Recent content by Mercurie

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Check your running services to see if World Wide Web Publishing is running. If so, stop it and set it to manual and try the system properties again.

Disabling those items in XP is a good idea. I've found that, in general, Windows 2000 is more forgiving on aging hardware. But since it seems that this computer will be used mostly as a server and not as a workstation, any difference in efficiency between 2000 and XP should be negligible.

Is this what you're looking for? User Variables TEMP %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp TMP %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp System Variables for TEMP and TMP are both C:\WINDOWS\TEMP

Are you using a Volume License edition of XP? If so, you should be able to put the image on another computer, hoping that it doesn't go nuts trying to unload and reload the different hardware. Activation shouldn't be an issue. If you're using retail or OEM copies of XP, it may be more...

Windows 2000 doesn't have one built in. The Windows Firewall made it's debut in XP.

I'd go with Windows 2000 on that machine. It's the same basic core OS, just without the fluff that's in XP.