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Overbey - 22 Jul 2006 00:45 GMT

I need to down grade from XP back to 2000, due to performance reasons. Has
anyone done this? If so, do you lost your settings?
Thanks
doverbey@optonline.net

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Gary Smith - 22 Jul 2006 06:02 GMT

The only way you can go from XP to 2000 is to wipe everything and do a
clean install. You'll lose everything. All software will have to be
reinstalled, and you'll have to save all the files you want to keep and
restore them after the install.

> I need to down grade from XP back to 2000, due to performance reasons. Has
> anyone done this? If so, do you lost your settings?
> Thanks
> doverbey@optonline.net

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Columbus, Ohio

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DL - 23 Jul 2006 11:09 GMT

What performance issues?
If you can run win2k there should be v.little difference in winxp

> I need to down grade from XP back to 2000, due to performance reasons. Has
> anyone done this? If so, do you lost your settings?
> Thanks
> doverbey@optonline.net

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Overbey - 25 Jul 2006 23:00 GMT

Actually, when the box was running win2k, it only had 384m of memory with
twin 200meg processors. In trying to get XP to run, the memory was upped to
512m. The performance is a dog, Window graphic is slared, windows do not
open in a timely fashion, applications take for ever to start. If there is
something that I can do to increase the performance, by all means tell me
(reg tweaks etc...).
dudley

> What performance issues?
> If you can run win2k there should be v.little difference in winxp
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>> Thanks
>> doverbey@optonline.net

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DL - 26 Jul 2006 01:57 GMT

Presumably you checked your hardware manu. for updated drivers?
Set winxp to Classic View

> Actually, when the box was running win2k, it only had 384m of memory with
> twin 200meg processors. In trying to get XP to run, the memory was upped to
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> >> Thanks
> >> doverbey@optonline.net

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Overbey - 26 Jul 2006 23:34 GMT

Yes, have check all of that.
Thanks again will recheck to make sure I did not miss anything
Dudley

> Presumably you checked your hardware manu. for updated drivers?
> Set winxp to Classic View
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>> >> Thanks
>> >> doverbey@optonline.net

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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] - 23 Aug 2006 16:29 GMT

> Yes, have check all of that.
> Thanks again will recheck to make sure I did not miss anything
> Dudley

Your hardware should be able to run XP with no problems; XP is really the
same thing as 2k as far as the kernel is concerned; it just has more
features/bells and whistles/and the annoying Teletubbies/Fisher-Price
interface.

Check in msconfig for startup items you don't need, switch to Windows
Classic display (and even the classic start menu), and in control panel |
system | Performance/settings button, use "adjust for best performance"
rather than "let windows decide".

You might also do a disk cleanup & defrag if this box has been in use for a
while....just don't 'compress old files' when prompted in disk cleanup.
That's usually a bad idea.

>> Presumably you checked your hardware manu. for updated drivers?
>> Set winxp to Classic View
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>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> doverbey@optonline.net

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