It doesn't freeze solid and require a reboot. I've never seen a blue
screen. That sort of thing.
2000 has never lost network mappings for me.
Well all I can say is that are very very lucky. It does it all the
time. I must admit that I thought that XP would be the same, but it
isn't. It still shows the red icons, but if you open the drive it
connects first time, no problems. Most people just live with the
problem. No one else that I've spoken to does NOT have the problem. I
can only assume that you are very very lucky.
XP runs slower on both my laptop and desktop, XP claims to boot faster
but it really doesn't, it merely allows you to begin working while it's
still booting.
Well, there you are unlucky. I've only had one machine that was slower
and changing the network card fixed that. I assume you upgraded the
hardware when you tried XP? Like any other OS upgrade, XP needs more
hardware resource. In particular, it needs more RAM than 2000. I
usually chuck in 512MB RAM.
And the dozen or so similar reasons would be?
Can't remember them all but the range of drivers is better, better DLL
handling.
I've run BOTH XP Pro and XP Home and was delighted to return to 2000.
XP is nothing but 2K with tons of added stuff I don't need and product
activation which I don't want.
Of course if you are prejudiced against it, there's no help. I started
with XP thinking that it wouldn't be worth the hassle, but after a
while using it, I wouldn't go back to all the hassles of 2000.
I'll stay with 2000 until I'm forced to convert to Linux which I
REALLY, REALLY don't want to do...
I run Linux as well at home, and look after a few linux servers at
work. It's not that bad.
Cheers,
Cliff
