Windows 2000 Vs. 98

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Originally posted by DWk+11 December 2003 - 20:11--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (DWk &#064; 11 December 2003 - 20:11)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin-boyzeee@11 December 2003 - 12:10
i heard a while back that microsoft is going to stop supporting 98 in the near future

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near future? lol u outdated....this has been "true" for like more than 6 months....[/b][/quote]
:( so it is

and there are more and more applications needed win2k or xp, for example adobe photoshop cs and random nuts klr.exe :)

so i let my 98se like it is (never touch a running system :P ) and build up a new machine with win2k next year.

then i will be able to run random nuts klr.exe :lol:

by the way: do not use winme.
and last but not least: in strict definitions win98 isn&#39;t an operating system, you can say it is a package of applications put over msdos.
but that&#39;s why i love it :rolleyes:

cu uncle_cracker

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Originally posted by DWk+11 December 2003 - 19:11--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (DWk @ 11 December 2003 - 19:11)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-boyzeee@11 December 2003 - 12:10
i heard a while back that microsoft is going to stop supporting 98 in the near future

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near future? lol u outdated....this has been "true" for like more than 6 months.... [/b][/quote]
yeh LOL :D i dont really have any interest in 98/me etc anymore so when i heard that they were gonna stop support i didnt even bother to check it out coz i really couldnt care&#33; if i have to work on a 98/se/me based pc now ive got discs with most of the updates on or i upgrade them to xp or 2000. note to self....must try harder :D

Sorry, I still can&#39;t understand this "which is best" bullshit. You all claim to have 160gb hard dives and 1 gig of ram and all the other crap.

Why do you only have one installed operating system? That&#39;s a pretty fuckin low performance user in my opinion.

It only takes 5 gig or so to run an OS. Ideally, you&#39;d want to allocate about 10 to 20 gig for each to have independent programs installed for each OS.

Even with a 40 gig drive, 4 operating systems is easily done.

I have run 7 hosts on one drive in the past along with many other virtual installs.

Now with VMware and VPC getting more stable and more accessible, there&#39;s no reason not to run alternate systems.

Get with the times, get some experience. Get some flexibility and use outta your machine&#33;&#33;

i run win xp, 2k3 server and 2k pro, as hosts and win 98 in VMware, so i dont think im doing to bad

Ok it seems that there is an agreement that 2000 is more stable. and thats what drving this decision because i have so much garbage on my 98. its becoming very unstable with constant crashes and blue screens.

And i figure to reformat soon anyway. but the other question i had was.

I can change my key in registry with 98 to what ever i want. i can change my key to "Bill Gates is a idiot" and still get all my updates on the windows update page.

How does 2000 work, is it like XP in which you have to go through the process of dialing in, using a keygen etc... does 2000 use key authentication. like XP

Or does it work like 98 in which it make no difference what the key it named.i dont want to have problems getting updates for 2000

sry to be intrusive.... but why not use xp? i mean....for games its better... its extremely stable...

I really don&#39;t see the point of running multiple versions of Windows. Windows and a Linux distro i myself run, but multiple Windows installations are pointless, aside maybe from playing really old games.

That&#39;s not to say that i disagree with you Balamm, it is good to gain experience of setting up OS&#39;s, and then of tuning and maintainance, if you are enough of a geek :P . But at the end of all that, we all settle for our personal favourite, and are left with nothing more than wasted disk space. Most people are perfectly happy if their computer allows them to play games, media, and to p2p.

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Originally posted by DWk@11 December 2003 - 22:16
sry to be intrusive.... but why not use xp? i mean....for games its better... its extremely stable...

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Because im putting it on a 400Mhz 96 MB Ram 4 year old Compaq Presario

does win 2k even run on a system that cra.... i mean good?

ah ok LOL...didnt read that.... k then i think 2k is the way to go :)