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re: That's a good question.
Thursday, April 6, 2006 at 2:17 am
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Posted by geek9pm (1438 messages posted)

This thread started with a great question and thne went into password stuff.
The difference is this. Last year micorsoft quit free updates for Win 2000. You can still get the last SP3, but for kSP4 you have to pay. For me and a lot of other hungrey geeks, , that is the BIG difference.

Geek9pm

On Monday, April 3, 2006 at 8:18 pm, Netherwolf wrote:
>Yeah, as the heir of NT throne, 2000 won't let you bypass the login without you implicitly
>telling it to do so. That requires admin priveleges. Or a quick trip to http://ultimatebootcd.com/
>which will give you a password changer/registry editor which will THEN give you admin
>priveleges.
>But still that's a good question. What are the fundamental differences between 2000
>and XP?
>
>Never-minding the obvious (and gaudy interface), 2000 and XP are pretty similar.
>XP has roll-backs and fast user-switching, Product Activation, an easy-to-use firewall,
>a warm-huggable face, and a 64-bit distro. And it logs time-restricted events.
>Honestly, x86_64 firepower is the ONLY thing that interests me. And I think I'll
>wait 'til copies of Vista x64 OEM are available at my preferred retailer (OEM translates
>into "half the [...]ing price when bought with hardware."). After that, I can smile
>at the pretty interface and then have BlackBoxLean to tell it to take a hike. XD

Written in response to:: That's a good question. (Netherwolf: Monday, April 3, 2006 at 8:18 pm)

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Question about 'What's the difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP?' (Marcel Brillant: Fri, Mar 31, 2006, 4:52 am)

re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP?' (Carl D: Fri, Mar 31, 2006, 6:02 am)

re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP?' (DEX: Fri, Mar 31, 2006, 6:07 am)

re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP?' (Carl D: Fri, Mar 31, 2006, 6:31 am)

re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP?' (DEX: Fri, Mar 31, 2006, 8:13 am)

re: Question about 'What's the difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP?' (Carl D: Fri, Mar 31, 2006, 5:56 pm)

That's a good question. (Netherwolf: Mon, Apr 3, 2006, 8:18 pm)

re: That's a good question. (geek9pm: Thu, Apr 6, 2006, 2:17 am)

activate win2000 (grasshoppe: Tue, Oct 3, 2006, 1:12 pm)

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