On 1/24/2010 2:35 PM, Adam Maas wrote:
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:09 PM, P. J. Alling
<[email protected]> wrote:
Win2K was a better OS from the start than XP. It's taken a long time to get
drivers for a lot of things, (I remember having to run my Printer shared on
a Win98 box because the Win2K driver refused to install on Win2K).. The
only thing that killed my last Win2K system was hardware failure. I guess
2000 just didn't have enough eye candy for MS marketing.
Windows 2000 is little more than XP without DirectX (early versions of
the DX being the primary source of the problems with XP, DX didn't get
stable until DX8). The later servicepacks of XP were distinct
improvements over Win2k. And you could turn off the eyecandy easily,
all of my XP installs had the Win2K UI enabled.
Hum, I have been able to take the HD from my original Win2K installation
and move it to three different machines, each time Win2K booted and
asked for the proper drivers for the new hardware and when finished ran
faster than before. I was able to clone that same installation from
it's original 8.4 GB drive to an 84 gb drive remove the 8.4 and keep
going with no further muss of fuss. My only problems with Win2K have
been with Iomega Zip Drivers and the catistrophic failure of my last
84gb drive. I've had no particular stability issues despite the Win2k
machine beginning life as a software test bed. I wish I could say the
same for WinXP. I spend a lot of time fixing problems with it for other
people. I do have a stripped down installation of XP on my laptop, it
works fine, but the green and blue task bar/start button just annoy me,
and it would take custom modification of the registry and custom
graphics to change that.
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{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Courier
New;}}
\viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs20 I've just upgraded to Thunderbird 3.0 and the
interface subtly weird.\par
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