Category: Geeks r Us
About a month and a half ago, I wrote about computer issues that I was having. At the time, I was using a desktop gateway computer that had windows millennium, from way back in 2001! Well, about a week ago, I turned it on and it bleeped and blooped at me like an r2d2 unit. After all of the problems that it'd put me through, all the system restores, the microsoft office programs crashing the computer, outlook express crashing it, the virus problems, the troubleshooting and gently maneuvering and tricking it...it finally gave up the ghost. So I took it to a shop and they said it was a motherboard that really wasn't incirculation anymore, but they had a used one. They said they'd put win2k on it and life would be good. Ack at losing over six years worth of work, programs, files, documents, etc. Ahh well, can't go back now. It's still in the shop and right now I am on a laptop with XP (too bad I can't find the disks). The acclmation to a laptop keyboard was just too much so I plugged in the receiver to the wireless and life is great on that front, and holy smokes, I hardly have to reboot this thing.
In any case, I'm just curious as to how win2k stacks up in terms of operating systems. And, I'm just trying to get used to XP on my laptop. It's all been an interesting time, let me tell ya!
So thanks to all of your advice about the desktop. All of that dragging my feet to avoid formatting didn't really help me in the long run, but you live and learn.
Hugs,
Meka
If u r using jaws, don't bother with win 2 k. Home edition doesn't work at all, and even jaws pro is somewhat spotty on win 2 k machines that I've messed with. I know this isn't what U wanted to hear, but maybe you could upgrade the machine from win 2 k to win xp? BTW, microsoft no longer supports win 2k. And don't even get me started on ME, that thing was the biggest piece of crap Micoosoft ever put out. I think all users of Melenium adition should get a free upgrade to some other OS. I used it for 2 years, and let's just say it tought me how much it's possible to sware.
I'd have to disagree with KC8 here. I used win2k with jaws for a few years, and in some way liked it even better than XP. Only issue I saw with it was the fact that it took a bit longer to boot. (and I put that poor system through a good deal at the time.)
yeah win2k works quite ok with jaws and has quite good stability. It's good for what it is, though it is true that it is not currently supported by microcrap. Also, windows millenium is truly a horrible OS.
Seriously, even if Win2k is fine (I used it for a while) can't Gateway guys put Windows XP Home edition on it. I feel that's the least they can do for you. It's not an expensive operating system at all.
Also, even if the motherboard is dead you should still be able to retrieve programs, files and such from your hard drive, as long as that's all right. The guys could either put the hard drive into the new machine or in an external hard drive case so that you can recover the contents of the hard drive. I think that'd definitely be something worth looking into.
I run Windows XP Pro at home (but have also ran the Home edition) and I have to say I'm pretty impressed. I restart my computer about once every week or so, just because it feels a tad bit sluggish. I put that thring through a lot and have suffered no crashes in months. And, I have to say, stay away from Gateway in future. I've just never ever heard anything good about them (sadly) except in their commercials. I've had very good experience with HP desktops (once you've removed their annoying 90-day trial crap) and custom builds may not be so bad at all. They tend to be not too expensive. You can get a very good desktop for $500 and, yes, it's not exactly the cheapest but it'll last you for years with good and stable performance, unless they give you the stuff for free you might want to consider just switching over, and get another computer, plain and simple.
Best of luck to ya.
Cheers
-B
Ahh, shame about all your stuff.
Personally i really like win 2k, the only thing is its boot time, but apart from that, you get the speed of xp and everything; can't comment about jfw though as im a supernova user.
Personally, i wouldn't upgrade to xp home because your computer probly won't handle it that well.
That's interesting. Maybe there was some setting I didn't have right when I tried win 2k? Ok, I stand corrected then. Sorry for the misinformation.
well. windows 2000 was steller for what it was. and me you can't do shit. I'm glad microsoft doesn't support it. Xp is cheap these days. Just keep that laptop and just buy a new desktop or something like that.