Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional w/ SP2 - Branded

Ive read the reviews of the other...

Strengths: Doesnt crash period. Ive run battlefield, doom3, and others but it cant get better than this. XP Pro is slower and less stable.

Weakness: none it is a little boring to look at though

Ive read the reviews of the other users and I have to say that of all the MS OSs 2000 is the best. Ive built computers and Ive tested every os since 98 on my machines and 2000 is the most stable. I use it on my main office server and that computer has run for 4 years without crashing once. It takes up less space and system speed than xp and it beats the hell out of me

By CrucibleX - Apr 15, 2005

Win2K is at SP4. Very stable. It...

Strengths: Based on NT, Stable, NTFS (no chkdsk on crash, but no crashes either), SP4, not slower than win98SE

Weakness: system resource consumption

Win2K is at SP4. Very stable. It still wont fix or work around H/W problems; newer systems are a must; System consumes 128MB memory, 2G HD space (with no bells or whistles) and takes upto 5% CPU. Fix all ur h/w problems first - like get the latest BIOS for MB, dont mix up AGP8X board with 2X board etc etc. WinXP is not as stable, but has better features (commentary of some reviewers not...
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Win2K is at SP4. Very stable. It still wont fix or work around H/W problems; newer systems are a must; System consumes 128MB memory, 2G HD space (with no bells or whistles) and takes upto 5% CPU. Fix all ur h/w problems first - like get the latest BIOS for MB, dont mix up AGP8X board with 2X board etc etc.

WinXP is not as stable, but has better features (commentary of some reviewers not withstanding). NTFS is better with XP, large disk support better, better defrag, better MFT location, upto 15% faster (if you believe MS) etc etc. 2K will be phased out in 2 yrs but XP will coexist for a while with longhorn, so base your decision on that too...

lastly, for a novice, ignore comparisons between Win & Mac. They support distinctly different Hardware. Have a PC, use Win; Have apple H/W, use MacOS. Unix for PC is for computation intensive applications, not much consumer application support yet.

By nsrkrishna - Aug 20, 2003

I have been using Win2KPro for...

Strengths: Stablity, Security, Levels of access

Weakness: NOT VERY MANY, Microsoft Product

I have been using Win2KPro for about 7 months, I play games, run my network, and listen to music and watch DVDs. It works great with my NEW RADEON 8500. In short this is a very stable OS that has very few compatibility problems. I had no problem upgrading from 98SE, however, with all Microsoft products a CLEAN install is HIGHLY recommended. All my software except Audiocatalyst 2.1 works well with...
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I have been using Win2KPro for about 7 months, I play games, run my network, and listen to music and watch DVDs.
It works great with my NEW RADEON 8500.

In short this is a very stable OS that has very few compatibility problems. I had no problem upgrading from 98SE, however, with all Microsoft products a CLEAN install is HIGHLY recommended. All my software except Audiocatalyst 2.1 works well with this OS.

Uses much less system resources than Win98 SE. No problems with games, Starcraft, Mechwarrior 4, Janes USAF ...

Highly recommend that you use this instead of Win XP. Later if you decide that XP has enough support to work well you can easily upgrade, even if you have converted your drive to NTFS partition.

My business network works EXTREMELY well with WIN2kPro.

FINALLY a Microsoft product that works as it should.

PS DO NOT TRY XP. It is garbage.

By chrismacan - Feb 3, 2002

I tried to develop software with...

Strengths: Relatively reliable

Weakness: Slower than Windows ME Insecure, and occasionally crashes

I tried to develop software with MS-ME, but had too many crashes, so now I use Windows 2000.
I use it vanilla style, and avoid some of its extra features which are Microsoft centric.
There is a feature to help recover lost files. I avoid that one, since the software of that feature contracted a virus on my system.

By daGrab - Oct 15, 2002

I found this website because my...

Strengths: None that I did not find in Windows 98 SE.

Weakness: Very unstable; constantly crashes; would not select text before SP3; CTRL ALT DEL does not work since SP3; incompatible with many devices.

I found this website because my computer came with Windows 2000 Pro pre-installed and I am looking for another OS to put on it instead. It is hard to believe some others gave it such a good rating; my own experience with it has been incredibly bad. I used Windows 98, then 98SE, for years before getting this computer, and had no trouble with them at all. When I got my Tecra 8100 with Win 2000 and...
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I found this website because my computer came with Windows 2000 Pro pre-installed and I am looking for another OS to put on it instead. It is hard to believe some others gave it such a good rating; my own experience with it has been incredibly bad.

I used Windows 98, then 98SE, for years before getting this computer, and had no trouble with them at all. When I got my Tecra 8100 with Win 2000 and found it would not select text, it sat in its case unused until my 98SE computer crashed from a virus. I have tried installing the service packs and am finally giving up on Windows 2000 Pro.

For my work, a computer that won't select text is virtually useless. This was supposedly corrected in Service Pack 3, but after installing SP3, I found it still would not select because the user.exe file was not updated. I installed a hotfix that includes the new user.exe, but now CTRL ALT DEL does not work - and with this OS, it is needed constantly because there is one crash after another. Most recently, the index entries for two drivers were spontaneously deleted, and now it will start in normal mode only after it has been started 5 or 6 times in Safe Mode.

It seems to me that Win 2K was badly designed in the first place and Microsoft has been tinkering with it ever since, fixing one bug only to introduce new bugs. They will never get it right. I am going back to Windows 98 SE, and only wish it were still supported.

By SDianaS - Aug 7, 2003