It doesn't remember my display settings. If I switch resolutions, it will go to 85hz, 75hz, or whatever it feels like. If I had 1024*768 set to 100hz, then I switch to 800*600, when I switch back to 1024*768 it will be back at default.
You can't even stick the thing on the systray like in 98/95...
Games also seem stuck at 60, 75, or 85 hz....
The audio drivers really suck. It's like directx is enabled all the time. It lets multiple programs play sound at the same time, but doesn't give me any control over that. Another minus for microsoft. If I want that ability I'll set my programs to directx sound, ok MS? This also makes the sound MUCH more lag-prone. While in 95 or 98 you could have total and complete lag and mp3s would never skip cause winamp just wouldn't quite run out of its 2second buffer, with win2000 it doesn't matter, winamp will cut off even after 200ms even if it has plenty of buffer left, because it's just like directx.
The APM support really sucks ass. Windows 95 can shut off the PC and go into suspend without having to be set up or anything. Windows 98 works the same way. With 2000, the suspend feature isn't even available, and shutdown doesn't work right. It turns off the hard-drive, but reboots the computer thus making the hard-drive spin down and then back up for nothing.
The version of scandisk that w2k uses really sucks ass. It's like some version of chkdsk from my PC DOS 6.0 I had 6 or 7 years ago...
The OS also often likes to access the A: drive for some reason. Oftentimes I will hear a weird click noise come from the PC when I do something, and i've found that it comes from the floppy drive. When I first boot up the OS, the floppy light stays on until I stick a disk in.
I applied all critical updates.
You think after all this time, Microsoft would spend some time getting rid of these bugs?
As a side note, I really, really hate Media Player 7.0. It's one of the biggest piles of crap ever to come out of Microsoft Headquarters. It takes 5 or 6 times more CPU then Winamp to play an MP3, and that's without equalizer. If I enable the equalizer It shoots up to 100% and the MP3 starts skipping horribly. There's no way to disable the crappy visualization effects which lag like hell that I can see. When you rip a song off of a CD it doesn't even tell you or ask you were to put it, and you can only rip in WMA format. Again.. MS should have just stuck to the original "mplayer.exe" (or at least the design they had in 6.0 which wasn't that bad) which doesn't come with or even work in w2k.
You can't even stick the thing on the systray like in 98/95...
Games also seem stuck at 60, 75, or 85 hz....
The audio drivers really suck. It's like directx is enabled all the time. It lets multiple programs play sound at the same time, but doesn't give me any control over that. Another minus for microsoft. If I want that ability I'll set my programs to directx sound, ok MS? This also makes the sound MUCH more lag-prone. While in 95 or 98 you could have total and complete lag and mp3s would never skip cause winamp just wouldn't quite run out of its 2second buffer, with win2000 it doesn't matter, winamp will cut off even after 200ms even if it has plenty of buffer left, because it's just like directx.
The APM support really sucks ass. Windows 95 can shut off the PC and go into suspend without having to be set up or anything. Windows 98 works the same way. With 2000, the suspend feature isn't even available, and shutdown doesn't work right. It turns off the hard-drive, but reboots the computer thus making the hard-drive spin down and then back up for nothing.
The version of scandisk that w2k uses really sucks ass. It's like some version of chkdsk from my PC DOS 6.0 I had 6 or 7 years ago...
The OS also often likes to access the A: drive for some reason. Oftentimes I will hear a weird click noise come from the PC when I do something, and i've found that it comes from the floppy drive. When I first boot up the OS, the floppy light stays on until I stick a disk in.
I applied all critical updates.
You think after all this time, Microsoft would spend some time getting rid of these bugs?
As a side note, I really, really hate Media Player 7.0. It's one of the biggest piles of crap ever to come out of Microsoft Headquarters. It takes 5 or 6 times more CPU then Winamp to play an MP3, and that's without equalizer. If I enable the equalizer It shoots up to 100% and the MP3 starts skipping horribly. There's no way to disable the crappy visualization effects which lag like hell that I can see. When you rip a song off of a CD it doesn't even tell you or ask you were to put it, and you can only rip in WMA format. Again.. MS should have just stuck to the original "mplayer.exe" (or at least the design they had in 6.0 which wasn't that bad) which doesn't come with or even work in w2k.
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