Jon Gabriel wrote:
> Man, I *hated* and *loathed* Win95 and Win98. My computer would crash > if I gave it a sharp look. My CD Burner killed at least 1 disc out of > every 5 with buffer overruns. And just *try* hooking up (or unhooking) > a peripheral: I had to learn keystrokes to get myself in, through and > out of the System Control Panel because I had to open it in Safe Mode > without a Mouse at least once a month. The system didn't recognize my > zip drive half the time, and when it did, the odds are it would crash. > > Then, I bought Win2k Professional. My first experience with it was a > really long phone call with MS Tech support trying to get my old > computer to accept the installation. After that, my modem didn't work. > More calls to tech support. More fixes. > > And then... it never crashed. Not once. I put two computers through > their paces running win2k, and none of them ever crashed the computer. > A program did crash every once in a while, (perhaps twice) but I never, > ever had to 'look under the hood' and play with system settings. > I must be doing something strange because 2K freezes up on me regularly - almost daily. The cursor freezes on the screen and Ctl Alt Del doesn't work - hard reboot is the only way out. Can anyone tell me what I might be doing wrong? I'm running Windows 2000 on a 1Ghz Athalon. One problem I do have is that my C drive partition is too small (2 G) and I'm going to reformat this week. But I have problems with 2k on my (work) laptop too. > But, Win2K is not for gamers. No way, no how. Starcraft was pretty > much the only game I ever ran on it. > I run CIV III and AC on 2K with very few problems. -- Doug email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
