> On W2k it takes minutes to get de xdm login screen, while eating a lot of > CPU time. Everyting you do from then is slow and CPU expensive. > The W2k boxes have SP2 installed.
What is SP2? I have experienced speed problems with win98 which went away after - disabling virus scanners running in background like McAffee - disabling ATI Graphic utilities (disable and remove from registry) which do next to nothing but eat up to 85% of the resources. Hope this helps Edi
