Cosmetic differences...

I have seen the Fragmentation Grenades on W2K happen in UNDER an hour of a Laptop being "built" and de-frag'd. I didn't say IT did it ALL of the time. Maybe I missed something, but the newer (slight)revision of the FS Driver in XP is a significant "selection criteria" difference from what W2K is. No, Memory Commits and Swapfile Management is not much if any difference in W2K as WXP, but it.. in combination with the "Slight" change in the FS driver for XP, it does make a difference.

Now, as for your statements about smoke. I'm all out.