David G can give you more details about what's going on behind. I will
however give you a basic clue. When you boot up, win2k will load many
services, much more than win9x, also, win2k will apply security policy first
too. Which, they all take times.

You can't do nothing about the load time, basically.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "George&Mary Skokan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 12:55 AM
Subject: [PCSOFT] Win2k vs XP


> Have been reading the thread and have been wondering about the Win2k
startup
> time.  I haven't tried XP yet, but it seems like 2k is taking a long time
to
> start up and I have heard that XP starts pretty quick.  Don't know what is
> going on behind the Windows Professional 2000 screen, but have tried every
> key I can think of to get rid of it(like esc in Win98), but nothing.
> Anybody know what takes so long for 2k to boot up and is there anyway to
> speed it up?

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