's enough to do just about everything you could possibly want to do in.. or *should* be... My new machine, a 1.7 Ghz Pent 4M - RUNNING XP seems slow compared to the 700Mz PIII... Ok, well, they seem about the same speed... The PIII boots faster (of course, the faster a machine is, the slower it boots... As people find things that the machine can do while it's booting....) Granted, I only have 1.5GB of RAM in the P4 machine :-) With that much RAM, XP *should* be able to cache everything I've ever read from the disk and the disk should power down from non use... Just my two cents worth... Oh, does anyone have a test site that shows speed tests between the two OSs? -Chert http://www.traderhut.com Written in response to: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP?' (Ed: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 7:01 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'What's the difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP?' (Ed: Tue, Feb 19, 2002, 7:01 pm) re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP?' (db_one: Tue, Feb 19, 2002, 8:54 pm) re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP?' (Me: Wed, Feb 20, 2002, 6:34 am) re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP?' (Robert: Wed, Feb 20, 2002, 7:11 am) re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP?' (Tedd Powell: Fri, Oct 4, 2002, 8:45 am) re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP?' (Louis: Sun, Feb 22, 2004, 1:40 pm) re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP?' (james: Mon, Feb 25, 2002, 7:03 am) re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP?' (BSlapshot: Thu, Jan 23, 2003, 10:32 pm) re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP?' (Mike: Thu, Feb 6, 2003, 11:13 am) re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP?' (Allan: Sat, Jul 20, 2002, 8:20 am) re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP?' (A simple minded fellow: Mon, Apr 21, 2003, 9:08 pm) re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP?' (Traderhut: Tue, May 9, 2006, 8:38 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum