Good Old Win2k

[joohang]

No clue. It asked me all sorts of printer questions in some of the oddest business scenarios.

I shouldn't reveal the questions to the public, though. It had a lot to do setting priorities and different OU's sharing one printer so you had to give higher priorities to managers, etc.

From my experience, most businesses just have a separate printer for each set of users. And I rarely saw them networked to a Windows XP workstation, yet most of these questions asked Windows-XP-specific questions. Oh well. I passed.

One of my co-workers speculated that the exam is designed to ask more questions on areas I don't know much about. So perhaps I kept on getting the printer questions wrong so they attacked me in that area. I got questioned little about the topics that really matter so I suppose I'm pretty strong at all the stuff I need to know..

 

[rgwalt]

I always stay 6 months to a year behind the OS upgrade curve. It gives MS time to catch up with their service patches. Since installing Win2K in Jan/Feb of 2001, I haven't had any problems with it crashing. Not one BSOD to my recollection. I've been running on the same install for about a year. Sometimes it gets buggy after I've left the comp on for over 10 days without a reboot, but that is to be expected. I'll avoid XP until I KNOW that all my hardware is supported, or until I build a new machine.

Ryan

 

[Red Dawn]

<< Such as? >>

Well for starters if you want to convert your Fat32 Files system to NTFS in XP you have to use a command line to do it (or do it while installing Win XP) unlike W2K where you can do it in the Disk Managment GUI Command Console.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

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<< It is not crap, they did a very good job on it. I'm just not quite convinced that it's an upgrade from 2K. It's a little too glossy & dumbed down for my tastes. >>

Actually it's not dumbed down, it's just some of the things you did in GUI in W2K can only be done via a Command Line in XP Pro. >>



Commandline? Isn't that one of the 'disadvantages' Microsoft keeps bringing up when talking about Unix/Linux/*BSD?

 

[Amused]

I've had few problems with XP, and most of those were user error. I love it.

 

[travler]

After a full day of fighting tooth and nail with XP I reinstalled Win2k.

good ole Win2k pro has seldom let me down. it is solid as a rock. XP wouldnt even give me a chance to insstall drivers before it started locking uop and freezing. actualy it wouldnt even let me activate it one time without freezing. what a POS

XP remids me of the Macs i used to work with at school. The OS is constantly trying to hold your hardware hostage from you. then after it makes you crash it wants to tell all of its friends about it. I think its trying to brag back to Microsoft. Win2k just protects your hardware from 3rd party dufuses.

 

[Red Dawn]

<< Win2k just protects your hardware from 3rd party dufuses. >>

Just like XP does.

The only complaint I have regarding XP is that lame Activation BS. I hope they choke on it (they being MS)

 

[Fritzo]

<< Well, after 4 months of suffering under XPpro, I finally got win2k back on my comp tonight.


A word to anyone who's contemplating installing XP: DON'T DO IT. Its crap. >>



It's Win2000 with a new interface....that's like saying Win98SE is crappier than Win98. I think you're in the minority on this one bud.

 

[Fritzo]

<<

<< A word to anyone who's contemplating installing XP: DON'T DO IT. Its crap. >>

Well said >>



It is not crap, they did a very good job on it. I'm just not quite convinced that it's an upgrade from 2K. It's a little too glossy & dumbed down for my tastes.

Viper GTS[/i] >>



Right click the start button, properties, and select the classic start menu. Next, open display properties, themes, and select Classic Windows. Viola....you have the WIn2000 interface.

 

[SpecialEd]

well guys... i've tried Windows 95, 98, 98 SE, ME, 2K and XP and think they're all crap. So i'm going back to windows 3.11. simply the best IMO. No compatibility problems with Mech Warrior 2 and Doom. Runs incredibly smooth on my Athon XP 1600 system.

 

[Martin]

To be fair, there a few clever little things that I loved in WinXP. Most notably the collapsable systray and lockable toolbars, and the built in DSL software, but that's it. Those little things couldn't make me keep it.


Among all the reports of MS spying on your, the incredibly fugly GUI (yes, even with skins you can't get rid of everything). Everythign just seems dumbed down, the GUI made for cluless people (most notably the explorer bars), who also happen to be half blind and colourblind .


I really think 2k was the best damned OS MS ever made. I can easily see it going all downhill from here....

 

[Geekbabe]

<< To be fair, there a few clever little things that I loved in WinXP. Most notably the collapsable systray and lockable toolbars, and the built in DSL software, but that's it. Those little things couldn't make me keep it.


Among all the reports of MS spying on your, the incredibly fugly GUI (yes, even with skins you can't get rid of everything). Everythign just seems dumbed down, the GUI made for cluless people (most notably the explorer bars), who also happen to be half blind and colourblind .


I really think 2k was the best damned OS MS ever made. I can easily see it going all downhill from here.... >>




Please,I'm sitting here now working on 3 older systems that I'm reselling, the pain of Win98SE after using Win2kPro is almost unbearable...lol, this definately isn't my workstation !!!!

 

[Bulk Beef]

XP has nicer wallpaper.

 

[Parrotheader]

My brother's computer crashed awhile back and I was rebuilding it for him. In the interim, my dad picked up an elcheapo Compaq for him to use which we'd then give to my mother once his original system was rebuilt. The Compaq had XP on it and he was beginning to like it. But like it or not, he's getting plain, old vanilla W2K. I've toyed with the idea of putting WindowBlinds on it with an XP skin just to see if I could fool him.

 

[Viper GTS]

<<

<<

<< A word to anyone who's contemplating installing XP: DON'T DO IT. Its crap. >>

Well said >>



It is not crap, they did a very good job on it. I'm just not quite convinced that it's an upgrade from 2K. It's a little too glossy & dumbed down for my tastes.

Viper GTS >>



Right click the start button, properties, and select the classic start menu. Next, open display properties, themes, and select Classic Windows. Viola....you have the WIn2000 interface.[/i] >>



I did that a long time ago.

Haven't looked back since.

Viper GTS

 

[Ornery]

Win2k? XP? Some kind of new operating systems? Well, as soon as 98SE starts giving me trouble, I may look into those!

 

[Geekbabe]

<< Win2k? XP? Some kind of new operating systems? Well, as soon as 98SE starts giving me trouble, I may look into those! >>




wiseguy, step up to a real OS !!

 

[wyvrn]

XP is fine other than the activation. But then that only takes a few seconds. Yes it is dumbed down, reminds me of a Macintosh. This is fine for the average computer user, and has the stability (so far) of Win2k, which was what Microsoft was looking for. I prefer Win2k, but most everyday users I meet prefer Win98 or XP.

 

[Ornery]

"...step up to a real OS !!"

Yeah, next PC I build, maybe I'll just go WILD and slap that new fangled Win2K in there. Sometimes I just gotta venture out on the bleeding edge, wildman that I am...

 

[Geekbabe]

<< "...step up to a real OS !!"

Yeah, next PC I build, maybe I'll just go WILD and slap that new fangled Win2K in there. Sometimes I just gotta venture out on the bleeding edge, wildman that I am... >>




Ohhh..it is sooo robust and stable, you'll love it really you will

 

[GermyBoy]

Win2k is da bomb. I installed it 2 weeks ago. Installed all my drivers then, restarted and now my uptime is...

Uptime( 2wks 7hrs 36mins 53secs) [from MIRC]

 

[Hubris]

I went back to W2K last week sometime, but I didn't have a driver disk for my ATA100 drives here at school, so W2K refused to see my drives. So I put XP back on and it saw them without a hitch. Maybe next time I get the itch to format I'll go back to W2K (got my driver disk when I went home this weekend), but I'm sticking with XP for a while.

 

[boi]

WinXP IMO is slower than Win2k. Whenever I would open many things in WinXP, the computer would slow down for like 2 minutes. =(

 

[Gooberlx2]

Oh man alive do I want to go back to win2k. I just don't have the motivation/time to backup all my data and reinstall everything.

 

[Red Dawn]

The l33t have spoken

Damn, I guess my lying eyes are deceiving me again. WIN XP must be slower that I perceive it to be. All the "Candy Land" GUI must have clouded my brain.