Thanks for the replies 😀
I like reading other people's experiences 😁
I've used 2k on 2 rigs myself. One was just a test rig (I barely touched it after seeing the desktop for the 1st time) and the other was my main rig for a short time, maybe only a year or 6 months even!
It did have BSoD problems but I believe that had more to do with the way that PC came to existance then with 2k itself.
Back then my fastest system was a Celeron 400 with 192MB RAM and a smallish harddrive (less then 10GB iirc).
I build a 'new' system, an Athlon XP it was I think, but only had 2k at the time (no XP back then yet).
However, the disk wasn't bootable and as I couldn't boot it from ME (because ME uses DOS to boot, something like that) I decided to just use some random drive which already had 98SE installed and do an upgrade (yup, thats a bad omen alright! 😜 )
I ran it until the system finally wouldn't boot anymore. I did a virus scan and found thousands of infections!
I was surprised the system had actually run with so many infections!
Apparently the previous owner of that 98SE (who was someone who happened to know my mother and passed his old broken computer to me) had been visiting 'sites containing erotic art 😁'.
That said, I have an interest in running older OS-es. Heck, I've even run neptune(!!) and a tweaked Windows 2003 Evaluation (made it run as a gaming rig).
Btw, I was very much impressed with 2003, it seemed to run even better then XP!
It ran quite fast on a P3-800 I had at the time and seemed to boot faster too.
I'd still like to put 2k to good use though.
There is one thing 2k can do that XP can't, at least not out of the box.
When XP arrived, it would not work anymore with some particular older hardware, for instance 1x speed LS-120 drives (IDE), floptical drives and floppy drives that weren't 1.44MB.
I later found you can still get 2.88MB floppydrives to work on XP with the use of WinImage but LS-120 drives supposedly would only work in XP with the 1.44MB floppies.
leileilol wrote:I'd just dual-boot Windows 2000 just to run slightly more modern things at least. I even use it on my 486 (with the service packs even) now how's that for insane computing?
leileilol...I love you haha!!!11 😜