benefits of 2k over 98 are huge.
if so, can you please mention any?
here's what I see.
-no improvement in stability (why, cause my systems' rock stable as it is)
-huge increase in system requirements
-however there are some benefits, besides stability (when you're a moron who doesn't know WTF uninstall is!), like better memory management, and better support for multiple users.
ok, I'm being a bit extreme when I accuse the user of being the one at fault when it comes to keeping 9x stable, but it's the truth, 90% of the time, it is because of something that the user has done (tweaks gone awry, installing tons of shareware, or installing Norton software, and even worse, UNINSTALLING it).
I find that windows 9x does especially well when you don't have much going on. using the norton Antivirus example, that is one of the worst Anti Virus programs to get, if you want to keep system resources to a minimum. I recommend McAfee, becuase they have supported my (at least) 2 year old version for a long time, and they don't consume so many resources (heh, it's still pretty bad though).
so, my solution is this. I don't even have McAfee, or Norton Anti Virus running all the time. plain and simple, I run Distributed.net, Volume control (of course), and PS/2 Rate on start up.
at any one moment, you won't find me running more then 6 or 7 programs (counting the ones that are running in background).
mostly what I do is have Winamp, and Netscape open (however I can have multitudes of Netscape windows open without a problem), perhaps with notepad open to use to take notes etc..
don't install any of those tweaking programs, learn to do the tweaks manually in registry and .ini file configurations.
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