re: downgrade to 2000 Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 4:58 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Alan Masterman (364 messages posted) Hi Phantom, Welcome to the club. In my opinion, Windows 2000 was arguably the finest operating system Microsoft has produced so far. I tried upgrading an Extensa 5620 from Vista to Windows 2000. To my surprise, I found that all of the Vista drivers worked; I only had to reset the BIOS to select IDE mode rather than SATA. This required re-flashing with a BIOS update. The only problem I hadn't expected was that the fonts looked pretty cheesy, because Windows 2000 was not designed with the wide-screen format in mind. But everything worked. I second the advice others have given you regarding XP. It is more compatible with the wide-screen format, has better driver support than Windows 2000, and of course you can customise it to look exactly like Windows 2000 anyway. And with all that memory you will no longer need, you could set up a RAM drive just for your pagefile, which will boost system performance. On Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 11:41 am, phantom wrote: > >I just purchased a new Lenova laptop with Windows Vista. Many of the programs I have >won't work with Vista and I don't like anything about Vista. I don't want to spend >hundreds of dollars on new software. Comp USA said they could downgrade to XP but >I never cared for xp either even though I have it on one of my machines. >What kind of problems will I encounter if I want to install 2000? It is a not an >upgrade 2000 but a legal purchased system. > Written in response to: downgrade to 2000 (phantom: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 11:41 am) Responses to this message: re: downgrade to 2000 (phantom: Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 3:27 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] downgrade to 2000 (phantom: Wed, Mar 11, 2009, 11:41 am) re: downgrade to 2000 (C K: Wed, Mar 11, 2009, 2:56 pm) re: downgrade to 2000 (phantom: Thu, Mar 12, 2009, 6:38 am) re: downgrade to 2000 (Geek9pm: Mon, Mar 16, 2009, 2:55 pm) re: downgrade to 2000 (Steve: Wed, Mar 11, 2009, 4:45 pm) re: downgrade to 2000 (phantom: Thu, Mar 12, 2009, 6:44 am) re: downgrade to 2000 (Louis: Thu, Mar 12, 2009, 2:05 pm) re: downgrade to 2000 (phantom: Fri, Mar 13, 2009, 5:55 am) re: downgrade to 2000 (Louis: Sat, Mar 14, 2009, 8:32 am) re: downgrade to 2000 (phantom: Sun, Mar 15, 2009, 6:20 am) re: downgrade to 2000 (DEX: Fri, Mar 13, 2009, 10:00 am) re: downgrade to 2000 (phantom: Fri, Mar 13, 2009, 10:56 am) re: downgrade to 2000 (DEX: Fri, Mar 13, 2009, 11:39 am) re: downgrade to 2000 (phantom: Fri, Mar 13, 2009, 2:24 pm) re: downgrade to 2000 (Alan Masterman: Thu, Mar 26, 2009, 4:58 am) re: downgrade to 2000 (phantom: Thu, Mar 26, 2009, 3:27 pm) re: downgrade to 2000 (SuperPuddin: Sun, Apr 5, 2009, 2:48 am) re: downgrade to 2000 (phantom: Sun, Apr 5, 2009, 10:37 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum