Windows 2000

DeepFriedCookies

I just installed it in a Virtual Machine, and I just realized why I loved it so much again. It's just so elegant. It's smooth, pretty bug free, just as stable as XP, yet it's extremely clean. The desktop is smooth enough that all I really do to it is add another wallpaper to it. It also even manages to be pretty expandable, and modular.. Since 90% of the apps I use are third party, it's perfect.

I dunno, just felt like raving. I missed it. x3

nikkigreg1974

I love it too. I have it installed on my old compaq evo d510. The only down side is that you can't really go online with it anymore. A lot of pages don't support ie6 and last version of firefox is 12 and it keeps popping a message top of the browser saying that you got plugin out of date. But it's a good system to have if you don't want all the flash of xp on your computer.

DeepFriedCookies

I've had no problems with FF8 in the VM lol.

demetron303

I've used the 2000 VM as well and I think it might even be better than 7. Not in support, of course, but in design. Guess I like simplicity.

nikkigreg1974 wrote:

I love it too. I have it installed on my old compaq evo d510. The only down side is that you can't really go online with it anymore. A lot of pages don't support ie6 and last version of firefox is 12 and it keeps popping a message top of the browser saying that you got plugin out of date. But it's a good system to have if you don't want all the flash of xp on your computer.

I have a Compaq Presario 7000 that use to have 98SE on it. But, as with so many other cases, I upgraded to XPSP3.

gdea73

Win2K was great, I'm almost positive Opera 11 can run on it, I haven't tried Opera 12 but it could potentially work.

I had Win2K on my Dell Inspiron 5000 laptop a while back, and it was fine for the purpose of web browsing with Opera 11.

DeepFriedCookies

The newest versions of FF can be forced to run on it. Really, I don't understand why SP2 XP is considered the minimum for a lot of things. Windows 2000 seems like a cut down XP anyway.

nikkigreg1974

I don't understand why the make programs cut off for windows xp sp2. I know Piriform started to make it's one program ccleaner to work for windows 2000 again. So i guess you could call that a plus. I think any program that works with windows xp should be made to work with windows 2000. Since x and 2000 are so closely same. Windows xp just has a new paint job and a few new programs add to it. Well that's my take on it. Will it ever happen nope.

BlueSun

nikkigreg1974 wrote:

Windows xp just has a new paint job and a few new programs add to it.

Um, no.

DeepFriedCookies

Yeah. 2000 is fun for a blast from the past, but seriously XP added quite a few features that make it better than 2000 in a lot of ways. Still, I do miss the vintage feel of 2000 in a lot of ways. I'm thinking 7 is probably the best version of Windows we'll see out of this generation still..