Anyone using an older version of Windows?

Wednesday, March 7, 2007 by hardknocklife | Discussion: Personal Computing

I was looking at the forums available, and noticed there wasn't a forum for older versions of Windows.

I want to know how many people are using Windows 2000 or older.

I'm using 2000. Not because I'm poor and couldn't afford the upgrade, but because I replaced XP with it.

I think 2000 is better than XP, because it IS XP, just without the RAM draining extras. The installer disc I used was around 600 MB, and that had 4 versions of 2000 on it. The XP install disc is about twice that

I also won't be using Vista. I like Vista, don't get me wrong, but the fact is... it's not really new. You can easily imitate Vista on XP, no problem. All vista is, is a bundle of stuff, with a different GUI... and that's not what I look for in an OS... I want an OS that does the job and does it quickly and effectively. That's why I use 2000.

So... Anyone using an older version of Windows?
14 Reply 6 Referrals
Island Dog
Reply #1 Wednesday, March 7, 2007 1:33 PM
Not here.  I'm using XP and Vista.

 

SanChonino
Reply #2 Wednesday, March 7, 2007 2:36 PM
My old computers have all been Linuxed.

barsinister
Reply #3 Wednesday, March 7, 2007 2:53 PM
i have 3.` installed on multi boot with XP and Vista

BuddhaV10
Reply #4 Wednesday, March 7, 2007 2:55 PM
i have a wide variety of OS's on my wonderously various machines. (wow that sounded dumb) so here goes...

Media Server-Windows 2000 Pro
Gamer-XP Pro, soon to be Vista Business
Power Station-XP x64 Pro
Media Center-Mac OS 10.4
Storage Server-Windows 2003 Server
Backup Storage Server-DOS 6.1
Fun Box1-Red Hat
Fun Box2-Kubuntu
Fun Box3-Mac OS 8.6
Fun Box4-Mac OS 9.1
all run fine, all are fun to use, all good. Oldies on most. best current runner is x64 pro. woot for those not afraid to use older software on newer machines. the Gamer used to have 2000, but my games started not liking it.

anyone here stranded on ME?

PoSmedley
Reply #5 Wednesday, March 7, 2007 3:29 PM
2000 on one desktop...95 on a laptop...98 on desktop..xp on other desktop

Gideon MacLeish
Reply #6 Wednesday, March 7, 2007 4:50 PM
I have a windows 95 computer, but only until I get it up and running Linux. I also have an Ubuntu 6.06 machine, and a Windows 2000/XP dual boot. I'll have a Vista machine before long, and Windows 2000 and XP server, and I'm currently purchasing older disk copies of operating systems (I need 98SE and I'm pretty much up with anything 95 or newer) to run on virtual machine platforms or older machines.

01161981
Reply #7 Wednesday, March 7, 2007 5:53 PM
Running 2000 Professional on a 65K RAM Pentium MMX with only 2 gig HD.

I love 1999!

I came here becuase soemone at work was telling me how I could make 2000 look like XP now I ended up registering for another forum . . .


pjdark
Reply #8 Wednesday, March 7, 2007 11:09 PM
xp on my des  ktop. shopping for vista machine for my fiancee and our kids.

PoSmedley
Reply #9 Wednesday, March 7, 2007 11:13 PM
I'm trying to figure out how t make a server from my older ones.

Jafo
Reply #10 Wednesday, March 7, 2007 11:31 PM

The installer disc I used was around 600 MB, and that had 4 versions of 2000 on it. The XP install disc is about twice that

I think you'll find that the size difference reflects the greater degree of driver/hardware compatibility built into XP, rather than simply 'bloat'.

I have one older machine with 98se [for Dos games], but the rest are on XP...


ZubaZ
Reply #11 Wednesday, March 7, 2007 11:32 PM
I'm trying to figure out how t make a server from my older ones

File server?  Music?  What are you trying to do?  Start a thread with what you want and lets see what happens?

tjesterb
Reply #12 Wednesday, March 7, 2007 11:42 PM
To anyone using an older version of Windows, you'll have to manually patch for the 2007 Daylight Saving Time change. (Well, at least if you're in the US)

The IntelliAdmin patching tool seems to work well. WWW Link

Skinhit
Reply #13 Wednesday, March 7, 2007 11:54 PM
To anyone using an older version of Windows


older than?

hardknocklife
Reply #14 Thursday, March 8, 2007 11:10 AM
I want to know how many people are using Windows 2000 or older.


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