On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 3:29 PM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/24/2010 2:35 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > > 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. >
I've spent a lot of time fixing XP installs. And a lot of time fixing Win2K installs back when they were still current. Very little difference between the two, install too much crap and the OS gets screwed up. If anything XP is more reliable as long as you're running the latest SP. And to get the Win2K interface is simple and requires no registry mods or custom graphics. Right click on your desktop, select properties, set the theme to Windows Classic. Voila! The Win2K UI. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
