Windows 2000 was clearly the best Windows.

The first time I saw the picture I cracked up and made it the background of my windows 7 machine.

The graph don't lie. I still crack up every time I see it. I had it laying around on my desktop one night and I was drinking beers with a mate of mine and he just opened it and we were nervously laughing for like 10 mins straight.

Jokes aside, Windows 2000 was an eye-opener for me as well, although I don't really visit often anymore these days. My Pentium Pro system happily runs NT4.0 and any time I want something newer than Win98, I usually go straight to WinXP.

This is my Win2000 laptop. It's ASUS B1000A from 2001 (Pentium-3 700 or 1000, don't know - based). This model initially developed for WinME and 2000 Pro, but later re-certified for WinXP RTM, and my laptop has a XP sticker.

It was gifted to me by friend who found it dropped inside trash container. By the data on its HDD, the laptop was used probably until 2011. I'm completely erased it, and reinstalled Win2K and all OEM stuff from ASUS FTP. Even wallpaper and screen saver still present on website. Only ASUS DVD2000, IBM ViaVoice v8.0 and fingerprint reader software don't seems to be available anywhere. Then I'd installed IE6.0 SP1, Windows Update Client 3.0, downloaded all available updates and driver for HP LaserJet 1150 printer (too from Wizard through WU in 2020!). And for some homework installed some software from 2002-2004. Now it is usable for some easy things again.

Interesting that BIOS showing 1GHz CPU, but all software reporting only 700 Mhz.

Seems to be a strange SpeedStep issue. But even 700 MHz is enough for almost anything.
Battery is dead. Tried to recharge cells from external PSU, but they are dead at all (heating, hissing, but don't eat any charge even to unlock charge controller board).

Garrett W wrote on 2020-04-12, 18:52:

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Windows 2000 was clearly the best Windows.

XP in ASCII is 8880, right?

I think we have a new winner.

As a sidenote, could someone enlighten me as to what XP can do that 2000 can not? I refused to switch to XP Bloat all the way until 2007/2006 or thereabouts and directly moved to Windows 7 Betas from that in 2008/2009, and I never felt like I missed out on anything..

XP (like WinME too) is booting faster and have built-in support for photo displaying, printing and some editing out of box. WinXP can burn CD/DVDs directly from Explorer without any other software. Also only since XP all non-BMP wallpapers can be set without Active Desktop, it's very good on slow machines. With XP Wi-Fi adapters no longer need their own Connection Managers, and they can make a connect even on login screen. I'm using this feature to use Remote Desktop. Win2k Servers are inaccessible through Wi-Fi until autorun of the app and handshake between Adapter and Router.

In Win2003 domains can be renamed, but if the Domain Controller is on Win2000 - there are no (official) way to rename the NT domain.

Win2000 have not so best support for MUI packs, XP can be better localized for each user. But English+MUI WinXP cannot use updates for localized versions, however English Win2000 with MUI can be updated with any language versions of patches. So this is a moment where 2K is better than XP. Probably it's a bug that wasn't found until Whistler development, but it making possibility to make a non-English OS with unofficial updates that were not released for my language.

I think I switched from 2000 to XP because someone told me it was better for games? I no longer remember the details. This was about 2005. I made the switch reluctantly as I really liked 2000.

Errius wrote on 2020-04-13, 22:01:

I think I switched from 2000 to XP because someone told me it was better for games? I no longer remember the details. This was about 2005. I made the switch reluctantly as I really liked 2000.

There was a 1-2% difference that did not pursuade me at the time..

appiah4 wrote on 2020-04-13, 09:11:

As a sidenote, could someone enlighten me as to what XP can do that 2000 can not? I refused to switch to XP Bloat all the way until 2007/2006 or thereabouts and directly moved to Windows 7 Betas from that in 2008/2009, and I never felt like I missed out on anything..

Convenience of having built in RDP access and wifi is what made me jump ship.