Jun Qian already answered your question as to why Win2k is slow. XP will
also likely be slower than Win98 because of all the extra drivers. My
own experience is that indeed, XP does boot faster than Win2k, but not
as fast as Win98. The most dramatic difference on my own system, though,
is the shutdown time. Win2k took forever it seems to shut down. XP pro
does it about as fast as Win98.

Peter
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-----Original Message-----
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? George&Mary
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