W2K vs XP?' Friday, September 6, 2002 at 12:24 pm Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by brian slater (1 messages posted) I have a question about What's the difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP?: I heard a lot of bad things so far about XP, wont load software it doesnt like (has to be M$ certified), it crashes and locks up badly and worst of all you give M$ control over your PC I have upgrade from W98 after years of regular crashes and unreliable performance (thank goodness for Norton System Works, you cannot be without it on W98) My observation so far is that W2K is far more stable and fault tolerant. It pretty much works like a dream (excep for some bad software from the Multimedia industry - very flaky stuff. But I did get a megacrash and it wiped out the OS. I had to buy an additional harddrive and reinstall. This was cause by my trying to fit a Matrox AGP video card (they didnt bother to say get the latest drivers before installation. However, 2 weeks work down the drain (not data, which i revovered, but reinstallation of apps) That aside, W2K does seem ok. Ive now got to go to great lengths to protect is from the net. Get mozilla, and a different mailer, I am told. Ive got Norton Firewall, Is it good enough. Ive had several backorifice attempts alarmed. Its strange that these only occur in the wee small hours? I suspect some little nerd in my ISP playing around on the night shift. Do you agree? Grateful for your comments, to share is to support the common cause Brian Responses to this message: re: W2K vs XP?' (A Snider: Thursday, September 12, 2002 at 9:47 pm) re: W2K vs XP?' (factotum218: Friday, April 22, 2005 at 5:19 pm) re: W2K vs XP?' (John Jamieson: Friday, June 3, 2005 at 9:47 am) re: W2K vs XP?' (Jude Nihal Fernando: Friday, December 1, 2006 at 6:36 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] W2K vs XP?' (brian slater: Fri, Sep 6, 2002, 12:24 pm) re: W2K vs XP?' (A Snider: Thu, Sep 12, 2002, 9:47 pm) re: W2K vs XP?' (Roddy: Wed, Mar 19, 2003, 12:06 pm) re: W2K vs XP?' (TDP: Wed, Apr 30, 2003, 11:46 am) re: W2K vs XP?' (David Gagnon: Mon, Jan 31, 2005, 9:59 pm) re: W2K vs XP?' (factotum218: Fri, Apr 22, 2005, 5:19 pm) re: W2K vs XP?' (John Jamieson: Fri, Jun 3, 2005, 9:47 am) re: W2K vs XP?' (Sythem: Mon, Jun 6, 2005, 6:40 pm) re: W2K vs XP?' (Peter Griffin: Mon, Aug 29, 2005, 7:06 pm) re: W2K vs XP?' (J: Sat, Jan 14, 2006, 7:11 pm) re: W2K vs XP?' (Naveen Gupta: Wed, Nov 23, 2005, 9:25 pm) re: W2K vs XP?' (J: Sat, Jan 14, 2006, 7:01 pm) re: W2K vs XP?' (bugmenott: Tue, Nov 11, 2008, 10:45 pm) re: W2K vs XP?' (Jude Nihal Fernando: Fri, Dec 1, 2006, 6:36 pm) 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