Win 2K or Win ME?

[BrianRick111]

I am a home user who does quite a bit of gaming and web browsing. I have dvd and cd writer. The question is should I go with 2000 Pro or Win ME? Does 2K Pro have full DVD and CDRW support? Just looking for a little help

 

[gunf1ghter]

This comes up pretty much daily.

In a nutshell, win2k.

win2k has all the gaming support you would ever need once you install directX8 and all the latest hardware drivers, it's more stable than WinME, WinME is a piece of junk and I think it will be quickly forgotten.

 

[potz]

2k is the best... rock solid stability. if u play any ea games tho, you should dual boot since ea still doesn't understand that you can actually play games in w2k

 

[Johnpk]

Win2k. Just make sure all your drivers are up to date.

 

[TheVrolok]

Absolutely 2k. ME is proving to be less stable every day, IMHO. And 2k is proving to be more so. From my own experience I've had some problems burning CDs, I had to switch from Easy CD Creator to CDRWin but that's no biggie. Other than that, 2k r0xs 🙂

 

[Biggs]

If you're an AMD-VIA user, then you sould consider that running Win 2K *might* screw up your CD-Writer. There have been a few issues regarding this which, hopefully, gets fixed with the upcoming Servie Pack 2.

 

[Goalkeepr]

I have a Plextor 12/10/32 and I have trouble burning CD's a lot of the time.
I never had these problems with WinME. What's the AMD/VIA problem you were talking about?

 

[Pyxis]

Without a doubt, Win2K.

 

[gr8snakee]

I am pretty big into the ea sports games. So they wont work at all in Win 2K Pro?