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Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: AlexKidd on March 16, 2007, 01:04:20 am ---The main advantage of win2k is there is no activation so you can install it on multiple machines.

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There are at least 15-20 reasons NOT to use 2k!!!

What did I just say man?

jcrouse:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 16, 2007, 01:12:53 am ---
--- Quote from: AlexKidd on March 16, 2007, 01:04:20 am ---The main advantage of win2k is there is no activation so you can install it on multiple machines.

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What did I just say man?


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Howard ..... Welcome to the world of "public" forums. :)

John

Loki:
Uh... Windows 2000 pro is the best version I ever used to be honest.
But there is a lot of software that needs XP now.

Havok:

--- Quote from: AlexKidd on March 16, 2007, 01:04:20 am ---The main advantage of win2k is there is no activation so you can install it on multiple machines.

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You need a volume license son - I don't have activation on MY XP.

 ;)

I definitely agree with Howard on this. You get all the advantages of a newer O/S, plus the big one: software support. All the tools will work on XP. I have Vista as well, and some of the tools just don't work. Plus, on the same machine, Vista is a tad slower. XP is really the best choice for an O/S due to general compatibility with the greatest amount of emulators, front ends, hardware, etc...

Tiger-Heli:
There's another thing in XP's favor that I forgot about.  In the early days of XP, there were a lot of posts on how Win98 was more backwards compatible, as it was still basically a GUI running on top of DOS.

I have some old DOS games that I could never get sound to play through the PC speakers under Win98 on b/c they were only setup to use the internal speaker or a Roland or Adlib soundcard that none of the modern integrated sound chips emulate.

Then I discovered DOSBOX - a full 80386 DOS PC emulator that yes, only runs on XP, and also emulates the PC speaker so it's output is routed through the internal sound card.

In summary, with the exception of some glitches with After Dark the screensaver, there is nothing that I can run on Win98 that I can't run better on WinXP, but there are more and more apps that work on WinXP and not Win9x.

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