Win 2K Upgrade question?? Please Help!!

[MrX]

Hi, I have a Dell system w/ a P2 233, voodoo3/2k pci, 96 MB Ram. My question is that i currently run WinME any ive had enough of the 9x kernel and im thinking about going with Win2K Pro Is this a good idea? Will my proformance improve significantlly? Is Wi2K a good Primary OS(i want to completely get rid of ME)?

Thanks for your help!!

btw: Which major software progs have probs with W2K

 

[reicherb]

your performance will be degraded.

 

[Panther505]

The system will probably be moderately to very slow depending on the apps that you run. I would recommend that you upgrade the RAM in the system to a minimum of 128 MB

 

[obenton]

W2k won't upgrade ME - you'd have to upgrade 98 or 98SE. The only advantage for you of w2k would be stability. No speed advantage. Also, older computers often have hardware that is not w2k compatible - check the MS w2k hardware compatibility list at http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/upgrade/compat/default.asp

 

[Wik]

I have Win2k running on several systems. One being a P166 with 112 megs ram. It was a little slow when I only had 80 megs in it, but now runs pretty good with the 112. Windows 98 runs pretty fast on it but ME did not. So I would say go for it. I went Win2k on my main system about a year ago and use it for Games, Photos, DVDs. There are only one thing I use 98/ME for and that would be to use my steering wheel (no 2k drivers yet).

 

[BigDady92]

Go with 2000. I have used it since it came out and have nothing but rave reviews for it. It's compatible with all the latest games( ya still gotta install some of it as admin!), uses NTFS for file security and stability, and is virtually easy to diagnose with event viewer and all the fun utilities you get with the add-on cd's.

Upgrade and enjoy.

 

[Tsaico]

I would say go for it too. You will want to upgrade the ram thgough, as much as you can. WIndows 2k is notorious for hogging up ram.I would do a clean install though, not an upgrade. I have heard all sorts of horror stories when doing it that way, but have yet to have a problem myself with a clean install. Good luck.