At 10:10 PM 03/28/2007, crownhaven wrote: >Well, I'm not sure about XP. I have friends who run businesses who >still operate Windows 2000 over XP. One of them is an MIT graduate >and he won't touch XP with his business. I have XP PRO on a work >computer and it is a pain in the ass. Always something going >on. Windows 2K runs like a champ. I think I'll stay off the wave >until all these distress calls stop coming in on the reflector.
I'll echo that here, too. My shack PC runs W2K Professional and in 3 or 4 years, when I need to give the system an enema, it will get W2K re-loaded, provided they're still issuing security patches for it. Yeah, it's pretty long in the tooth and it still looks like Windows 95, but it's never crashed ONCE on a machine that's usually up 24/7. The only change I'm going to make is to re-format the box that's acting as a server in my basement with W2K Server instead of XP Pro. Cheers, Peter, W2IRT
