I have windows 2000 Professional now

Robert McClelland · Feb 5, 2005, 05:11 PM

I got a real copy of windows 2000 professional from a freind at work person let me borrow to try it out. I have a question should I used this more then xp? Right now I have dual boot setup for it 80gig for xp home and 40gigs about for windows 2000. And what can I do with windows 2000 pro?

Any ideas are welcome

md5 · Feb 5, 2005, 08:24 PM

Well, there's no reason to use 2000 over XP... unless you hate the extra features of XP that much (e.g. the themes). 2000 is supposed to be faster than XP and it has no activation scheme like XP does

Robert McClelland · Feb 5, 2005, 09:14 PM

ya I just benchmark in win2000pro I hit 11,662 in 3dmark01se overclock at 553/503 which not bad for it

No_Style · Feb 5, 2005, 09:33 PM

WinXP is more feature rich than 2K PRO. A lot of subtle changes make it more superior than 2K. I see no reason to go back to it either.

Robert McClelland · Feb 5, 2005, 10:25 PM

What does windows 2000pro do anyway? I mean I just have only plain xp home editon hehe I think sound is much louder in win2000pro then xp for some reason.

No_Style · Feb 6, 2005, 12:07 AM

Win2K PRO was developed for workstation use. Sound drivers (or lack thereof) could be the reason why things are "louder".

The_Neon_Cowboy · Feb 6, 2005, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Robert McClelland

ya I just benchmark in win2000pro I hit 11,662 in 3dmark01se overclock at 553/503 which not bad for it

You've got some large performance issues man! I was getting 14,000+ K in 2001se stock with a 9600xt.... you need to tweak / update drivers or something...

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Originally Posted by md5

Well, there's no reason to use 2000 over XP... unless you hate the extra features of XP that much (e.g. the themes). 2000 is supposed to be faster than XP and it has no activation scheme like XP does

Luckily I bought mine before they added activation so my XP requires no activation...

Windows XP = windows NT 5.1
Windows 2000 = windows NT 5.0
Windows ME= Windows NT4 + windows 98

Windows 2000 is the fastest windows OS to date it's also the most stable.... 2000 has been magor sevice packed / updated 4 times already... Alot of the bugs are pretty well quashed by now... It's a great OS I ran it before XP . All XP did was add some better support for new things and some performance here and that but the defult eye candy they add to the OS makes XP a verry bulky wastefull OS....

Support for 2000 has pretty well died now and there are some limitations as with all oses...

If you tweak XP, like I do it take it takes about an 1/2 hour to do (and mounths to learn) and drops all the FLUFF from XP leaveing it like much more like windows 2000
in that state. Tweaked XP for me is way better.... Plus like I mention somethings, support, etc are better in XP...

But right out of the boxes though? 2000 is better then XP, and about 1/2 the memory system requirements...

Now after sp2 the added security, useing some future long horn code even! XP is now that way is should have been released in the 1st place...

One could really argue wich endlesly OS is truely the better one

PangingJr · Feb 6, 2005, 10:01 AM

Based on my experiences on both win XP and win 2000, XP is more stable than win 2000. as for system performance, i can't say or feel any diferrent.
on any P4 and 512+MB of RAM system, they are the same. even so, for using an XP on a low-end processor and ram modules system may require a custom installation or some more tweaks than usual after the installed.

No_Style · Feb 6, 2005, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Ctrl-Alt-Del

Based on my experiences on both win XP and win 2000, XP is more stable than win 2000. as for system performance, i can't say or feel any diferrent.
on any P4 and 512+MB of RAM system, they are the same. even so, for using an XP on a low-end processor and ram modules system may require a custom installation or some more tweaks than usual after the installed.

Indeed. I do see XP having better memory management as well. If you really want to be "efficient", then use Win2K3.

PangingJr · Feb 6, 2005, 11:10 AM

hmm. why wasn't the XP SP2 already happening at the time when it first came out? simply because MS did not have it at that time. i think.

El Kapitano · Feb 6, 2005, 11:37 AM

Windows Dual boot setups make it a c*** to get back to just one OS BTW (My experience anyway) usually easier to reformat/reinstall. Nowadays I usually break a drive out of retirement to install any other OS on.

PangingJr · Feb 6, 2005, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by No_Style

Indeed. I do see XP having better memory management as well. If you really want to be "efficient", then use Win2K3.

me too. and i don't do anything 'server' that much really, so never really want to buy/use win 2k3. but friends use it and they told me the win 2k3 is better than win 2000 server. never go into details with them for why they said that. but i'm sure they knows. for me just the XP. for now.

Shaga · Feb 6, 2005, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Ctrl-Alt-Del

me too. and i don't do anything 'server' that much really, so never really want to buy/use win 2k3. but friends use it and they told me the win 2k3 is better than win 2000 server. never go into details with them for why they said that. but i'm sure they knows. for me just the XP. for now.

Win2k3 rocks, definetly, I've used it for 6 months. It's even more stabile than win2k, it has better memory management(as it seems) than winxp, it runs games with higher performance.. but there are major flaws:

Flaw 1#
Some games won't work with it, for example many installers(manhunt for example). Logitech drivers must be ran in compatibility mode, and some other drivers with installer.

Flaw 2#
FPS and overall performance is better with games than with win2k/winxp but games have some strange clitches, strange mouse control or other flopping effects. Strange, must admit.

Because of flaw 1#, I stopped using it 5 months ago.

This is definetly needed after installing win2k3, http://www.msfn.org/win2k3/

Robert McClelland · Feb 6, 2005, 03:20 PM

[color=gold][/color]The Neon Cowboy whats your stock speed on your 9600xt? mine 500/300 on my abit.
I might try win2000 for while see if I like if not I reformat put xp on one hard drive hehe