uxtheme.dll is still loaded even is you dissable the service :/
besides 2k is just faster when in use
specs:
axp 2000+
ecs k7vta3 3.1
1gb ddr pc2100
kyroII video 64mb
soundblaster live plat
acard ata 133 card
80gb ibm hdd
20gb maxtor hdd
48x16x48 cdrw
56x cdrom
52xcdrom
52xcdrom
thats what i was running then still have it till tomarow when i get my l7s7a2 mobo and 1700+ tbred(oc the helll out of that baby) and tr2tt m2 hsf
all these things work grate with 2000 and 2003 xp would randomly fail to ini the vid card ms said it was a knowen issue and they where working on it
in reality xp was a rush job to make people who dont know crap about computer feel better becouse there os dose everything for them
theres a wizzard for everthing hell theres probbly one in thereto whipe ur butttt for ya to
IMHO if you cant do something with windows 2000 then maby you should just get a mac they do everything for you just like menny people seem to want
i traded 2 reetail copys of xp pro for one retail copy 2003 well worth the trade IMHO least 2003 dose what it should when you tell it to
also no stupid system restore agin if you cant fix ur owen screw-ups maby you should use a mac since there alot harder to mess up
done get me wrong i dont like mac think there pretty pointles my self would rather have my athlon then any mac out there
maby mac if they would all you to run 2003 on it natave insted of mac os
2k or 2k3 are the only os's that will touch my system no more xp pro/sp1 crap after 7.5 months of constant irratation i went back to 2000 and wow its soooo much faster then xp
then i got my free 2k3 rc2 disk and tryed that WOW what a dif then tryed the full version of 2k3 and was verry impressed once you tweak it (5-15 min) it loads in like 2/3 the time xp dose never slows down on shutdown time
no toys'r'us feeling to the os out of the box none of the bloat xp suffers
in short its what xp should have been but wasnt