win2000 vs winXP

[onetrueday]

Recently I won the lottery, so i bought full retail versions of win2000 and windowsXP. Right now I am VERY content running win98se, I havent crashed in over a month and I only crashed then because of a conflict between aol and scramdisk. However much I love win98se, I feel like my computer skills have been grow crusty. So, it's time to upgrade and learn some new things. I have no real knowledge of NT, win2000, or winXP. This will be a totally new experience for me. For example, I dont know if you can run win2000 on a FAT32 HD!

Any thoughts on which is really better?

[onetrueday]

Also, how hard is it to run a dual booting computer? I thought I had read that if you install win2000 when you already have win98se that it'll ask you. Is that how it works?

[Trancentral]

hi

I wanna know the same things your asking cuz I'm getting win2k to and I only know my way in Win98

I'm very curious how you set up win98/win2k dualboot

[Jon]

onetrueday,

You can run Windows 2000 on a fat 32 hd. Running a dual boot is not a big deal.

Check out this link, it will explain it alot better than I can.
http://www.tweak3d.net/articles/win2kdualboot/


In my own experience, I ran a dual boot win98/2000 system for quite awhile and after testing the apps. I wanted to run. I decided windows 2000 was all I needed.

After SP2 for windows 2000 and the March compatibility update, I have not found an app. or game that does not run under windows 2000.

[Trancentral]

Jon , can you please tell me where can I get the March com. upgrade??????? Post a link PLZ

[Trancentral]

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/tools/appcompat/default.asp


:rolleyes:

[onetrueday]

Let's just say perhaps that I know someone who didnt actually buy win2000. I'm running an original win98se OEM disk right now, so I have no experience running mcro ware. The only thing I've ever run was copy of office2000 pro. It worked fine, until I accidently updated one night. Two days later, the computer went NUTS. A friend of mine's brother was running a copy of winME, every thirty days it would start to go nuts on him. I am sure this is microsoft's doing.

Any thoughts? How safe are you to upgrade and update?

[onetrueday]

lalala... BUMP!

[HalfLifer]

Windows 2000....Win Xp just looks childish :(

[CompGeek83]

you must be talking about the preview thing microsoft did with XP, cause there is no retail release for it yet, and windows XP doesn't look childish, just go into desktop properties and go set it to the old windows theme

[AMPLIFRIER]

im runnning dual boot win2k pro and win98se
i on the bandwagon with Jon
i like win2k just fine.
but im a frames per second freak when it comes to quake3
only thing is win2k gives you a little bit of a frame loss so i hang onto win98
that and i have a couple pieces of hardware that dont like win2k a whole lot
id recommend a dual boot set up till your sure you like it more
i run my win2k with NTFS
it has NO problems accessing and writing to fat32 partitions.

AMP

[drdoug99]

ditto with everyone else, win2000 is great. stable, clean, fast running. Same with XP, plays games fine, stable, some cool new features, but nothing too special. I'm still waiting to try the remote management with XP. that should be fun.

[nightowl]

Originally posted by onetrueday
Let's just say perhaps that I know someone who didnt actually buy win2000. I'm running an original win98se OEM disk right now, so I have no experience running mcro ware. The only thing I've ever run was copy of office2000 pro. It worked fine, until I accidently updated one night. Two days later, the computer went NUTS. A friend of mine's brother was running a copy of winME, every thirty days it would start to go nuts on him. I am sure this is microsoft's doing.

Any thoughts? How safe are you to upgrade and update?

winME= win98se + bloatwear

stay away from ME...had nothing but problems with it

[onetrueday]

Oh, I know that winME is bloated and very unattractive. I have a young daughter, so I have to set an example. I would never use winME. I was only stating my opinion on use wareiz based on mcrosoft stuff and if other people sometimes have trouble running wind wrz stuf.

[crazyjw1971]

Originally posted by nightowl
stay away from ME...had nothing but problems with it

I had many many problems with WinME. It didnt stay on my system for a week! My fiance liked it because it had "Spider Solitaire". I told her "tough, im switching to Win2000"!

Ummm... TO HELL WITH WINDOWS MILLENNIUM!!!

Is that better?

:D

[AMPLIFRIER]

I installed ME one time...........and after the install was done.....LMAO.......the desktop was just all kinds of fricked up!
i didnt even have it booted for 1 minute b4 i reformated and put win 98 back on

i will never bother with it again ever

AMP

[Joe]

format your hd and install win 98 fresh.

then get partition magic any way you want and make another partition for 2K (make it what ever file system you wish fat 32 or ntfs)

then reboot and boot to your 2k cd (i wouldnt use the win 32 install for 2k)

once installing you can choose the partition and FS from there (if you want to change it from there)

with partition magic come boot magic... it will boot up before any OS and ask you what HD to boot to.