why win xp startup is quicker

[Ananth the Boss]

how is the windos xp startup is quicker than windows 2000 and other win
os.

 

[Guest]

See the following article. May have all the answer of your question.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/evaluation/whyupgrade/performance.mspx

Let us know!

 

[paulmd]

how is the windos xp startup is quicker than windows 2000 and other win
os.

Don't tell me you believe the XP installer advertizing... I'm not
entirely convinced it is.

 

[Ben Hetland]

Don't tell me you believe the XP installer advertizing... I'm not
entirely convinced it is.

Oh, but he is right, actually! XP /is/ much quicker to start up than
w2k. It also requires much less resources after the startup. So on the
same machine the user will get a feeling that it is much slower running
under Windows 2000 that if he did the same things under Windows XP.

I actually see this often myself, because we have an older test machine
here with multiple boot, including both of the above alternatives. Both
OS are cleanly installed/reinstalled except for eTrust antivirus which
is added, so I'm pretty sure it's due to OS differences rather than
anything else.

That doesn't answer the answer /why/ it is so, though...

 

[paulmd]

Oh, but he is right, actually! XP /is/ much quicker to start up than
w2k. It also requires much less resources after the startup. So on the
same machine the user will get a feeling that it is much slower running
under Windows 2000 that if he did the same things under Windows XP.

I actually see this often myself, because we have an older test machine
here with multiple boot, including both of the above alternatives. Both
OS are cleanly installed/reinstalled except for eTrust antivirus which
is added, so I'm pretty sure it's due to OS differences rather than
anything else.

That doesn't answer the answer /why/ it is so, though...

Optimization of code is pretty likely. If you're willing to spend the
time to do it by hand, you can speed things up considerably.