🚀 go-pugleaf

you upgraded ? that might be the problem

try format c: (after backing up) then install win2k fresh

also, id say your page file sizes are too big, should be amount of RAM+12 or
so mb

also remember that win2k is a very powerful operating system and does expect
'more' from a system

cheers

anyweb


"PhilG" <ITp.guerney@jktech.com.au> wrote in message
news:97heng$t7j$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au...
> We have two identical Dell Precision 410 Workstations each with one Intel
> PIII 600MHz processor on a dual-processor capable board, 256MB RAM and one
> IDE 28GB hard drive and each with a CD-R and a CD-RW drive. Twin machines
> delivered together about a year ago and wired-up identically in the box
and
> with identical BIOS settings. Both use DiskKeeper to defrag the drives
every
> early morning. Both have large page files on the data partition (~800MB)
and
> the drives are only about 30% full..
>
> Except we upgraded one of them to Win2000 (and first flashed its BIOS to
the
> next level A13 as required in the upgrade pack provided by Dell).
>
> We run image analysis software that often loads large files (50-100MB),
> number crunches them then spits out large results files to disk. My staff
> kept saying the Win2000 machine was slower than the other one
> [NT4/patch6/BIOS A12] but I did not really believe them until we ran a
> test:. All other programs unloaded, network disconnected, a batch file of
10
> jobs was created using the same input files on both machines. The batch
job
> took 15 minutes on the NT4 machine and 50 minutes on the Win 2000 machine.
>
> THREE TIMES LONGER.
>
> I have run benchmark software and both machines run all normal memory and
> disk benchmark test perfectly well and return numbers consistent with the
> specifications. (Except that the random disk access RW test comes out very
> low, but that is the same on both machines).
>
> I am at a loss as to where to look for the problem slowing down the Win
2000
> machine unless it is the obvious  - Win 2000 itself. Any suggestion before
> we re-install NT4?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> PG
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