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Now I know there have been lots of threads about the title, but I just wanted to claify something.
Now recently My XP Pro install had been getting slower and slower due to network traffic. I download to a NAS drive i bought from this fine shop some time ago, and when ever i watched something in WMP, it was jerky as hell until I set the priority of the program higher. One of the reasons it seems was the fact that SVCHOST.exe was running, taking a lot of the resources up and despite looking on the internet, i couldn't a real sloution to this aside from viruses, of which there are none on my system. After all this the laptop (which I leave on) seems to need a reboot after about 2 days.
Now, out of desperation, I installed Windows 2003 Enterprise Server on my laptop to see what would happen when trying to do the exact same things as i did under XP. The difference was staggering. CPU usage came down, the NAS responded better, playback under WMP10 (wish i could install WMP 11 on W2K3) was smooth, despite other things occuring taking up network bandwidth.
The only real downside to the install at the moment is My MS Webcam no longer works. all other things work on it and until Vista catches up with printer drivers and my fave podcast program Juice works on it, as I tried the OS already thanks to work, and the laptop was stable then too, I may stick with W2K3.
Unless, which is the challenge to you good people, is there a way to make sure that XP doesn't suffer as badly for network usage, and is there something which can be done about svchost.exe taking up too many system resources? Or could there be another issue, perhaps hardware at play here, that would affect XP but not so much W2K3?
Now recently My XP Pro install had been getting slower and slower due to network traffic. I download to a NAS drive i bought from this fine shop some time ago, and when ever i watched something in WMP, it was jerky as hell until I set the priority of the program higher. One of the reasons it seems was the fact that SVCHOST.exe was running, taking a lot of the resources up and despite looking on the internet, i couldn't a real sloution to this aside from viruses, of which there are none on my system. After all this the laptop (which I leave on) seems to need a reboot after about 2 days.
Now, out of desperation, I installed Windows 2003 Enterprise Server on my laptop to see what would happen when trying to do the exact same things as i did under XP. The difference was staggering. CPU usage came down, the NAS responded better, playback under WMP10 (wish i could install WMP 11 on W2K3) was smooth, despite other things occuring taking up network bandwidth.
The only real downside to the install at the moment is My MS Webcam no longer works. all other things work on it and until Vista catches up with printer drivers and my fave podcast program Juice works on it, as I tried the OS already thanks to work, and the laptop was stable then too, I may stick with W2K3.
Unless, which is the challenge to you good people, is there a way to make sure that XP doesn't suffer as badly for network usage, and is there something which can be done about svchost.exe taking up too many system resources? Or could there be another issue, perhaps hardware at play here, that would affect XP but not so much W2K3?
