Any reason Win XP Pro would run easier than W2K on an older system????

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Remember "Viper's XP tweaks site"??? (I used to use it to turn off services in services.msc) but the only one I can remember is to turn off "error reporting".

Uh, yea Viper's an idiot. At the very most all it'll save you is some bootup time so it's best to just ignore that crap.

Yea, I'd avoid his site. You can't improve much on the default XP install. I'd leave it alone to save you future headaches.

 

[redgtxdi]

Uhhhhh.........idiot?


One of the things I do to ANY computer I touch..............(first thing after fresh install).........is turn of "error reporting".

That has to simply be the most annoying plug in..........(next to either the "Tour XP" bubble, or "unused icons" routine).

But that's OK. At least I know nobody here in OS is above name-calling........😉

 

[Nothinman]

One of the things I do to ANY computer I touch..............(first thing after fresh install).........is turn of "error reporting".

That has to simply be the most annoying plug in..........(next to either the "Tour XP" bubble, or "unused icons" routine).

Turning something off because you don't want to use it and turning it off because you think it'll give you a performance boost are two separate things. And BV describes all of the things on his site as optimizations which just isn't true unless you're benchmarking bootup speed and even that should be minimal.

 

[redgtxdi]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Turning something off because you don't want to use it and turning it off because you think it'll give you a performance boost are two separate things. And BV describes all of the things on his site as optimizations which just isn't true unless you're benchmarking bootup speed and even that should be minimal.

Check out your PF usage in TM....

If you're using less memory..............well................you're using less memory.

😕

And if it improves boot speed, even better! 😉



Back to more useful information..................


The 80 updates *AFTER* SP2 did not seem to burden the system any more than previous. Since my install was an SP2 cd, I can't say whether or not "Pre SP2" would've made a difference or not, but the system is still plenty useable so I think I'll just leave it as is to facilitate automatic updates and a fairly worry-free environment.

😛

 

[Nothinman]

Check out your PF usage in TM....

If you're using less memory..............well................you're using less memory.

# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2015 1955 59 0 0 384
-/+ buffers/cache: 1570 444
Swap: 4095 596 3499

Unused memory is wasted memory. If the service isn't being used it'll be evicted from memory eventually so even though it'll take a bit right away after booting it will eventually become inconsequential.

And if it improves boot speed, even better!

Not really, booting should be a rare enough occurance that it doesn't matter.

 

[redgtxdi]

Gotta keep reminding myself..............don't feed the trolls!

😎

 

[Nothinman]

I'm not trolling, if you think that stopping a service will give you any sort of measurable performance increase then you really don't understand how the system works.

 

[ShawnD1]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Remember "Viper's XP tweaks site"??? (I used to use it to turn off services in services.msc) but the only one I can remember is to turn off "error reporting".

Uh, yea Viper's an idiot. At the very most all it'll save you is some bootup time so it's best to just ignore that crap.

Ha, I found this out the hard way. Following his instructions, and turning off 90% of your system services, will give literally no performance gains in games, moving files, creating zip files, general internet browsing, etc.

If you want your old computer to be fast, make sure nothing boots at startup. I mean literally nothing. Turn off that language bar MS Office has. Ghost the drive when it works properly, then run without antivirus protection. If/when a virus happens, just restore back to where it was. You won't need a firewall; simply having a router is enough to stop most worm attacks.
I'm still using a 350MHz Pentium 2 with Windows XP. It's about 9 years old and it doesn't look like it will die any time soon 😉

 

[VirtualLarry]

It would be interesting to conduct a survey of all the malware floating around that is actually actively capable of infecting a Win98se box. Somehow, I doubt that number is very high. As long as you have a router or a decent software firewall, I don't see the big problem with putting a win98se box on the net. Perhaps there are still old IE exploits, in that case, use Firefox instead as a browser.

 

[AllGamer]

i find XP to run better on any older rig than Win2k

except the ones with very little RAM

less than 128 MB

in those rigs, then yeah Win2k is better

but if the system has at least 256 MB then XP is still the better choice