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XP vs. Win2k

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Anonymous
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XP vs. Win2k

Hello group,
Just received a new Dell 3.06GHz box running WinXP professional, all other
details exactly the same as one I already have, that is running Win2k. (1GB
RDRAM, Gloria III, SCSI 15k rpm). We did some tweaking on the XP box to get
rid of this XP gimmicks, so it looks like Win2k now.

I do not see any grafic speed difference between the two.
The XP box is by far slower on booting.

Just wanted to let you know.
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Regards,
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Leo Laimer
Bad Ischl - Austria
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Message 2 of 12
rllthomas
in reply to: Anonymous

To be honest Leo some of the benchmarking I have seen shows XP to be slower than W2K. I know people in the group feel other wise but I suspect it has a lot do to with your specific hardware and which drivers are the most optimized, the W2K ones or the XP ones.
Message 3 of 12
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Interesting, ... I see the exact opposite on booting and shutting down, but then my Win2K
machine has 2+ years of installing and uninstalling and tweaking etc on it, and the XP box
only has 1+year.

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"Leo Laimer" wrote in message

> The XP box is by far slower on booting.
Message 4 of 12
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

My XP Laptop boots 2x faster than my Win2K Desktop. Shuts down much faster
too. Operating speeds seesm to be about the same.

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Sean Dotson, PE
http://www.sdotson.com
Check the Inventor FAQ for most common questions
www.sdotson.com/faq.html
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"Kent Keller" wrote in message
news:740214B5C9BC590D2F28DA62AD9F139F@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> Interesting, ... I see the exact opposite on booting and shutting down,
but then my Win2K
> machine has 2+ years of installing and uninstalling and tweaking etc on
it, and the XP box
> only has 1+year.
>
> --
Message 5 of 12
MechMan_
in reply to: Anonymous

Are you connected to a network? The network might have something to do with the difference in boot/shutdown times (network card, network driver, etc...).

MechMan
Message 6 of 12
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

I have win2k at work and "winxp home" at home. I'm
just how "Slow"  winxp home comparing to winxp professional.

 


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To
be honest Leo some of the benchmarking I have seen shows XP to be slower than
W2K. I know people in the group feel other wise but I suspect it has a lot do
to with your specific hardware and which drivers are the most optimized, the
W2K ones or the XP ones.
Message 7 of 12
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

I mean I'm just wondering ...

 


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I have win2k at work and "winxp home" at home.
I'm just how "Slow"  winxp home comparing to winxp
professional.

 


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To
be honest Leo some of the benchmarking I have seen shows XP to be slower
than W2K. I know people in the group feel other wise but I suspect it has a
lot do to with your specific hardware and which drivers are the most
optimized, the W2K ones or the XP ones.
Message 8 of 12
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

All other factors being equal, they should be about the same. The basic OS
is identical. There may be a few services on Pro that actually slow it down
a bit more than Home.

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Sean Dotson, PE
http://www.sdotson.com
Check the Inventor FAQ for most common questions
www.sdotson.com/faq.html
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"chris" wrote in message
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> I mean I'm just wondering ...
>
> "chris" wrote in message
news:0EDE5D30396E2A67CD1B5E312C85E742@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> I have win2k at work and "winxp home" at home. I'm just how "Slow"
winxp home comparing to winxp professional.
>
> "rllthomas" wrote in message
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> To be honest Leo some of the benchmarking I have seen shows XP to be
slower than W2K. I know people in the group feel other wise but I suspect it
has a lot do to with your specific hardware and which drivers are the most
optimized, the W2K ones or the XP ones.
Message 9 of 12
dan_mayers
in reply to: Anonymous

WinXP Pro and XP Home are effectively two different operating systems from IV's point of view. If IV will run at all on XP Home, (don't know, haven't tried it) it will run badly.

XP Home does not have many of the memory managemnt/multiple windows/multiple task features that XP Pro has.

Hope this helps.

Dan
Message 10 of 12
MechMan_
in reply to: Anonymous

That's new news to me. Mind showing me where you read that because I apparently need to brush up on my knowlege on the difference between the two.



I've run IV on both WinXP Pro & Home and it runs the same on both as far as I can tell.



MechMan
Message 11 of 12
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Sorry Dan, you are wrong.. Several of us run Inventor on XP Home with no
issues whatsoever.

While XP Pro does have some extra memory management utilities (and
networking features) the OSs are so similar it's difficult to make a
distinction.

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Sean Dotson, PE
http://www.sdotson.com
Check the Inventor FAQ for most common questions
www.sdotson.com/faq.html
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"dan_mayers" wrote in message
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> WinXP Pro and XP Home are effectively two different operating systems from
IV's point of view. If IV will run at all on XP Home, (don't know, haven't
tried it) it will run badly.
Message 12 of 12
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Yes, both boxes are connected to a 100Mbit network. Both were right out of
the Dell shippment box, setup with same "not very experienced" (read:
myself) Windows knowledge.
But I diddn't intend to complain about the slow booting, but was wondering
that there is no speed gain in grafik performance in IV (John Bilton and
others stated, that XP would be noticeably faster).

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Regards,
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Leo Laimer
Bad Ischl - Austria

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