I am running Windows 2000 Server on my Dell Inspiron 7500 with 128 MB RAM, and it works great. However, if someone wants to buy me more RAM for Christmas... < g >

>I'm no Windows expert but I think you've got a severe memory limitation here. I'm surprised Windows 2000 Server runs at all in 128MB - the "recommended minimum" for Server & Advanced Server is 256MB, and as always more is better. See http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/guide/server/sysreq/default.asp.
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>FWIW I am running Windows 2000 Server on a machine with 512MB RAM and its performance is excellent.
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>BTW this is almost surely the reason your shutdown is slow, too (per your other thread).