[QuikDraw]

I find almost all XP "optimizations" to be suspect. I've tried pretty much all of the so-called "optimizations" at one time or another. I'd make a tweak and then run the DaveC test. Each time I found no performance improvement. At one time I had applied virtually all known "optimizations". XP and PTLE 5.3.1 always ran just fine, but there never was any performance gain. I eventually decided to reload XP from scratch and apply no optimizations and see what the results would be. There's no difference in performance running without all the so-called optimizations.

The only things I have done are to set my visual effects settings to "performance" (mainly because I like the Win9x look better), and I set a permanent swap file size (only becuase I prefer a permanent swap file, PTLE doesn't care). And I've turned off auto-play on all drives (because I hate autoplay. Again, PTLE doesn't care).

That's been my experience. Take it for what it's worth.

Mike