The best thing to increase performance under WinXP is to go into Control Panel->System->Advanced->Performance Settings ->Visual Effects and set it to "Adjust for best performance". This won't get rid of all of the other background processes, but it eliminates the eewi-gui and makes it more like Win2K, improving overall performance greatly. First thing I do when installing/reinstalling WinXP. :) Still, there seemed to be a speed advantage with Win2K, which may be related all of these new background processes and services, some imparted from SP1/2 or the myriad of security updates. ;)

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

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