On MacPro Windows XP slow - is it Bootcamp?

I have MacPro with 2 dual core Xeon processors 2.66 Ghz , 3GB Ram, 3 hard drives. The last 6 month I've used it mainly under Bootcamp and Windows XP because of software availability issues.
Last month I've become desperate - computer was working so slow. For example to start Maya took 70 sec, after I click on a file with .txt extension in file manager I have to wait a minute or 2 for notepad to open.
So I did some research, downloaded some utilities to configure computer, to tweak configuration, cleaned up registry, unfragmented hard drives. After a week of work I still had the same problem,
what I've learned that there is no way to use more than 2 GB of RAM under bootcamp and that only one processor is used for all operations, only for rendering system uses all 4 processors.
Then I've decided to go back to Mac OS, installed Maya for Mac and Parallels and miracle happened, now my computer is so fast. To start up Maya under Mac OS takes 25 sec, it uses all 4 processors for all operations and all 3 GB of RAM. I still need Windows to run some applications but it seems to run much faster even if it uses the same Bootcamp partition.
So now I'm trying to figure out: is it Mac OS X so much faster than Windows XP or Apple's Bootcamp slows down Windows and on a Windows computer Windows XP is fast.
What do you think?

is it Mac OS X so much faster than Windows XP or Apple's Bootcamp slows down Windows and on a Windows computer Windows XP is fast
I don't believe it's either. I think it's simply Windows XP having problems. Windows XP should go like any PC with similar hardware. All Boot Camp does is allow a GUID partitioned drive to have a NTFS/FAT32 partition on it such that it appears as a C drive to Windows. That all it does. Additionally, drivers are supplied for Apple specific hardware.
I would check the state of your Windows XP installation.

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2. Purged temporary internet and other temporary files (using internet options and disk cleanup utilities)
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6. Defragmented.
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