Windows 2000 - Father's PC

[Lepard]

My father's computer is as follows:

P4 1.5Ghz
384mb PC133
Geforce 5200FX
Onboard sound

I installed my copy of WinXP (retail) but noticed that it was a bit unresponsive. Not necessarily slow but just not how it should be. I have an old Win2000 CD/Key somewhere in the garage and I was thinking of installing it.

How should I go about it? In the sense of security. Should I just install SP4, do the Windows Update thing, install the spyware protection.

Would Win2000 be better suited for this PC? or should I just leave WinXP?

 

[imported_LoKe]

You shouldn't be having a problem with XP. I've got XP running on a 944mhz P3 with 128MB's of ram. 😵

 

[postmortemIA]

that config should be enough for XP. disable services that are not needed to free some more RAM.

 

[bendixG15]

WIN2k all the way........

seriously now.....
If win2k serves his needs then use it.
WinXP needs more "resources" = slower running.

 

[Lepard]

I have installed XP on computers slower than this. I remember back in the day I had this setup running WinXP (granted it was the first release):

P3 550Mhz
256MB PC100 Ram
Voodoo3 (then Geforce 2 TI)
Onboard sound

But honestly I dont know what is wrong with this XP installation. Instead of 2K, for now, Ill try to nLite my XP cd and disable things. It just seems very unresponsive, maybe its just me, lol.

 

[Cerb]

I have had experience w/ P4B 2.4 in 845 boards, and they just feel slow. Not terrible in benchmarks, and fast at a few things, but just feeling unresponsive in general--and this is with CPUs 50% faster 🙂. The P4 is being starved by the RAM.

 

[Evander]

"Proformance Increase through My Computer"
Start > Right Click on My Computer and select properties.
2: Click on the "Advanced" tab
3: See the "Perfomance" section? Click "Settings"

basically a no-fluff interface, much like 2K