Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 06:56:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Win2000 boot & performance on 110
Well... so far I'm extremely happy with this
installation of Win2000 on my 100 with a newly
installed 233MHz 110 MB.
But has anyone learned how to tweak W2K to get a
noticeable and significant improvement of the
performance of their 100 after the basic OS
installation?
Thanks to Philip for all the great information on his
website about getting it all set up.
As I recall, Philip was using the original W2K release
when he wrote the support info there. He had
mentioned it taking over 4 minutes for his 110 to
boot, and was happy that hibernation worked around
that, and got the system to wake up in about a minute
if I recall.
But with the SP3 copy of Win2000 I've installed, I
find that the system only takes about 80 seconds to
reach the Windows desktop where some simple functions
are available pretty much immediately. And then maybe
another minute for the HDD to finally stop working on
loading the OS at a total of about 2:20 for booting.
On performance, I'm really happy to find I can run all
of the components in Winamp simultaneously that I
couldn't on the old 70:
* Shibatch in_mpg123 replaygain playback from APE tags
* Gapless playback
* Equalizer
* Cover art video plugin
* Visualizations
* Lyrics plugin
The Shibatch RG playback is what I really was after,
as it reads RG values written to the MP3's APE tag. I
was having a hell of a time with the older RG plugin's
external replaygain.csv file constantly being
corrupted on the 70 in Win98. Everything else I
pretty much had working, though I never really
attempted visualizations on the 70, tho' now I'm
guessing some of of the less demanding ones may indeed
be possible.
But the system in just falling short of supporting the
equalizer in FooBar2000. And I'm wondering if it's
going to be at all possible to tweak the W2K OS to get
that little added power.
I haven't yet tries the suggestions Philip mentioned
on his support page. But after all of my failed
attempts tweaking Win98 on the 70 for the very same
purpose, I'm a bit doubtful about whether or not
something other than monumental will achieve the
needed affect. Even 98Lite didn't help 70 playback in
W98. And the free XP/2KLite download doesn't include
removing MSIE, about the only thing I'd thing removing
would gain significant resources.
Again, has anyone successfully improved performance of
W2K noticeably on their 110 after the basic
installation?
Thx,
Matt
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