Speed issues in XP Home

I recently installed XP home on my computer and I hace noticed a considerable difference in speed. Before installing, I have XP Pro, so I know XP will run fine on my computer. I have 384MB of RAM on a PIII 733 with a 40GB 7200 Western Digital HD and a Radeon 7500 64MB graphics card. Can anyone tell why XP Home runs slower than XP Pro?

 

Ice
You might run your machine through here they are pretty good at diagnostics. Pay attention to the yellow flags.

 

I dont reccomend pcpitstop at all.


Don't recall the MG member, but we were comparing his system to mine, and mine was considerably faster than his, but pcpitstop, while giving me a higher score, listed many of his benchmarks to be exactly the same as me.


For example, with him on 56k, and me on T1, we had the same bandwidth results.

 

Maybe your T1 was just having a bad day

 

Yeah ok, LOL.

 

PC Pitstop gathers more information than I want sent to ANYONE.
If you run their full test suite and carefully look at the results you will be scared by how much information they gather about you. I tested our "sacrificial" system and got no real results, but PC Pitstop sure knew a lot about my system.
I set up my own computer so it will NOT run at PC Pitstop in the hopes other sites cannot gather that same information.

How about you just go back to XP Pro?

 

Well, I actually own XP Home.....the thought has crossed my mind though. It angers me that I bought a product that eats all my system resources.

 

XP Home and Pro eat the same resources.


Arguably, XP Pro eats a little more.

 

Very true, XP Home and Pro are the same code. There are features in Pro that are not in Home so it should use more resources. I was just suggesting the easiest course of action - do what worked last time.

Wierd things to check:
BIOS - did some ghost reset it for you?
AV - you have only one installed? try disabling it
AUTO UPDATE - turn it off on all programs
LET IT SIT - Windows may be trying to do something, let it sit on overnight
DRIVERS - use the same drivers you ran for Pro, be sure they are all in there and loaded in the same order you used for Pro

 

Actually DOA, I posted that in response to the original poster being under the impression that Pro uses less resources than Home.