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I upgraded my 650MHz 600X to an 800MHz CPU, and it's still annoyingly sluggish running Windows XP, even with 768MB RAM and a 5400rpm disk. (I use it mostly in a dock.) I've been told that Windows 2000 is no`tably faster on the 600X, and I wonder if anyone else has had the same experience? I can't justify the expense of replacing this machine right now, and I'd like to figure out some way of making it more usable for at least another year.

Thanks for any advice!

I would say Yes though there's another option that involves some work and tweaking on your part: trim XP.

This involves changing some settings to shut off the eye candy, disabling unneeded services expecially resouorce intensive ones such as indexing service and system restore, plus there are at least a handful of registry hacks that may help in your situation. Finally, trim boot times using msconfig then bootvis or PerfectDisk(free demo available). I expect you would be able to get XP to run approximately as well as a default load of 2000 will, though it won't ever be a speed demon.

If all that sounds like too much trouble there are 3rd party products that will automate much of that work. XP Lite is the first one that comes to my mind.

My 600E came with WinXP and was very sluggish and I upped the Ram to
192 mb and that didn't help much so I wiped it and installed 2kPro and could not be happier. Mine only has a 367Mhz cpu so you may not have as
noticable increase in speed/ happiness. I dont like XP anyway- have had it on many very fast machines and it still ran slow- I also just don't like the interface and feel of it.
Chris