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Win NT or Win 2000

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polyeric

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The CSU school system made a deal with microsoft a while back to sell some of their software for really cheap to students and faculty. I noticed that I can get Win NT or Win 2000 for around $20 each. I have WIN 98 now but planning to totally redo my system. What is the difference from win 98,NT, and 2000. What should I install.(or should I install them all)
 
go with win2k. u won't have the bsd (blue screen of death) and is much more stable than win98. make sure u get plenty of memory cause win2k is a memory hog.
 
I've used both, and I'd say 2k is much better. Even with SP5, NT wasn't as stable as 2k. Both are memory hogs, so no matter what, you'll need at least 128MB RAM. 2K also does games much better, recognizes new hardware, etc.
 
Hell with memory or stability, I just think NT runs pretty slow.

If you have enough memory, Windows 2000 runs just as fast as 98 and its stability rocks.
 
Big thumbs up for the meory hog, stability and games.

If we could just get the memory hog out of the picture, I'd have no complaints with the OS.

But yes, if you're mostly familiar with a Win98/NT environment, you'll really get the best of both. Not so many crashes, much less rebooting, and very easy driver maintainance. For anyone who's installed drivers for anything but a graphics card in NT, you'll know what I'm talking about. Having a 9x-style device manager was a godsend. Win2k has found a corporate home for this feature alone.
 
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