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Re: Measurement of CPU usage
de Daniel Mandic 05/07/2006 03:40
PaulFXH wrote:
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> Daniel Mandic escreveu:
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> > PaulFXH wrote:
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> > > Too, I really cannot believe that nobody in the NG arena has
> > > noticed this phenomenon and come up with a plausible explanation.
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> > Phenomenon? I thought Windows 9x is already a Phenomenon.
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> Not sure in what sense you say that my WinMe is a "phenomenon".
> However, as a long time WinXP user, I have just had the opportunity
> over the last 7 weeks to try out this computer running on WinMe.
> I didn't expect very much particularly with the reputation this OS has
> gained for itself.
> But, I'm actually quite impressed and, now that I've been able to tune
> it up quite a bit, this computer (256MB RAM) actually does some things
> faster than my larger/faster/more RAM box running on WinXP SP2.
> OK, WinMe won't accept a lot of more modern software but for somebody
> who just wants to do e-mailing, browsing and some office tasks I might
> even say that WinMe is better (read faster) than WinXP.
> Paul
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> > Best Regards,
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> > Daniel Mandic
Hi Paul!
You might not have the sense, or you do not want to see the difference.
Well, XP is heavy OK, but even then.... it's a NT Kernel.
256MB is a first argument (as I don't know the machine you are talking
about, CPU, Chipset?). I would max. install NT4, with licennse, or
Windows 95,98 or ME - with 256MB.
Try out NT4... that's a blaze, compared to the 18bitters (9x/ME).
Dazzling is gone, fast true 32bit execution (due to better-kernel away
from 8 and 16bit).
IMO, Win9x/ME is more for compatibility-types... A today Windows-Spezi
(as me ;-)) goes with something NT, or Unix (non-windows :)
internet-specialists).
Only with NT5 and above you get the real out of your IBM-PC compatible
machine. e.g. AGP.
Win9x can start faster, open (some!) apps faster etc.. but it does not
have a memory-protection and it works in a trivial (crashs??) protected
mode. Although, the second time I start the same app on a XP (much much
much better caching strategies - crashfree), it goes faster than any
9x/ME, indeed.
Multitasking is far better. I would even say, that's (NT) the first
real multitasking-OS by Microsoft.
So, your CPU-meter results might be blurred by the OS. Try the same on
NT, and compare 'em to Ctrl-Alt-Del.
Look to Sysinternals, they have nice utils and tools for Windows.
www.sysinternals.com
Kind Regards,
Daniel Mandic