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Ron_Jeremy

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I've been using NT4 (WS and Server) for almost 2 years now and recently installed Win2K, for something different.
I am curious about the performance hit I've taken and don't know if this is normal or a problem with my hardware/software setup.
Win2K is incredibly slow to surf the Web. A friend of mine came over while I was surfing and asked if I had gone back to dialup after watching me crawl from site to site.
Even clicking around in Windows Explorer is quite noticably slower.
I reinstalled on another (much faster) system with the same results. I am very dismayed. I reinstalled NT4 on one of my PC's and it flies now.
Any help available to keep Win2K on my other machine?

System Specs:

ABIT BF6/433Celeron/384Mb/UltraWideSCSI
SUPERMICRO P6DGE/2xPIII850/2048Mb/Ultra160


Cheers,

Ron_Jeremy

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all i can say without knowing more about your system and possible misconfiguration is that, no, its not normal. given the system specs on both machines, win2k should run very nicely. you should expect much better performance than you are apparently getting. win2k loades a little slower than nt, but runs as well if not better.....good luck

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lhgpoobaa

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a performance hit of that size doesnt sound normal.
most people experience a minor decrease.
on my p2-300 i say virtually none running general apps.
and my dialup modem actually worked better (than win98) its bandwidth was fully utilised almost all of the time.

gotta be some bug/conflict. got all the latest modem drivers installed?

try setting up your tcp/ip and dialup settings again.
thats all i canthink of atm.

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