upgrade OS? no way

[alondra]

just received a msg from Dummys Daily,that win 2000 will not recognize 150 items. including some printers. they gave a link but it didn,t work, got page not found, Ill stick with 98

[Joel Kleppinger]

Sometimes tradeoffs are worth it.

And if your printer doesn't work in Win2k, it probably isn't an HP (and therefore.... well, I won't go there http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif).

[RobRich]

You mean a MicroShaft operating system actually has documented bugs? http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

BTW, my personal pref for printers is Cannon. To each their own. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Robert Richmond

[jad1097]

Only 150! Well that is not bad at all. I bet that list was at least three times that size a year ago.

I talked a friend into installing W2K not long ago. They bought a 3-n-1 printer/scanner/fax machine and the scanner does not work in W2K. She went back to Win95 and within a few days W2K was reinstalled. She said "I am spoiled and will never use 95 again". And she is running it on a 233MHZ HP.



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[GroundZero3]

well i threw win2k on my moms sony 300 64mb worked great!! it was really fast and barely lagged. then i had to setup the printer for it an Epson Stylus color 600 and there was no drivers for it http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif now im stuck with winme http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif man i hate the 9x kernel

Jason

[Variable]

sometimes you can work around the need for win2k drivers...just install the win9x drivers!! (it worked in the beginning!)

[alondra]

picky, picky. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif maybe some folks would like to use a cannon on their canon http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[GroundZero3]

i seriously doubt you can use 9x drivers with an nt platform. and if you could i thought that would casue some issues. don't really feel like formating and re installing blah

Jason

[RobRich]

I believe he meant NT drivers instead of Win9x, since Win2K utilizes a similar hardware abstraction layer as NT4. This pratice will "generally" work for several common hardware devices.

Robert Richond

[darkmallard]

silly double-post

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[darkmallard]

RobRich - Watch the spelling. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
I hope you meant Canon, not Cannon--big difference.

[Jim9999]

There's an Epson 640 printer driver for Windows 2000. You might give it a shot.

It amazes me that people want to pretend Microsoft doesn't document problems. I guess it's just more fun to bash than admit.
http://support.microsoft.com

[AuraEdge]

The way I look at it, if it doesnt support a million devices, and I dont own any of them or plan to get any of them, then its all good.
I recently went back to Win2k after about 4-5 months on ME. I was sick of it crashing all the time, and acting all slow the morning after I left it on all night.
And before it usta not work with some of my games, but the 2 it didnt work with were single player games I beat over the course of the last 4 months. So now all operations are running smoothly. I always thought my machine was too good for a platform that causes my computer to not be as stable as it can possibly be.