To be fair, I haven't played with RC2 yet but RC1 was a bit of a pig at startup...I guess you're right, though, who cares once it's up.

>>You will HAVE to .... ever seen the load speed?
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>Who cares about load speed? When I run NT I load my machine and it doesn't stop running until I decide to shut it down... can't say that for a Win9x installation.
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>Win2000's resource requirements are about the same as WinNT 4 and it feels a bit more snappy. There have been some UI performance enhancements and servers benefit from better memory management.