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Windows 2000 Slowdown
Took a day or to getting my old Laserjet to work, but it printed so very, very slow, hum. Before we go on, running a dual boot, Intel Yup. Same here. I never did get my old LaserJet to work worth a damn under Linux. It worked, but the lack of support for its native fonts made for extremely slow printing and lots of

Athlon 1.4 gig
I don't have NT or 2k to test NTFS with another op sys, but even if I did that is a lot of work just for a test, to install a new op sys, drivers and all, as well as that I would have to install an extra HD for the other op sys since I don't want to make my primary C drive a dual boot drive.

XP/2000 IS RUNNING SLOW!! 98 is fine???
My problem is extremely slow net traffic with the three workstations with the SMC cards. Example, copying an 85mb file should take about 30~40 seconds, The three workstations dual boot Win2000 Pro and NT 4.0 workstation sp6. Booting into NT 4.0 sp6 improves copy times to the 30~40 second range.

Wine 20030115, Mandrake 9.1 - Hangs on WinApps install and run
I want to keep Win95 on it and use dual boot to switch between Linux and Win95. RHL 7.3 or maybe 7.2 would be a reasonable choice for that system, provided it's not exposed to the The 7.3 installations I did and helped with at a local high school last spring were extremely slow when attempting anything GUI-ish.

HELP! Horrible network (ME too)
Look at some of the newer PCI cards with Aureal chipsets. b) LS120's are extremely slow and aren't used that much. If you want to exchange files with other You would be better off buying and learning to use NT4 or Linux, with maybe a dual boot to DOS/Win95 for legacy games. Max Attar Feingold m...@cornell.edu

BIOS stuck in neutral
AOE will run extremely slow under NT with Voodoo3. When I had Matrox Millenium II/Voodoo 2 combo I had no problems with AOE. AOE uses DirectX 3 and used 2D card (MMII). I was expecting the problem to be fixed in this release of drivers but it was not and I am dissapointed. Why don't you just dual boot and use Win98

OS/2 Frequently Asked Questions Rel. 2.0i (1 of 2)
If you have a dual-boot system (Win 9X and NT/2000/XP), then it is best you perform the operation from Win 9x. But even in that case, the newly cloned drive .... Without a reboot after a format, file access to the volume will be extremely slow --- the XXCOPY action would take literally hours rather than minutes

x-mame runs really slow
I thought it was samba, but then we discovered that the lotus Domino software on the server was extremely slow to the desktops. .... Mind you, -> I am still -> talking about the same machine here! Both Windows 98 and -> Windows 2000 run on -> the same machine because I dual boot them. ] -> -> [2000/08/01 18:23:39,

Help, ArchiveXL80 + Adaptec 1542b + OS/2
DirectDraw games such as Age of Empires run extremely slow on NT 4 (SP4). I haven't tried Win 9x. And another comlaint. I still dual boot to Win 3.x sometimes (development support needs :)). Well, there are no Win 3.x drivers! If they release a combo card they should have thought about Win 3.x. Sigh.

Super Slow net performance with Win2000 and SMC cards
Raymond Christian Cabal wrote: I dual boot win95 and Linux (RH6.0). I recently installed both mame32 for win95 and x-mame, for Linux. For some strange reason x-mame runs extremely slow. In win95, mame32 runs pretty decently though. I have a Cyrix233. Any ideas what could be causing the slowdown?

Video Cards & P5A M/B ---- Lock-ups & Problems ...
For whatever reason I have a dual boot with W98 and W2000 options. OK, so far no problem. When I boot to the Win98 OS, stuff goes wrong. The OS runs extremely slow. I can not seem to make any changes by re-installing W98. Any thoughts? Thanks Hi, Just a thought, but as the Win98 setup is affecting Win2k,

NTFS File System EXTREMELY Slow
Please do not read this as a criticism of Apple - they are moving as fast as they can, Unfortunately, that's extremely slow. This is a superior solution to the PPCP mechanism anyway, in that you get both OSs available together, rather than the dual-boot configuration you would have with vanilla, off-the-shelf

Netcraft's 50 longest uptimes: where is Windows 2000?
If you have trouble installing the game under OS/2 and you are trying to install the game on an FAT drive, boot up plain DOS (via dual boot or the Boot Manager) and install it there. .... I have found that this combination is extremely slow with any sound support, and so I have been playing it without sound.

Linux GUI is verrrry slowwww???
They are extremely slow, especially on directories with lots of files. I couldn't get the font as small as I wanted, there didn't seem to be an analogue to 9)Dual boot is very nice, but the OS/2 side of it should have a graphical front end. It looks amateurish running in a box, kind of like those TTY boxes you

<Poll> Windows 2000 Pro vs. Windows XP Pro
Rich Czuba rich...@nospamcomcast.net microsoft public windowsxp general microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support i have a new sony laptop (p4, 2ghz, 512mb ram) that came with xp home. i repartitioned the drive and added a dual boot and xp pro. the xp pro boot is extremely slow. when it gets to "loading your

The Results Are In: XP vs Mandrake 8.1
don d...@hawktech.net vmware for-linux general The Guest will run natively on this machine (currently set up dual boot linux & XP) I have run 98 on this machine in vm but it is extremely slow. I previously set up 98 on a sony SR7k witch is the same as the c1vn as far as hardware except it has the PIII 600 instead of

Slow printer
My pc is extremely slow and freezes (requiring a hard boot) 0 - 4 times daily (depends on the weather??) I have a PIII 600 copper(something) with 640 mg memory, 2 - 7500 rpm drives, dual boot ME & XP(pro) - XP off of the D. My question is how slow should my pc be. When I boot it takes at least a ~minute to get to

Terminal Services are extremely slow!
For DOS windowed/fullscreen apps that were heavy database it was extremely slow. When many processes were running, most of them would wait while Stacker did it's thing. I used dual boot, when I switched into DOS, Stacker was just about invisible, causing almost no perceptible degradation. Les.

Browsing shares from XP EXTREMELY SLOW
BOOT TIME: Microsoft has come a long way from extremely slow boot times with XP, this is by far the fastest GUI-Based OS I've ran, less than 12 seconds cold boot! Mandrake has adopted Microsoft's previous boot-time blunders with nearly 90 seconds of waiting. WINNER: Windows XP Boot time: Windows XP 15 sec Mandrake

Dual Boot Problem
snip -- From personal experience with W2K, the available version based on Release 3 of the beta and the "gold" code, one cannot have a dual boot machine with ANY other OS DOS support, particularly for WordPerfect is extremely slow, much slower than in W9x. Just how much of an issue is DOS supports these days?