You will get different opinions but realize that W2K is a system that was designed 
for businesses and professional use where security is important.  It isn't as friendly 
with some applications and games as is XP Home for instance.  It will be completely 
different in many aspects than Win 9X systems but will look the same on the surface. 
 Under the surface it is totally different and is not a DOS system at all.

Upgrading or installing over a Win 9X system may or may not work, but it fails in 
many cases so the recommendation here is to back up any data that you want to save, 
wipe the drive/reformat and install W2K clean.  The reasons for failure is compatibility 
in software you may be running mainly, and hardware secondary.  W2K can be very frustrating 
if you have never worked with it before.  It is worlds apart from Win 9X when it 
comes to configuring and security options.  A better choice might be XP Home edition 
(for home use) if your hardware is new/powerful enough to handle it, but you should 
run the upgrade advisor if you consider XP (can be done online from the MS website). 
 W2K is at the end of it's life cycle and support will soon be ending.

Now if you are just curious and want to run it for gaining experience in working 
with professional end of the NT type systems to start, it will be a worth while endeavor 
and will be a better choice for older, slower hardware.  Don't be surprised if it 
doesn't support all of the hardware though.  XP has more hardware support than does 
W2K in my experience.







On Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 7:51 am, Dawn wrote:

>I am thinking of upgrading an old computer from ME to 2000.  Has anyone encountered 

>any problems? 

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