what's the best OS? cause im having bugs in ME

[Battousai^]

what are the known bugs in Windows ME version 4.90.3000, well the only bug I experienced is the dial-up network, every time I dial and there's another application open (Winamp, MediaPlayer, Flash5) the cpu freezes. is there a service update for windows ME?

[edwelly]

I had an issue within ME also, very similar. Every time you dial out to the Internet, it thinks you are on a LAN. I change it to always dial my default conn. and guess what, it goes right back to the LAN.
Anyway, as far as the best OS goes, man, I think that is strictly an opinion. Personally, I LOVE WIN2000 PROF. I have ran Win3.1, 95, 98, 2000 Prof. and Server. I have not tried any Linux YET, but some of the guys/gals here swear by it.
Glad to have you here with us…
- http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif-edwelly

[sharder8]

edwelly is right! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

It kind of comes down to personal opinion, and mine is W2000Pro as well. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif Much more stable, better security, no crashes.

Harder

[NDC]

I with the above as well. The best OS's I've used from MS is NT4 and Win2k.

[hirschY]

As far as M$ O$'s go, Win2K is the best!
Never have I installed an OS that just WORKS from the start!
Even on new PC's, it will run EVEN without the correct drivers, for most things (still have issues with certain printers)

Good luck, and remeber, you cant upgrade to Win2k from ME, you have to start fresh.

[LostBok]

I currently always recommend win2000pro... if you REALLY need to run old games (and I meant OLD), in which case I'd recommend win98 and win2000pro, with win2000pro as the default. Keep in mind that even Quake 1 and AoE2 run better in NT/win2000! I jsut have an old P2-300Mhz whihc has a 3gig FAT32 C: partitions and th erest as NTFS for win2000 - just remember that win98 can't read NTFS, but that you REALLY ought to be running win200 on NTFS, not that I find this a nuisance as I only use win98 briefly for specific games and store all my essential data on a win2000 server (running win2k pro only).

laters!
LostBok

[shahani]

For home, Win98SE. For networked environment: Windows 2000. Win2K is the most stable though. But downside is it is very resource hungry.

[edwelly]

It sure is nice to be told that people agree with me, given the amount of collective knowledge here.
Man, you guys/gals made my day...
---edwelly

[KRAMER]

What exactly are the down sides to Win2000? I mainly run games and a lot of online activity/gaming. I'm currently running Win98 SE and it is pretty stable, but I do get problems now and then. I would seriously consider Win2000 if I knew that I could do everything I can with Win98. My system is an 800 Athlon on an ABIT KA7, 256 pc133, SB Live X-gamer, Geforce 32mb DDR. I guess I've just always heard of problems running games and driver issues with Win2000, any truth in that? Thanks.

[NDC]

Mostly game incompatibility for Win2k. Some games have tweaks you can make to get them running in Win2k. However, some just won't run period, even the new games... As for driver availability, most hardware manufacturers already have released Win2k drivers. As for most, not all older hardware, Win2k will automatically load the drivers when Win2k is installed. Personally, I haven't had any hardware incompatibility on any of my systems which all run Win2k.

[This message has been edited by NDC (edited 09-07-2001).]

[hirschY]

The best way to judge which games are not Win2K compatible would be go to the makers web site.
See if they have any issues listed for win2K.
If you dont see any, than its a good bet it will work. Or they might have a patch for known issues.
The system you listed above should run Win2K nicely.

my 2¢

by the way, you can make the cent mark by holding alt and press numbers 155

[This message has been edited by hirschY (edited 09-07-2001).]

[KRAMER]

So if I were to decide to use a dual boot arrangement, how would I go about adding Win2k to my system, given that I have one large partition and would rather not reformat nor use any third party software to set up new partitions? Will the Win2k install give me the option of creating a new partition out of the free space on my hard drive? Just trying to see what the least painful option would be. Thanks.

[rowan]

an OS?

Red Hat 7.1

Set your machine to dual boot Win2000 so you can still run any proprietary software that you're dependent on. For everything else, go with Linux.

r.

[NDC]

Go to the link below to see software and hardware compatibility.
http://www.ntcompatible.com/

[Reddog]

Partition Magic has dual boot capabilities, I think. You can do it yourself, but it is very hard to do.

[Battousai^]

WIN 200 professional. I guess I would go straight forward to it, btw is win 2000 prof preferably for home use? or is it ok for use in practicing flash 5, pc gaming, internet, practicing adobe, and doing office works? well if the best os is win 2000 prof well then I dont have no choice but to go straight forward to win 2000 prof, well thanks for all of the recommendations and suggestions people!

[stooge007]

go win the good old win 98!! i've had soo much trouble with win 2k and getting drivers if you have older cards like sound, etc

[NDD]

Poll : What is YOUR Operating System ? (http://www.sysopt.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/013023.html) - a little (6 pages long http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif ) poll I had few months ago ... read it, and maybe my "final thoughts" at the end http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Best Regards ...