I had win2k on an amd tbird 800mhz w/ 256kb on cache, with 256mb sd-133 ram, and a 133mb/sec HDD running at 66mb/sec do to the old Bois. I just upgraded to a new athalon board and now I’m running a 2 × 256mb pc 3200 DDR, a 2500+ AMD Barton 512kb cache, and the hard drive is running at 133mb/sec and a fresh XP home edition format/fdisk/install. The Unreal Tournament 2003 bench used to be low 6fps, average 13, and max of 36. Now min 22 fps and average of 35 with max over 100… but I SWEAR, desktop wise its half as fast! It takes SOOOO long to install software, and I think It just took 15 minutes to unistall a 1.8gb game… granted thats big, but 15 minutes… whats the deal? I know my old system on Win2k was twice as fast at simple desktop procedures like word, installs, opening I. explores, new windows etc…. Does anyone know if XP is is logging the install where 2k didn’t? is there a way to turn it off?