Posted by Howard Casto on 7, 2001 at 2:16 AM:
In Reply to: What's wrong with Windows 2000? :-) posted by Mojo2000 on 5, 2001 at 10:36 PM:
#1 Although some games, especially new ones wil play on 2000, they aren't really supported and don't always run well. 2000 is a business desktop os ya know. Xp has better compatability and the new backwards compatablitiy to let it run older, more exotic games.
#2 Extrememly dumb and confusing menu groupings. If you don't believe me, just go to your local LAN that has a 2000 box and try to browse the network it'll take at least 5 clicks to get to it.
#3 Security holes as big as a house (As of now I really don't know if XP is any better in this dept.. it's too soon to tell.) and buggy memory handleing. (both virtual and physical... it has some huge leaks when runing certian combos, trust me on this one)
I don't have a prob with 2000 in general... it's a less perfect version of xp basically. I really feel for those who bought 2000, because I predicted this. 2000 just turned out to be a buggy premature release of XP. But hey the consumers demanded a new os so M$ was nice enough to slap something together to tide us over. We asked for it.
: I play the majority of my games in Windows 2000 - MAME32, ZSNESw, MagicEngine, ePSXe... (Gran Turismo 2 on my PC ROOOOCKS!!!). I put my Half-Life/Counterstrike under Win98 but I hear it will work under Win2K also...
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: : : Well first of all, why in the freaking hell do you have XP? You NEVER buy an OS right when it comes out before it's even proven itself...Wow so many people fall into the Microsoft trap...well this situation sorta sucks for you because in order to make this hard drive dos bootable you have be able to get to a dos prompt, which XP has COMPLETELY done away with! So your pretty much screwed. Sorry. But let say you are able to get this hard drive into a machine that still has a regular version of windows (like 98 or something). Get to a dos prompt first. Then, (lets say your new harddrive is mounted as the D: drive), type:
: : : format d: /s
: : : That /s copies the necessary system files to the drive that will make it a bootable dos drive. So get rid of XP and go back to something that you know is better (even though it doesn't look as pretty, which is the reason why 3/4 of the people probably bought it anyways!). Did you know that in benchmarks that have been released this past week it has been proven that Windows 2000 is FASTER than XP? funny
: : : jakobud