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It's difficult to provide definitive reasons why the two computers perform the
way they do without knowing something about the network itself.  Altogether too
many problems can occur from misconfigured or malfunctioning network equipment.

I recently replaced a pair of older P3 systems running Windows 98 with a couple
of P4s running XP Pro.  The old P3s ran like a slug when accessing a shared
Quickbooks data base on a Windows 2000 server.  The P4s run much faster.  Why?
Faster processor?  Yes.  More system memory?  Yes.  Faster local hard drive?
Yes.  Other?  Damned if I know.  The XP Pro systems log in a lot faster, mostly
because their desktops are not yet cluttered with icons and they are not as
loaded down with memory-resident bloatware.  File copying to and from the server
takes about the same amount of time.  Go figure... Ben Myers

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:05:38 GMT, ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com (Phred) wrote:

>In article <lv0l01dae4lilm6mvsv471bbg1oejrl3id@4ax.com>, William P.N. Smith wrote:
>>dgrnyc@yahoo.com wrote:
>>>I have a friend that has an old white box computer with a 133 MHz AMD
>>>K6-2 CPU, 128 MB of RAM and a 20 GB hard drive.
>>
>>Kinda marginal, but it ought to work.  Depends on your definition of
>>"acceptable", but it should be better than Win98...
>
>Until recently I was using a system in another place that was pretty 
>similar to the OP's, but it had an Intel processor (233 MHz IIRC) and 
>a 3 GB HDD (which was usually pretty full :).
>
>It was usable for the sort of stuff I do routinely, but was 
>v..e...r...y   s..l....o......w to do a network logon, which was 
>rather a PITA at times as it often took 10 or 12 minutes!
>
>The "new" machine has a much faster processor, 512 MB RAM, and a 
>"huge" 20 GB HDD.  (All that space! :)  But it's running XP Pro.
>
>It logs on quickly (< 1 minute typically) but to my surprise it's 
>actually v..e...r...y   s..l....o.......w copying files to a network 
>drive and deleting files on the network.  *Much* slower than the old 
>machine in fact.  So I put this down to some sort of housework that XP 
>is doing that 2K Pro didn't bother itself with(?).
>
>On balance, I prefer the fast logon and can tolerate the slow file 
>management now that it's expected and I can plan around it.
>
>Cheers, Phred.
>
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