Win2000 Pro Vs WinXP - Which is faster?

[Vikas Panchal]

Hi Folks,

I need to know Which one is faster Win2k (SP4) or WinXP (SP2)? I like Win2k
professional as my regular OS to work on. What about the overall
performance? What are the advantages of WinXP?

Thanks,
Vikas P

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

Hi Folks,

I need to know Which one is faster Win2k (SP4) or WinXP (SP2)? I like
Win2k professional as my regular OS to work on. What about the overall
performance? What are the advantages of WinXP?

Thanks,
Vikas P

XP supports wireless neater than 2000.

XP boots faster than XP

2000 is quicker in day to day use but XP can be tweaked to match it if
you switch off the themes and glossy bits to the GUI

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

XP supports wireless neater than 2000.

XP boots faster than XP

oops .... should read "XP boots faster than 2000"

 

[Vikas Panchal]

Well, I dont need wireless. What about performance on AMD64?

I've recently bought AMD 64-bit machine with 2GB RAM. My main usage will be
running compilers, and other development tools on it. Though I am running
32-bit OS only on it. So, which one score on this platform? What about
Windows 2003 server? Some insight?

Thanks,
Vikas P

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

Well, I dont need wireless. What about performance on AMD64?

I've recently bought AMD 64-bit machine with 2GB RAM. My main usage
will be running compilers, and other development tools on it. Though I
am running 32-bit OS only on it. So, which one score on this platform?
What about Windows 2003 server? Some insight?

Thanks,
Vikas P

Why not look at

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/default.mspx

IT'd be much quicker being 64bit

 

[Vikas Panchal]

Why not look at

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/default.mspx

IT'd be much quicker being 64bit

Yeah, I know, but I would prefer for to have a dual boot for a while.
Win2000 pro or Win2003 Server for daily routine and XP64 for
experimentation. I am not sure whether all drivers I need are available or
not on 64.

-Vikas P

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

Yeah, I know, but I would prefer for to have a dual boot for a while.
Win2000 pro or Win2003 Server for daily routine and XP64 for
experimentation. I am not sure whether all drivers I need are
available or not on 64.

Best solution would be to use something like VMWare or MS Virtual PC for
your eperimentation/development use

 

[TomF]

Really?..I have experienced just the opposite. Our Win200 pro machines boot
much faster than our XP machines.


oops .... should read "XP boots faster than 2000"

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

Really?..I have experienced just the opposite. Our Win200 pro machines
boot
much faster than our XP machines.

Get a copy of the MS tool Bootvis

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/System-Tweak/BootVis.shtml

it examines your boot services/programs/files and reorganises it for
optimum boot times. Like for like systems should boot faster with XP

 

[Howard Brazee]

XP boots faster than XP

Only if you tweak XP to boot faster than XP.

I suppose W2K can boot faster than W2K as well.

But it's hard to pick an OS based upon this piece of information.

 

[JM]

quoting:

Really?..I have experienced just the opposite. Our Win200 pro machines boot
much faster than our XP machines.


oops .... should read "XP boots faster than 2000"

Isn't the boot time of XP smoke and mirrors? It displays the desktop
faster, but still loading alot of stuff blah blah blah.

 

[pscyime]

Hi

XP does boot quicker than 2k it is one of MS main aims(to get an os that boots quickly) to the point where they give OEM's cheaper price licences for XP if they meet certain criteria

From what i remeber there is like a 10 point scheme and if you hit all ten as an OEM you get really good price on licences, and two of the main things were the time it takes a machine to boot to the desktop and the time it takes it to resume from standby

In my experience 2k takes much longer than XP to boot, thats not to say its a damn fine OS

Also re XP 64bit there is a woeful lack of driver support at the min - still beta tho, When I installed it on my AMD64 notebook the weirdist thing was it actually detected the on board sound chip (which XP doesnt have drivers for) but nothing else - no NIC drivers (either wired or wireless) no modem drivers, there were ATI 9600 driver but wiht no NICs its useless to me

Just my 2 cents worth!!

Si