This may go a bit against the grain, but after replacing windows 2000 with XP at work, my computer actually seems faster. I know, I know, performance tests have shown that it really isn't, but what matters to me is how it feels. And I also know that just clean installing the thing probably would have sped my computer up anyway, but even on this ancient box, everything works just fine.
Most unexpectedly, my network throughput is dramatically better. A simple search on our sourcesafe tree, for example, used to take 15 minutes. Now it takes 2 or 3. Other tasks are similarly improved. I can't say for sure why.
As far as Microsoft's theme limitations, a quick trip to http://www.themexp.org to get style xp and I've been playing around with themes WITHOUT getting the cheezy plus pack.:)
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This may go a bit against the grain, but after replacing windows 2000 with XP at work, my computer actually seems faster. I know, I know, performance tests have shown that it really isn't, but what matters to me is how it feels. And I also know that just clean installing the thing probably would have sped my computer up anyway, but even on this ancient box, everything works just fine.
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Most unexpectedly, my network throughput is dramatically better. A simple search on our sourcesafe tree, for example, used to take 15 minutes. Now it takes 2 or 3. Other tasks are similarly improved. I can't say for sure why.
As far as Microsoft's theme limitations, a quick trip to http://www.themexp.org to get style xp and I've been playing around with themes WITHOUT getting the cheezy plus pack.