Windows 2k Pro or XP Pro

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Thedevilsson
I say XP pro corporate version. I got it and love it, no activation or any of the BS. Installs like 2000 or 98! NO ACTIVATION!

And where, exactly did you get this?
Bill

 

[thraxes]

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: Thedevilsson
I say XP pro corporate version. I got it and love it, no activation or any of the BS. Installs like 2000 or 98! NO ACTIVATION!

And where, exactly did you get this?
Bill

Bwahahaha... BUSTED!

BTW I vote and use Win2K! There is nothing that I do or can't do on the PC that would give me a reason to upgrade to XP at the moment.

 

[mee987]

Originally posted by: thraxes

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: Thedevilsson
I say XP pro corporate version. I got it and love it, no activation or any of the BS. Installs like 2000 or 98! NO ACTIVATION!

And where, exactly did you get this?
Bill

Bwahahaha... BUSTED!

BTW I vote and use Win2K! There is nothing that I do or can't do on the PC that would give me a reason to upgrade to XP at the moment.

one of my friends and i go back and forth on this issue weekly... if you have never used XP, no sh-t, you dont see the need to upgrade. but ive gone back and forth between the two, and i always start noticing the little things that xp has over win2k. nothing like 2k vs 98, but useful stuff nonetheless. quick cut and paste from the discussion we had on another forum:

1. winxp image viewer. its exactly what i need in an image viewer. im not saying its the ultimate app, but its perfect for me. loads quickly, has support for all the file types i need, and the screen doesnt get cluttered up with a bunch of toolbars and image editing stuff i dont need. i like it.
1.a. I can use the image viewer to save a jpeg as a bmp or vice versa. useful if you dont have photoshop installed or are just doing a quick job. it does a horrible job with gifs though.
2. windows-L. i can lock my pc with this simple key combo. once you get used to it, its annoying as hell to have to live without it. kinda like windows-break. i was trying to fix someones computer a few weeks ago and they had no break key. AAAHHHHH
3. integrated zip support. after a fresh format its nice to be able to install drivers in the order I want instead of having to install winrar first.
4. 3 rows of icons in the system tray (when running double-thick taskbar). i used to make fun of people that had a dozen icons in the system tray, but i actually have quite a few that i use down there. dtools, f@h, mirc, trillian, volume, dumeter, mbm, NAV, and thats just what i see down there right now. what i can fit in a 3x3 square, win2k has to use 5 columns to do.
5. i get a high color display even before installing video drivers.
6. I hate how win2k/win9x have to have a solid color under the text labels of desktop icons. i love the "drop shadow" setting in winxp. every once in a while when trying to disable some of the visual effects i disable this on accident, and man it looks like crap.
7. winxp detects my gravis gamepad pro without problems, win2k doesnt. and drivers from gravis dont support win2k

all minor stuff, i know... but it adds up. if anyone has some good pro-win2k arguments id love to hear them. when i say good i mean not "it looks like a 5yr olds pc" and other stuff like that.

 

[Schadenfroh]

if your worried about compatability, 2k has the compatability mode that xp has, its just hidden by default. there is a registry patch that will display the tab.

 

[rmrf]

I think with everything that has been discussed, it just goes to show that XP is an unstable OS. I have been required to reactivate from a mere hdd installation, others have installed hdd's video cards, and memory without having to reactivate and so on. In my mind, I don't know if I would want an OS that doesn't know whether it is coming or going. W2k is what I am going to stick with, it works fine with games, and as far as networking goes I will stick with a linux distro that best suites the networking need. All OS's have their pros and cons, XP just seems to have more cons with the instability of activation process and just all around how it works. This is just my opinion, and I am giving it hoping someone will get what they want out of it.

 

[skyking]

Originally posted by: bsobel

You must be using a cracked version of xp then, because in this link, it says that the reactivation has been changed from immediately after reboot to 3 days after the hardware change. You should maybe check where you are getting your software, or stop giving knowledge on an pirated copy of software.

Perhaps you should stop giving the advice, as your simply wrong. You do not have to activate after every hardware change, just certain ones (hd's and mb's are big ones). Video cards, net cards and others will usually not result in reactivation unless you change a number of them at the same time.

Bill

I recently got a package of various hardware from a trader, and tested it all in my xp pro machine (legit retail copy).
I tried vidcard after vidcard, soundcards, at least 6 nics, scsi controllers, and a second hard drive.
I think it is about a 50/50 chance that you will have to reactivate after ghosting to a new hd, but after all that other hardware testing, I had no issues. However the point system works, it seems that you will have to reactivate after any mobo change. Other than that, my experience with it has been positive, it has been tolerant to a lot of BS and keeps on trucking.....................

 

[mee987]

Originally posted by: rmrf
I think with everything that has been discussed, it just goes to show that XP is an unstable OS. I have been required to reactivate from a mere hdd installation, others have installed hdd's video cards, and memory without having to reactivate and so on. In my mind, I don't know if I would want an OS that doesn't know whether it is coming or going. W2k is what I am going to stick with, it works fine with games, and as far as networking goes I will stick with a linux distro that best suites the networking need. All OS's have their pros and cons, XP just seems to have more cons with the instability of activation process and just all around how it works. This is just my opinion, and I am giving it hoping someone will get what they want out of it.

instability of the activation process? THATS your reason to stick with win2k?

if you do your research, you will find that overall, winxp is not slower OR less stable. sure, some people have isolated problems. but plenty of people have problems with every other OS, including win2p.

i personally use winxp pro corporate which doesnt need activation. im not sure if its legal since i only have a liscence for regular xp pro, but morally i feel ok about it and i dont think the fbi is gonna show up on my doorstep over the issue.

i've yet to hear a good reason to stick with win2k (unless you already bought it, then its probably not worth the cash to move up to xp)

 

[Hardware411]

In my experience Windows XP PRO is more automated then windows 2000 even tough they basically have the same engine? well i call it an engine. also, XP is quite nice and more the simple minded user friendly... further u can setup a network when u frist run it by answering some basic questions.

2000 pro also runs a bit slower, in my expereince... or maybe its because i had 2000 Advanced server. well i tried both 2000s and all are slower then XP.

GET XP PRO and if u can Jack a Corp version less head aches with the installs and customizations. and hardware changes

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forgotten to mention that the windows xp has updated its communications with the CDRW, and now you shouldnt realy have any buffer underflows, and it also optomizes burning its made with multimedia user in mind. I have seen 1 min less in burning time on the same cdrw with the same item burned when i have moved to xp.