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XP versus Win 2000
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n74tg
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11. February 2009 @ 12:02 |
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My old Windows 2000 computer is in it's death spasms. I have an XP (Home Edition) machine available.
Do any of you have experience with running Shrink (and Decrypter) on both platforms? Is Windows 2000 that much better, such that I should go to the effort to resuscitate that machine? Or maybe stated a different way, have many of you had good luck with XP?
thanks.
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vballstud
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11. February 2009 @ 12:39 |
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XP = 2000 with a pretty face
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11. February 2009 @ 12:50 |
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11. February 2009 @ 14:28 |
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Windows XP over Windows 2000 yes
Vista = NO!
Windows 7 will be a good one once its released officially this Dec.
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Joleca
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11. February 2009 @ 14:31 |
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You definitely want to go with XP if for no other reason than Microsoft no longer support NT 2000 in any way...
The computers we have at work came pre-loaded with XP when we got them several years back and the company re-imaged all of them with NT 2000..
They sent a crew into our office about 2 months ago and re-imaged them back to XP now.. Reason given, Microsoft would no longer support, wouldn't provide security/critical updates, etc... So they said they were forced to upgrade us back.
Microsoft normally only supports an older OS for 2-3 years after they introduce a newer version... Since Vista has been out for 2 years now and they're working on Windows 7 (currently in beta), unfortunately, they'll probably drop support for XP a year or so after Windows 7 gets its final release...
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12. February 2009 @ 03:36 |
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Originally posted by ZoSoIV:
Windows XP over Windows 2000 yes
Vista = NO!
Windows 7 will be a good one once its released officially this Dec.
Are you sure? I have yet to see any MS product behave properly on it's release date. There will probably be at least a dozen patches in the first 60 days. Maybe by December 2010.
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12. February 2009 @ 10:49 |
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its going to be alot better than Vista
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Xplorer4
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14. February 2009 @ 15:38 |
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Originally posted by Joleca:
they'll probably drop support for XP a year or so after Windows 7 gets its final release...
Which wont be that big of an issue imo, atleast not for myself, and given the praise Windows 7 has received so far. We just have to hope there are no major alterations between the beta and final release that will effect the stability.
@MysticE, you have a great point but so far Windows 7 is everything vista should have been.
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varnull
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14. February 2009 @ 21:40 |
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so far.. apparently.. remember how good the fista betas were compared to the final retail??? wait for all the drm and rubbish being wedged in.. 7 is what fista should have been before M$ got cold feet with the drm.
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