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Windows 2000 - Is it any good today?

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Hello and Welcome to another Budget Builds Video where today we'll be taking a look at Windows 2000, as recently its been (sort of) classified as abandonware, and appearing for download on multiple sites, with the most common of those being "Winworld".
So join me today as we find out whether Windows 2000 is worth your time, or if youre better off just downloading Windows 10 direct from MS.
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@duncanward6226 5 лет назад

The day I upgraded from Windows 98SE to Windows 2000 was the birth of the modern computing era for me. Suddenly I went from rebooting Windows 98 every couple of hours when trying to get work done to literally weeks of uptime on Windows 2000. Ran beautifully on my bottom-end Pentium III at the time.

@RowanBird779 Год назад

I would also have weeks of uptime on my computer, Windows 98 kinda sucked tbh

@hifijohn Год назад

Because win2000 was completely different OS.and XP is just a fancy version of win2000.

@gmdking Год назад

@@hifijohnwindows 11 is a fancy version of 10 which is a fancy version of 8.1 which is a fancy version of 8 which is a fancy version of 7 which is a fancy version of vista which is a fancy version of xp which is a fancy version of 2000 which is a fancy version of NT 4.0 which is a fancy version of NT 3.1 so yeah.

@supercellex4D Год назад

@@gmdking NT is just fancy VMS, everyone is using VMS on DOS-compatible VAX CPUs (x86_64). We are all secretly using DEC machines, and Arm, Linux and Apple isn’t immune because Arm has DEC Alpha inspiration, Linux is inspired by Unix which got its start on a PDP-11, therefore we are all using fancy PDP’s

@TheGuruStud 9 месяцев назад

@@gmdkingXP kernel was pretty new. Vista was meant to be new, but it never worked. They had to just keep removing all of the features till it would run on XP kernel 😅 Yes, 2k was just a nicer NT4.

@thomastmc 4 года назад

I was an "unofficial" Windows 2000 beta tester in 1999. W2K was excellent, especially for the time.

@thomassmith4999 4 года назад

I was a beta tester also. I loved it so much I dual booted it with Linux on the same machine (A dual SMP modified celeron that later upgraded to PIII's) all the way from the Beta till 2012.. It never crashed not even once in all that time. By far the best Windows OS I ever used. (And I have used them all)

@Wegetsignal 3 года назад

2000 was hottest garbage. Eff that.

@thomastmc 3 года назад

@@Wegetsignal How can anyone disagree with such a compelling argument?

@incandescentwithrage 3 года назад

@@Wegetsignal You thinking of Windows ME? Can't think of anything else that would make you say that.

@m5a1stuart83 3 года назад

@@Wegetsignal 2K and 98 SE are good but ME and 98 not so much.

@GeneSavage 5 лет назад

Windows 2000 was the OS I NEVER wanted to leave... so clean, so solid! Glad it's still around.

@darkijah-andersjehovahsn7893 2 года назад

m2 and trying to return

@9852323 Год назад

That was XP for me but 2000 an 7 are my other favorite.

@realslimsh8y 11 месяцев назад

u can run it in a vm or dual-boot it incase u wanna use it, or switch to classic theme (or install classic theme if u have windows 10 and newer)

@ken131 5 лет назад

I used Windows 2000 until its retirement forced me to move on in 2009. I loved Win2k so much. My favorite version of Windows.

@damienhartley3222 4 года назад

@ken131 most people don't know or forgot that windows 2000 and me where different because Windows 2000 was the patched version of Windows ME and when the internet goes down and people are locked in a bunker they would be grateful for a PC with a large library of offline games

@jdatlas4668 3 года назад

@@damienhartley3222 Not exactly “patched version“, it’s a wholly different OS. Me was the very last of the 9x like of operating systems based on DOS, while 2000 was based on the much more stable NT kernel that MS used before for servers and workstations and that’s been the basis of every version of Windows since 2000/XP.

@damienhartley3222 3 года назад

@@jdatlas4668 Well technically the current master NT kernel is hybrid and can use 9x principal over hyper v which is using the native kernel in a isolated algorithm to protect the core system which is less hardware intensive than virtual pc which allows windows to be cost effective and Google optimized.

@thedungeondelver 5 лет назад

Man, when I got my hands on Win2000 at my office back in the day I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. I grabbed one of the OEM licenses and put it on my home machine and was as happy as a clam.

@niccatipay 5 лет назад

Your comment is wholesome approved! May good days be upon you mate.

@Damaniel3 5 лет назад

I skipped ME entirely and XP for the first couple years, choosing to run Win2K instead. It was by far the best choice at the time and still my favorite Windows version.

@Mmmm_tea 5 лет назад

agreed win2k was one of the best versions of windows to date, before activation was a thing the desktop install was clean fast small and had none of the feature bloat current windows suffers from, seven comes a close second or different reasons.

@dylanash2569 4 года назад

@@Mmmm_tea Same. I used 2000 till 2013, then moved to 7 and refused to get 10. I dread January 20, but I may still not upgrade. Windows 10 sucks!

@JamesnLollify 4 года назад

@@dylanash2569 Haha. I still have this old Windows 8.1 tablet.

@Generalkidd 5 лет назад

Windows 2000 is one of my favorite versions of Windows! I still keep an old Lenovo Thinkpad laptop running with Windows 2000 and Vista dual booted on it so I can run legacy software a lot better. With the unofficial SP5 for Windows 2000, I can actually run somewhat modern software on Windows 2000 and browse the modern web as well.

@me67galaxylife 2 года назад

hence why you had the startup sound as your intro

@UkrainiansWillLose 2 года назад

Doesn’t Windows XP have the same level of software support as Windows 2000 given the Extended Kernel is installed? What the hell sets it apart then on?

@retroindian1864 2 года назад

What is ur CPU, chipset and RAM?

@neoasura 5 лет назад

I loved Windows 2000. It was so simple and clean before the Fisher Price XP took over. I knew EVERYTHING about 2000 from all the issues I had with it, but was able to fix them. It was like that old beater car that only you know how to get started.

@Lofote 3 года назад

"Fisher Price XP" made my day :)... Yeah Win2000 was great. Of course getting used to Active Directory after the easy-to-learn NT domain took some time, but it was very well worth it :)

@brpadington 5 лет назад

Windows 2000 is the only version of Windows I actually enjoyed using. Rock solid stability and speed.

@lonttugamer2939 5 лет назад

I have never actually had to use 2000 but i adore it's simplicity. No bloat, just you and a fresh desktop. This is why i've tried multiple times to switch from windows 10 to linux, but i can't really make that switch as linux doesn't play well with hybrid graphics.

@eclecticreader961 5 лет назад

Hybrid graphics do make it complicated. How do you feel about switching to Windows XP?

@lonttugamer2939 5 лет назад

@@eclecticreader961 as in switching now, i dont think i will ever switch to XP again unless i decide to play old games again, but then again most of my old games work with windows 10.

@eclecticreader961 5 лет назад

It sounds like switching back to XP wouldn't have a purpose. What old games work with Windows 10?

@lonttugamer2939 5 лет назад

@@eclecticreader961 well i dont have many, but diablo II seems to work. Everything else i have is newer, like gta san andreas and vice city. I also have typing of the dead working fine. But from what ive witnessed its the hardware that determines what old games you can play on windows 10. None of my friends can even play gta dan andreas without tweaks on their modern gaming laptops.

@ProtoMario 5 лет назад

Through my own programming I was able to use Windows 2000 for many years, people noticed it and I tried to explain but they never understood. It wasn't until recently when I bought an entirely new system that I stopped using it, just due to the fact of simplicity and newer software not being supported. It's very much like linux if you can program for it, you are good as gold.

@prushimush 5 лет назад

I ran it until 2010 until I wanted to run some Win64 programs. At that point most games required hacks to run- which was OK, I would rather hack the game than run MS' bogus modern bloated software. At that point rather than knuckle under and adopt Vista et al. descendants I migrated to Debian on my laptop and Gentoo on my desktop. No modern Windows OS can match the leanness of Windows 2000; it is the last great iteration of Windows. There is no modern simple version of Windows, so I reserve a partition to dual boot Win10 as needed - thankfully not often.

@EstefanXimenes 5 лет назад

But proto, windows 2000 is so old....blah blah rant

@YakobtoshiNakamoto 5 лет назад

Pfft rookie. I'm running Win 2000 in the year 2135.

@AiOinc1 5 лет назад

I ran it until 2016 when I moved to a newer laptop with XP on it instead. The extra graphics power was needed and I wanted to run some newer software, so rather than sticking 2k back on I left it on XP.

@jordanvelazquez6321 5 лет назад

BUT PROTO WHAT ABOUT WINDOWS ME??

@CecilTheDarkKnight234 5 лет назад

good old windows 2000, such a great 0S that came packed with one of the best games ever made, SPACE PINBALL!

@Chowder908 5 лет назад

Fun fact that game is actually a demo of a game. With 2 other versions. Forget the name of the full version but with a little googling you could probably find it easily.

@KofolaDealer 5 лет назад

I think it was full tilt pinball

@Chowder908 5 лет назад

@@KofolaDealer yup full tilt that was it.

@somethingsinlife5600 5 лет назад

Cecil's Wayback Gaming Machine It was on XP as well.

@carltonleboss 5 лет назад

LGR did a video on it

@cheshirecat773 5 лет назад

I've installed my windows 2000 so often, that I accidentally memorized the 25 character CD-Key :/ Still my favorite Operating system.

@cheshirecat773 5 лет назад

@Kilo Byte Nah, my brain is just really good at memorizing random crap that I don't need. Numbers are easy, names are hard.

@greenknight9000 4 года назад

@Kilo Byte I'm more of a cockwaffle

@docsynth4387 4 года назад

2000 is great but so is 7

@cesarjavierbarbosa8318 4 года назад

@@docsynth4387 2000, XP, and 7 are best.

@redsquirrelftw 4 года назад

Haha that was me but with windows 98. I found 98 got slow over time and you had to reinstall it to make it fast again so I was installing it like once a week lol. I was a pretty heavy user that liked to program and install different programs etc so just from doing those things it did not take long for it to start slowing down again.

@gogomonow 4 года назад

"a measly 2.5 GHz" looks at laptop

@bruhpuh3327 4 года назад

it's one core lol

@joshwix1984 4 года назад

Clock speeds aren't a definitive measure of performance, the CPU he's using is a dinosaur

@JamesnLollify 4 года назад

My 2014 Windows 10 Laptop has a newer Intel Celeron and it runs at 1.40 GHz. My old Android 4 tablet with an Intel *_Atom_* runs at 1.44 GHz. How is my old tablet slightly faster than my laptop?

@vinson3725 4 года назад

i have an Acer Aspire 5920, and it runs at 1.9 GHz

@bojinglebells 4 года назад

as long as your laptop is relatively modern, it will run circles around a 2.5GHz Pentium 4, even at half the clock speed. Think of a 1 lane road with a 250mph speed limit, but with lots of traffic lights, vs. a 4 lane highway with 125mph speed limit and few if any traffic lights.

@ApolloTheDerg 5 лет назад

Why can’t we have modern windows this clean. No bloat, it works, and it doesn’t phone home. I spend a lot of time stripping down windows 10 systems just to make them unbloated and light, I shouldn’t have to use Group Policy to make my Pc work. JUST MAKE A BARE BONES SOLID EXPERIENCE THAT DOESNT PHONE HOME AND WE ALL WOULD BE HAPPY. Also none of this creators update garbage, I HATE that it forces its way into the computer when all you are trying to do is update office and the like. Hours wasted, broken updates again and again. This needs to stop.

@magsec5 5 лет назад

NightMare never gonna happen. Gotta make money somehow.

@attomicchicken 5 лет назад

Why don't you make a cut down slipstreamed install?

@southernstalliongaming7544 5 лет назад

You have a gross misunderstanding of why there are updates

@haileygarrett2783 5 лет назад

I have a couple of Windows machines I use as NAS's, and other random server-y things, and Windows 10 seems to like to restart them to update, when they, really, really shouldn't. Lost a bunch of data because "Oh we have an update for you, you have a machine that only 0.01% downtime is acceptable? Screw thee!" And unfortunately I run tools on them that really only work on Windows, not through WINE on Linux, as glorious as that would be. Freakin' love my Arch Linux desktop.

@alexanderblake5780 5 лет назад

UBUNTU, MAN!!! That's what I use. The dumb bug happened to me, but on Windows 7 somehow...

@sebischmitz777 5 лет назад

I used to run Win 2000 on a Pentium 3 way back as my first Desktop PC. It was as stable and fast as windows installs get. I loved the simplicity of it all. I even have a original Windows 2000 installation CD with an unused Product Key! Good old times...

@stefanrusu4094 5 лет назад

You got me nostalgic. PIII 733 512MB RAM Ti4200 Intel 815 IDE HD 120 GB & Win 2000 Pro. That was my setup in these old times (student in university)

@darkijah-andersjehovahsn7893 2 года назад

@@stefanrusu4094 Total overkill :P

@Sanzuyu 5 лет назад

Awwww I miss my old PC where i had Windows 2000 and XP dual boot Thank you for this video

@eclecticreader961 5 лет назад

If you miss your old P.C. you should go on Ebay and purchase one. Ebay has good prices :)

@xaernxd 5 лет назад

@@eclecticreader961 but the things were used in e-bay -.-

@eclecticreader961 5 лет назад

@@xaernxd , Yeah the things are used. Used electronics that are sold on Ebay are typically in good condition though, unless otherwise specified in the item description written by the seller. Many sellers offer free returns too, if there's a problem.

@xaernxd 5 лет назад

@@eclecticreader961 oh ok

@greycircularity 5 лет назад

*_when your computer is so powerful it can't run windows 2000_*

@gamertygonl 4 года назад

drivers

@cesarjavierbarbosa8318 4 года назад

Windows 2000 can. NT kernel are meant for that. Now when it comes to Windows 95 and 98/ME, that's where you might run into a issue.

@watermonkey9440 4 года назад

figured id check this out on an old pentium 4 from the depths of my closet.... but i get a stop000a5 the acpi bios is not fully compliant when installing win 2000

@cesarjavierbarbosa8318 4 года назад

Of course, don't try running that on a SSD. Rule of thumb, use a SSD if you're on Windows 7 and later.

@Jimmycozad1980 4 года назад

@@cesarjavierbarbosa8318 I use XP and 2000 on an SSD also by Using IObit smart defrag I don't have to worry about trim as as smart defrag has that and it works under 2000 XP and Vista.

@Lady_Zenith 5 лет назад

Windows 2000 have two major advantages over XP for retro machine gaming/testing. First is they do support non PNP ISA devices. Do you have ISA network card or non PNP sound card? Well, no luck on XP, but they do work on 2000. This makes it ideal dualboot OS together with win98 for the long DOS to 2002-4 era retro machine as you need those ISA devices for good DOS gaming and at the same time you want win2000 for modern networking and NT5 era software. Second point is that unlike XP, it boots anywhere. If XP does not have the drive controller driver it will not boot, nor it will boot if you throw it already installed to completely different computer. 2000 still have the legacy 16-bit PIO over bios HDD compatibility mode, so they pretty much always boot. Slowly , but they do, which allows you to install new drivers and boom there you go on new machine without reinstall. This is extra useful for testing and benchmarking purposes.

@BlackEpyon 5 лет назад

If you're using the machine for retro gaming, I'd recommend Windows 95 or 98SE. Windows 2000 ddin't have native DOS support, so some of the older games that required it would never work. Other than that, I found it to be an incredibly stable OS.

@eLJaybud 5 лет назад

Just update to slightly later hardware. It's hardly going to cost a lot.

@FeelingShred 4 года назад

This should also work for Win2000, but when I used XP back then in a Celeron D cpu, in order to make DOS games work inside a command prompt window I had to use a tool called VDMsound. My cpu wasn't ready for Dosbox yet, it was too heavy, and this allowed me to play all my DOS games normally in XP.

@TheTekknician 2 года назад

@@BlackEpyon With the unofficial SP5 pack I think, iirc, gaming is quite a bit more possible.

@philscomputerlab 5 лет назад

That was fun :) I've only used 2000 a handful of times. I see it stuck between 98 SE and XP, struggling to run software from both periods without mucking around. I do wonder when XP will make it the winworld site...

@Up8Y 5 лет назад

The next year or two seems likely. Of course, Windows 2000 lacking any online activation nonsense does make it slightly more convenient to use over XP- at least for earlier XP-era software and hardware. Assuming you're using unmodified installation files anyway.

@lopwidth7343 5 лет назад

Today, win2k is less sane than xp. But back in the early 2000s when xp was vanilla and sp1, it was really buggy still, so running windows 2k sp4 was the stable choice :)

@1978SOOTY 5 лет назад

You should do a video like this @PhilsComputerLab. Your videos are great!

@CarlosSMOfficial 5 лет назад

Windows XP will never make into WinWorld PC due to copyright issues, there are a forum thread about it, they can't publish Office versions newer than 97 for that reason after Office 2000 was taken down due to a DCMA winworldpc.com/product/windows-xp/final winworldpc.com/product/microsoft-office/2000

@eduardoavila646 5 лет назад

Probably it will endup there in 5 years or more. People still use it too much as a daily driver, and incredibly sporadically microsoft still updates it, such as with the spectre problem

@alextirrellRI 5 лет назад

I have some fond memories of using Windows 2000 in high school and at my first summer job. A very clean and capable OS. It has really held up well.

@zaori2785 5 лет назад

a time when Microsoft knew how to make operating systems...

@raihanislam912 5 лет назад

Windows 7 was pretty good imo

@jaywolfenstien 5 лет назад

… except right before 2000 came Windows ME.

@mopeybloke 5 лет назад

@@jaywolfenstien That's right. People always like every other version of Windows.

@acmenipponair 5 лет назад

Well, the reason why WIndows 2000 is so good is just: It wasn't made for the cheap home/oem market, but for businesses and servers, where stability was the key factor. It had to run on older hardware than ME or XP, as it was also the long awaited upgrade for NT 4. And especially in the first half of the 2000s there was a specific difference: Windows 2000 couldn't play games at that time! Why? Because only with Service Pack 2 you got the first Direct X and 3D-drivers. Only with the newest service pack (SP6) your Windows 2000 became a genuine competitor for Windows XP. And SP 6 came out, when Microsoft already was pushing Vista into the market. It was wanted by the server operators, because they didn't wanted to install Windows Server 2008 - most of them skipped that version (a variant of Vista) and went straight to Server 2012 later on, which was a sister system of Windows 7. And that's also the reason, why Windows XP worked, while Windows ME sucked: Windows XP was a Windows 2000 system with enhanced graphic and driver support. At that time we were all annoyed, that our old Windows 98 drivers mostly didn't worked in XP - and didn't understand, that this was because of the 2000 restrictions, that only allowed drivers, which used the windows dll routines and not something native, which was the reason for all the driver conflicts and crashes in Windows ME - too much hardware drivers incompatible with each other. So, yes, Windows knew, with their NT series, how to make operating systems in 1999. The DOS/95 line was at the end of it's life time, you couldn't get the system working stable anymore (Windows ME), while NT had none of the 1980s backtraps and was therefore better.

@eclecticreader961 5 лет назад

After XP it went downhill.

@exorio69 5 лет назад

The best windows to date. No bloat, simple and one of the first NT based Windows. Stability was top notch.

@computercatgaming02 5 лет назад

I used to mess around with Windows 2000 some years ago and it's one of the most stable Windows versions I've tried, running on all kinds of hardware. And it also looks a whole lot like Windows 98 which is one of my favourites so that's another plus from me ;D

@AiOinc1 5 лет назад

I've noticed that an awful lot of people in these comments don't seem to realize the theme can be set to classic in XP to make it look identical...

@computercatgaming02 5 лет назад

@@AiOinc1 the classic theme is indeed very similar but if you haven't noticed so is alot of elements still very different in XPs classic theme which then requires modifications to files such as the explorer.exe in order to add those elements and at least to my knowledge when I made a patched explorer.exe several years ago that gave windows xp the classic logo/s there was no such thing available to download anywhere.. unless you got a download link, which I'd gladly accept! :)

@noth606 5 лет назад

I just run straight up Win98SE on a separate machine, yeah it's unstable and bizarrely annoying at times but that's the charm of it. That plus DOS games :-)

@computercatgaming02 5 лет назад

noth606 I'm planning on building a ultra high end Win 98 machine to push the boundaries, still i got a Dell 2400 running Win 98 but that thing lacks AGP..

@noth606 5 лет назад

ComputerCatGaming I'm running win98SE on an Athlon XP 2500+ with 1gb ram, GeForce FX 5950 Ultra and 1 gig ram(sometimes less when I'm mucking about with it) and off an old single platter drive. It runs blazing fast as you can guess but in theory it should be doable to put together something quite a lot faster still. Graphics support is a bit hit&miss, I have several AGP cards that no driver works with on win98... but it's a fun box to play with, I run old games at 1080p pretty well on it

@justanotheryoutubechannel 5 лет назад

Wow! OpenTTD music!? Fun fact: there is a Windows 2000 version of the latest OpenTTD update.

@lemagreengreen 5 лет назад

Windows 2000 was great. It was also the NT release that really started to encourage hardware and software vendors to make sure they had proper NT support since enthusiasts adopted it pretty well on home machines. Was still some problems with some software and hardware compatibility back then but nothing like the NT4 days.

@paulb4uk 5 лет назад

2000 was great its xp without the ui look i used it for a number of years and never ever crashed.

@BudgetBuildsOfficial 5 лет назад

Definitely points for being one of the best stable OS I have ever personally used.

@MirekFe 5 лет назад

I agree. Windows 2000 was a good experience. Windows XP, looked like Kid Pix (that childish Play-Doh look). Never could take that OS seriously.

@Braxton1981 5 лет назад

Mirek Fe "Play-Doh" you say. Then you will love Windows 10 and notepad. I mean, the white plain part of notepad, is very _serious_ and such. And that precious Windows 10 user interface design, no gradients, sharp pointy simple corners..very mature. An underscore, a square and a cross, separated a mile from each other, over a dead-looking single color line = material UI Window buttons, best idea ever, the biggest UI designers artwork ever. No need of a /sarcasm marker here, I know.

@MirekFe 5 лет назад

@@Braxton1981 I don't like Windows 10 either. Left Windows many years ago for Linux. Sure, I still use it at work (since it's the standard). But just look at it! It's a mess! Flat GUI look, reminiscent of Norton Commander for DOS. Charms bar, that should've remained with Windows 8 (constant annoying reminders and ads). Updates that are forced down your throat. And don't get me started with the start menu. Windows 7, 8, and Ubuntu hybrid Frankenstein monster. _Computer name changing._ First it was, My Computer. Then it became, Computer. Now it's, *"This PC"* !!! _Fun fact:_ The recycle bin is a joke. It's supposedly new, but it's just an updated version of the original 95 edition. _I could continue talking about my pet peeves related with this OS from purgatory, but I'll end this here._

@MirekFe 5 лет назад

@@Braxton1981 I'm all about simplicity and professionalism, thus I believe, Windows 2000 looked polished, and finished. Windows 10 doesn't look professional. It looks like every technology was slapped on it, without a care in the world, how ugly it'll look.

@tin2001 5 лет назад

I stuck with 2000 well after XP came out. I liked the lower resource usage and simpler design, which all made it feel faster. But I had to switch to XP when I got a dual CPU Athlon system. 2000 had a noticeable lag when moving threads between CPUs, while XP did it smoothly. Very noticeable when playing music or DVDs.

@matts.8342 5 лет назад

Honestly that lowered spec Pentium 4 would have been pretty high end for a Windows 2000 machine.

@minelayer26 2 года назад

pentium 4 was pretty powerful for windows 2000

@darkijah-andersjehovahsn7893 2 года назад

Jup... that would be overkill really... Pentium 4 came so much later as far as I recall. Pentium 3 was like the top end in those times.

@Protoking 2 года назад

That’s what I thought too. I ran it on an 850MHz Duron and it still flew.

@darkijah-andersjehovahsn7893 2 года назад

@@Protoking Yup that would be high for this system for sure.

@TheDman216 2 месяца назад

i did it on a dell 2350 2.4ghz 1gb and it was fast for sure

@ardyandkari 5 лет назад

I installed win2k on a 486 at one point. That was a funny project, but it did work. HDD wouldn't shut up due to paging, and I had to mount a box fan on the chassis to keep it cool enough to keep running. Those were the days...

@eduardoavila646 5 лет назад

I used very much windows 2000, it was awesome, a lightweight windows xp, with a classical look.

@Anonymous-xn2xh 5 лет назад

I am writing this comment in WIN2000

@fernandoricardomagalhaes8521 5 лет назад

I am writing this in Android 4.4.2

@nobies2620 5 лет назад

Eriting on android 9.0

@WoodymC 5 лет назад

Painstakingly replied using a Lynx for DOS port

@2xsaiko 5 лет назад

I am writing this reply on Arch Linux

@wacknesium 5 лет назад

Written on hp touchpad with android 4.4.4

@hamberq 5 лет назад

Windows 2000 was a great system. I've been using it for a long time on my pentium 60MHz. Soooo stable and reliable!!!

@simonpreston 5 лет назад

The day I replaced Windows ME with Windows 2000 was a great day indeed. The whole 9x codebase should have been burned to the ground.

@tilburg8683 4 года назад

What's wrong with ME?

@andrewdonohue1853 4 года назад

@@tilburg8683 it was unstable, it was slow and just plain bag

@tilburg8683 4 года назад

@@andrewdonohue1853 oh, I used ME or 2000 and it ran pretty good, but thanks for the answer. Never heard about this since I was like 5 at the time.

@user-xg8yy7yl1d 4 года назад

98 was actually pretty stable. 9x wasn’t the most terrible it just couldn’t do what the NT kernel could however NT was too expensive and too resource demanding

@Lolvi6 4 года назад

My windows ME desktop used to crash running Heroes of Might and Magic III when I was 10

@spencerglew8162 5 лет назад

Me: *hears windows 2000* Me: *thinks boring* Hamish: *actually makes it interesting* This is the whole reason I originally subbed to you, everyone you make is engaging and entertaining

@BudgetBuildsOfficial 5 лет назад

Go like an subscribe to Spencer for a Free iPhone 5

@Toutvids 5 лет назад

Windows 2000 was my favorite for a long time. I got a free OEM copy when I bought a $40 box of PC parts off eBay back in the day. It was a burned copy still sitting in a CD ROM drive. I laughed out loud when I powered the drive up and opened the tray and saw a disk with hand writing on it, 'Windows 2000 Professional'. Still have that disk along with my copies of Windows 98 SE, Windows XP and a bunch old versions of Linux.

@fanofCOH 5 лет назад

you should frame them, thatd be really neat

@haramaschabrasir8662 5 лет назад

Love that subtle showing of the serial number.

@Hessi 2 года назад

The few games that ran on NT 4.0 at the time did so much faster than on Win 9x. When 2k came out, it was the (almost) perfect blend of both worlds. I was working for an IT consulting company at the time and even the pre-release versions were a revelation for Windows users. When SP-1 came out and weighed 100 MB, we all thought it was absurd and were glad of our dedicated T1 line. Today, 100 MB is a small patch.

@ec1021501 5 лет назад

I really like the GN style timeline you put on the left side. It really helps on long videos. Love the effort you put into your videos.

@hemmed32 5 лет назад

-GN

@MP-tz2yn 5 лет назад

Wdym by gn

@ec1021501 5 лет назад

@@MP-tz2yn There is a tech channel called Gamers Nexus, who I first saw that style of time line. They do in depth analysis of PC tech and imo the best hw (especially on pc case) review on RU-vid if scientific methodology is what you embrace.

@yankumarrah 5 лет назад

What an amazing OS win2k was, had that running on a late 90s vintage Toshiba satellite I used back in 2005 with only 64MB of ram installed. Light weight, stable, and a clean interface. Especially after having then recently leaving the windows 9x era for good; Good times !

@thereallantesh 5 лет назад

I really enjoyed this video. I actually never used Win 2000. I went from 98 SE right to XP back in the day. So I appreciate the look in to this OS.

@K9arcade Год назад

Been a few years since I last saw this video so feels good to watch it again. I'm an XP fan but I have the opportunity to grab Windows 2000 from someone so I liked the refresher

@CaveyMoth 5 лет назад

Holy crap, that stock video editing footage that you show off in this video is SO MID 2000'S!

@thiagopereira48 5 лет назад

Installing Windows 2000 on a SSD? What's this? Druaga1?

@SilverSpoon_ 5 лет назад

I keep the idea and jump onto eBay, check if they got any PATA-133 SSD for my ThinkPad 600X...

@SilverSpoon_ 5 лет назад

@WinIn Sight wrong method, you need to setup your bios to set things on legacy mode (choose ATA over AHCI then install the AHCI drivers) and need to get it installed on at least one of your SSD/HDD's partition.

@mangenkyo 5 лет назад

... and playing DOOM on it

@ArsenioGut 5 лет назад

ʜᴇʏ sᴍᴏᴋᴇʀs

@jor_r8769 4 года назад

Great video. I loved Windows 2000. It was nice to work on back in the day. We loved it cause it was like XP but without the fisher price theme.

@darkijah-andersjehovahsn7893 2 года назад

without popup nonsense, graphical nonsense and other bullshit things.

@ijslandernl 5 лет назад

Windows 2000 has always been my favourite operating system from Microsoft and it's the operating system I've used the longest. Right after installing it for the first time I immediately fell in love with it and kept on using it while other people were already running Windows XP for many years. To me Windows XP has always been Windows 2000 with a lot of additional garbage to make it more attractive to home users. There was this time when Microsoft was making operating systems for home users and operating systems for corporate use. The last one of these were Windows 2000 for corporate use with the Windows ME counterpart for home users. Starting with Windows XP they never released any more Windows versions for corporate users and to me the Windows versions for home users are too bloated. Windows 2000 was such a clean operating system and then released Windows XP with this ugly Luna theme (which I consider the ugliest theme ever to be used in an operating system and I don't even understand how anyone can stand it and people don't just use the Windows Classic theme), the stupid dog that shows up when looking for files, the new Start-menu, the useless cleaning up of unused items on the Desktop, the annoying hiding of unused icons in the System Tray, the annoying grouping of items in the Task Bar, the annoying categories in Control Panel, the annoying layouts used in the Explorer depending on what files are in the folder you're viewing. The list just goes on and on and on. I just hated every single new feature of Windows XP. Of course, I could've installed Windows XP and disable all of the new features and make it look and act exactly like Windows 2000, but why would I if I could just keep on running Windows 2000? So, that's what I did. Everything always worked absolutely great. Later there were some games that checked what operating system you were running and refused to install on anything older than Windows XP (like Age of Empires III), but that was easily solved by just copying all of the files from the CD to the hard disk manually and then creating a shortcut on the Desktop to the .exe manually to run the game. Nowadays Windows is so bloated, I can't understand how people are able to use it. I also don't want to know what efforts companies have to go through to set-up a PC with Windows for office use. Why doesn't Microsoft just create a corporate version of Windows with just the barebones needed for use in an office and everything else stripped out and then have Microsoft Office pre-installed, instead of having things like Xbox, Movies & TV, Solitaire Collection, Bing Sports, Food & Drink, Health & Fitness, Travel, Music, et cetera? These kind of apps are completely useless in a corporate environment and system administrators have to spend a lot of time uninstalling or disabling these kind of things and then installing Microsoft Office. Disabling access to the Command Prompt and PowerShell is another thing. Just make an operating system that's ready to use in an office set-up or in a school and then have a separate operating system for home users with all of the nonsense people want to use at home. To me Windows 2000 was the last clean operating system that could just be implemented in an office or school without any (or at least not too much) tinkering. To me it's still the best operating system Microsoft has ever created and together with Age of Empires II (although it's a different subsidiary (or whatever to call it in English) of Microsoft) one of the best products they've ever released.

@dhl-96 Год назад

Windows 2000 is the last version of Windows that was clean, as you said. Although I think that corporate version you were taking about is present in the Enterprise LTSC releases. No nagging feature updates, and (most) of the bloat removed. However if we are talking "EVERYTHING GONE" then newer Server releases. I know some places like hospitals (at least here in NZ) use Server 2016 or 19 instead of Windows 10 for office use.

@Mattia_22 10 месяцев назад

I 100% agree with you, Windows XP was the start of the bloated era, also if you think how hardware was limited back then it was a waste of resources to have more than what you actually need on a OS. Unfortunately they wanted to keep up with Apple and get rid of the classic grey UI, so they created that horrendous Luna theme. The classic theme remains the best to me this day, it’s a shame they removed it completely since windows 10. Now you can only make high contrast themes and honestly the final result sucks. I use Windows 10 because there is no realistic alternative to it if you want to run modern software and games. I wish so bad one day they reimplement the classic W2K UI in its entirety.

@TheGamingOnion 5 лет назад

I must say, I've really enjoyed this video, for years now I've been recommending lightweight Linux for low end PCs, so they can still get modern software support and a modern operating system for free, I never knew Windows 2000 was a real alternative, I still think lightweight linux makes more sense because of security, and even for gaming as wine and Steamplay can make many old windows games run, but I'm really glad there's a real free alternative to that and overall it was a really interesting video. I'd love to see you testing out very lightweight linux and trying to make older windows games run on it.

@NuntiusLegis 5 лет назад

Abandonware is not free software. And I don't even believe it is abandonware.

@bluebandit5586 5 лет назад

Another masterpiece as always. This man has risen through the ranks up there next to green ham gaming as one of the best tech channels on RU-vid

@matthewcalifana488 5 лет назад

Windows pro 2000 was my all time favorite ! seemed nartural , nice wallpaper & everything worked Super Easy !

@drzeldaglitch 4 года назад

i still have a original Windows 2000 Professional Installation CD and Product Key

@BigNerdLandon 4 года назад

@Drakilicious he is just stating that he cares about the OS and kept it around

@joeyhillers9460 5 лет назад

Man, I still have my install disk. I remember buying this when it was released and installing it on my HP. Used it for over 8 years until 7 came out

@BudgetBuildsOfficial 5 лет назад

Yo dude

@joeyhillers9460 5 лет назад

@@BudgetBuildsOfficial Got an idea for a video. PC gaming on an intel Chromebook? I mean, you see them all over the place and I've had some luck with games like Deer Hunter 2, Wizard101(Just testing), and sim tower using an app called crossover. Steam isn't supported unfortunately, but all you need is an executive file.

@raresmacovei8382 5 лет назад

You chose to use 2000 over XP and later Vista, until W7? You mad lad.

@joeyhillers9460 5 лет назад

@@raresmacovei8382 It wasn't that bad. It worked quite well for my needs. Could've upgraded to XP, but that was downtime. In a business, time is money.

@andrewanglais202 5 лет назад

@@joeyhillers9460 Impressive :)

@TrueLifeRetelling 5 лет назад

Windows 2000 was insanely good, thank god

@TrueLifeRetelling 5 лет назад

@Windows 2000 Thank you Windows 2000

@abandoned7501 5 лет назад

@@TrueLifeRetelling What about arch?

@CrisWhetstone 5 лет назад

Win200 and Windows for WorkGroups were always my favorite Windows versions. I often wish we could go back.

@hoppstech 5 лет назад

You know I am a bit of a Windows 2000 connoisseur myself 😎💯😱💦

@TheRealFobican 5 лет назад

Wasn´t Windows 2000 basically a precursor to XP?

@KayOScode 5 лет назад

@@TheRealFobican no, that's windows me

@andersforsgren3806 5 лет назад

@HoppsTech: Same, I stayed longer on Win2000 than ...anyone locally. The stability, just kept working - as less and less stuf and software worked I had to cave in. Now on Win10, and cant even get it to access with my cellphone. FFS - Microsoft. So yeah: Once upon a time there were a software corp that made a working OS. :P~

@Hebrew42Day 5 лет назад

@@KayOScode no, ME was a mess trying to clobber NT kernel code into the dos based structure of the 95 kernel. 2000 was supposed to be XP but they didn't feel it was consumer ready, so it became a corporate option not for consumers. When that happened they stuffed things into ME that shouldn't have been put in there. Check out the winver. 2000 is the predecessor to XP, ME is the successor to 98 SE

@Hebrew42Day 5 лет назад

@@andersforsgren3806 I had windows 2000 and dual booted Linux (Mandrake 7) for a bit. Then upgraded to XP and ran that for years, until windows Vista came out. When windows Vista released a friend was having issues with their computer as it was hosed with virii. I formatted the drive and donated my XP license to them, fully switching to Linux. I ran Linux from 2007 to 2012. In 2012 I needed windows for school, so tried windows 8. It was okay and when I could, I updated it to 10. I still dual booted and preferred Linux. In 2017 of December the windows 10 update killed my laptop. It literally fried the wifi Bluetooth hardware. I also kept getting green screens. It was then I switched to Linux full time again.

@nekomasteryoutube3232 5 лет назад

Funny you mention OpenTTD as that works very well on a wide range of devices. I even played 1.2.0 back in high school on a 100 Mhz Pentium laptop I found which only had 16MB of ram and it ran smoothly at 640x480 resolution. I still play the game these days and I even figured out how to make my own suit of North American styled GRF's/MODs (like the NARS Add-on Set 2cc, NA Track Set, North American Industy set and I'm currently working on the North American road vehicle set)

@katiserie 5 лет назад

Budget builds best OS Windows XP Windows 7 Windows 2000

@cesarjavierbarbosa8318 4 года назад

100% agree. I'm just like you. I like those 3 OS.

@nikolauswilliams3124 4 года назад

Facts. Best OSs ever

@RasVoja 4 года назад

Best of worse :) AmigaOS at its time, Linux a bit later :)

@WildDiamond07 4 года назад

Mac OS is also good

@ashii_ii 3 года назад

@@WildDiamond07 Not really when it comes to Compatibility to some PCs, unless you follow some Hackintosh guide.

@Loddestuen 5 лет назад

My favorite Windows of all times. No-nonsens operating system.. :-)

@CaveyMoth 5 лет назад

Are you okay, Budget-Builds Official? There's a nasty bug going around. Windows 10 makes everyone cough.

@southernstalliongaming7544 5 лет назад

Cavey Möth Windows 10 is the best

@mineing_deadplaysminecraft3783 5 лет назад

elite falcon gaming nice joke

@daftbence 5 лет назад

@@southernstalliongaming7544 yeah it is. I guess I got to the wrong part of RU-vid, where it's cool to hate 10. Yuck, weird people here...

@davidroopnarine7089 5 лет назад

@@southernstalliongaming7544 windows 7 is better imo

@ayxii 5 лет назад

agreed, windows 7 is probably like the 1 - 3 best operating system, especially for gaming. it doesn't force you to update like windows 10

@thomaskelly2108 5 лет назад

openttd music damn it's taken over

@AllMyHobbies 5 лет назад

i have a server at work in a production environment that still runs windows 2000 server. never crashes and runs great. i think it was last rebooted 4 years ago. it was a amazing os and still is.

@nuiseveningstar5955 5 лет назад

The amount of hard work in this video is just mind blowing!..........awesome video mate better than some so called "Big RU-vidrs". Wish you the bestest of luck for the futur and hit the million subs milestone asap........✌ peace!

@melontek 5 лет назад

Yet another top notch video from The Big Wheel himself

@BudgetBuildsOfficial 5 лет назад

The Big Wheel is pleased by your GT730 video

@TheFableHistorian 5 лет назад

@@BudgetBuildsOfficial HE IS THE WHEEL

@ancientalien815 5 лет назад

My childhood OS. Many hours of half life played on that OS.

@lopwidth7343 5 лет назад

Ut2003, max payne, gta 2, gta 3, nfs3se, nfs hot pursuit, nfs porsche unleashed, hl, cs1.5, sven coop, tribes 2, bf1942, mafia, far cry, msn messenger with a-patch, kazaa lite, mirc quakenet.org. nero burning mp3 to discman, All seeing eye, hlsw, boomtown.net client, ADSEE maybe? Img software

@eightmegsandconstantlyswap8862 5 лет назад

You are a man of taste.

@Boemel 5 лет назад

@@lopwidth7343 best days of my life

@Simonsvids 5 лет назад

Childhood? Does your mother know you are up this late?

@eightmegsandconstantlyswap8862 5 лет назад

@@Simonsvids Windows 2000 predates most of the podcast guests grandpa.

@ateltoni 5 лет назад

That OpenTTD Music in the Background...just perfect.

@raydeen2k 5 лет назад

Win2K is actually pretty good, provided you have the extended kernel and unofficial service pack installed. If you don't, expect tons of BSOD's. If you do, it's quite a nice little bit of kit. I have it on an old Dell Latitude CPi. It found all the hardware on the laptop right off the bat. The only thing I had to track down was a driver for a Netgear PCMCIA 802.11g card. It runs very current versions of Python, Lazarus, Firefox and a few other essential things. It isn't fast, but it's completely usable.

@manuelink64 5 лет назад

Great video! Many fond memories using Win2K on my AMD K6-2 500MHz with 256Mb for 4 years,I jumped from win98 to winxp, then I made a rollback to win2k (because my specs system was low) rock solid OS, especially for work, I prefer win98 for gaming, the only problem was the lack of drivers in many "new" hardware, then I got a Pentium III 1GHz with 512MB of ram, then I tried winxp and I never went back.

@superapple4ever 5 лет назад

When I was in middle school and like 2009, 2010 I had a Toshiba satellite from that time period that I bought at a garage sale for like 20 or $30. It had windows 2000 on it and at that time that handled everything just as well as modern operating systems. I had a good experience with that. Very good OS, too bad windows 10 isn’t as good. Looking back I might’ve even prefer that over XP.

@MiniRockerz4ever 5 лет назад

Nice catch... I still got Toshiba satellite laptop today... bought in 2009, 3GB RAM, no HDMI port eh moved from Vista back to XP to WIN7 at this point... I have ordered Raspberry pi 3 B+ that is going to be more powerfull xD

@daftbence 5 лет назад

Thank god win 10 is actually just as good if not better

@BudgetBuildsOfficial 5 лет назад

@@daftbence: I mean compared to something like Windows 7 it's worse in everyway that isn't 3 things: * Multi GPU Support * DirectX12 * General UI Improvements Other than that an OS like Windows 7 is much better overall, and works much more smoothly. If you'd like to stop commenting about how Windows 10 is the best thing since sliced bread it'd be greatly appreciated.

@johnrudge5459 5 лет назад

I'm haveing problems with windows 7 update to 10 it works fine

@JamDoggie 5 лет назад

@@BudgetBuildsOfficial honestly i use windows 10 and used to use windows 7. I much prefer the undistracting "metro ui"(?) in windows 10 as opposed to the rather dated looking ui (imo) windows 7 had. Not to mention i have had much more compatibility with pretty much everything i have used with windows 10 than with windows 7. Not saying windows 10 is 100% perfect of course(mostly the fact that there are so many old programs like regedit that have barely been updated since windows 2000, but of course this applies to all windows editions), but honestly i see no advantage to using win 7 over 10 in 2018.

@pauldavis5665 4 года назад

Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows 7 are Microsoft's best operating systems ever made.

@daisymae3717 4 года назад

I never experienced windows 2000 but I absolutely loved xp, it was so simple to use and at that golden age where there was almost no DRM for games. I currently have windows 7 which is easy to use and just works, Im glad I didn't update when Microsoft offerd (my husband did and regrets it)

@codelockd0wn 5 лет назад

This is an amazing vid, as a note, if you want more than 3GB RAM, just use one of the server editions. supporting up to 64GB IIRC.

@darkijah-andersjehovahsn7893 2 года назад

How much junk do you get with one of those versions?

@codelockd0wn 2 года назад

@@darkijah-andersjehovahsn7893 Early versions of Windows didn't really come with any junk (minus some one-off special editions?)

@vp-retro 5 лет назад

I loved Win2000, was one of my favorite OS's.

@ScrapTechTips 5 лет назад

See if you can run a VM that will run windows 10

@Good_Luck_8619 5 лет назад

Scrap Tech Tips why not just install directly ! ?

@aretard7995 5 лет назад

@@Good_Luck_8619 cuz it's trash.

@danw1955 5 лет назад

Being an IT guy for a local school up until 2007, I used Win2000 regularly, and it was generally pretty predictable. The server version always worked well, and the advances in more modern networking and actual working and configurable domain control made it perfect for business/school related installations. I still have copies of everything from Win2K Professional all the way through Enterprise Server (which would handle up to 32 gb. of RAM). Stability was the main feature and that stability was because you could only install certain programs and drivers by default, so as not to disrupt the integrity of the OS. You could bypass this with various results, so it was always a good idea to test any new software on a sand-boxed machine to make sure it was stable before putting it on the domain. (Ran into a lot of this with education-based software that was usually created in early versions of VB6 and ActiveX). Overall, I sort of miss the simplicity and speed of it when it was working properly.. and at the time it WAS pretty fast, even on a machine with a single core P-IV and 512mb. of RAM.😉 The best way to gain speed on a Win2K machine was to setup multiple U-320 SCSI drives in a RAiD 0 array, as the read speeds were increased exponentially. I would think the system would be hard on SSD's just by design. Great video! I may have to dig out one of my older IBM rack-mount servers and play with it again at some point.😁👍

@numbersstation2 5 лет назад

Alright gramps

@Zakkious Год назад

Man, i wish Microsoft'd make good, unbloated, stable operating systems like this again

@eclecticreader961 5 лет назад

"Windows 2000, is it good in 2019." Not only is it good, it's less expensive. I recently used Word 2000 to type all of my B.S. Degree dissertations. I also use Windows 95 from time to time. The documents, whether Windows 2000 or Windows 95, look modern and similar when attached in an email or printed out.

@televisionandcheese 5 лет назад

My first OS :) Wow a Pentium 4 and 2GB ram I used Windows 2000 on a Pentium II 400 with 64mb of memory, it was still very good experience!

@dynad00d15 5 лет назад

Used to run it on a brand new DELL P3 800. Loved that laptop

@isgoed81 5 лет назад

i loved this os back in the day! it was a beast, rock solid stability and ran games

@benwyatt7619 3 года назад

I know right it was so good. I used it from 2001-2008, very solid and great.

@ChadeGB 5 лет назад

Used Win2k for many years back in the day, arguably the most stable, reliable and slimlined OS microsoft have ever made, loved it for it's simplicity, functionality and, as you said, rock solid reliability.

@RonZhang 5 лет назад

0:05 Windows XP - Am I a joke to you?

@artiomcatomass 5 лет назад

They dimped it

@sosopwsi829Jjw9 4 года назад

@@artiomcatomass So they didn't dimp 2000?

@Shovlaxnet 5 лет назад

The tutorial you showed is actually a semi-reupload from Terabyte Coyote who took it down for some unknown reason.

@rozpierdalacz1461 5 лет назад

I would call Windows 2000 the mix of Windows XP (because it has NT) and Windows 98 (asthethics). Wait, do I see the old Steam icon there? Oh man.

@zeruty 5 лет назад

Win2k is still my favorite version of windows.

@UzY3L 5 лет назад

I miss Windows 2000 so much. Especially the side-bad that lets you preview photos and videos, that shit is awesome!

@wordart_guian 4 года назад

I'm pretty sure it still existe in w10

@prushimush 5 лет назад

Windows 2000 is not only good, it is the last great iteration of Windows. XP was quite good for its time, but its underpinnings are all Windows 2000, and it lacked the lean purpose-built punch of Windows 2000. I ran it from 00-06 until DirectX was abandoned on Windows 2000. I was appalled by Vista; I am now forced onto Windows 10 when not using Debian or Gentoo. Any Linux flavor is preferable to Windows. 10 is bloated to high hell but usable.

@yournemesis192 5 лет назад

I remember using Windows 98 and 2000 when I was in elementary school We used 19" crts and modem internet back then

@goldanimal3931 4 года назад

How old are you?

@andrewdonohue1853 4 года назад

@@goldanimal3931 I graduated high school in 1999. they were still using DOS based applications in the CAD classes I was taking.

@Noah_1801 4 года назад

@@andrewdonohue1853 I was born just a year after you graduated and even I still remember using Windows 2000 in school and Windows 95 :D

@enschedegabber87 5 лет назад

great that Transport Tycoon Deluxe soundtrack at the background!

@-na-nomad6247 5 лет назад

I absolutely love that OpenTTD music !

@karioken 5 лет назад

I was using Windows 2000 for a very long time and avoided Windows XP. Windows 2000 with SP4 was a very stable OS. Simple and clean.

@definitely_notme4112 4 года назад

Whats wrong with XP?

@LtSich 5 лет назад

Win2k, the best OS from Microsoft.... I would like to something like that today... Very stable, light... It's exactly what an OS should be... I use XFCE on Linux now :)

@Raletia 5 лет назад

Maybe if ReactOS can ever get off the ground. It aims to be to Windows, what Linux is to Unix. Or at least that's my understanding.

@nalinux 4 года назад

I used it and loved it. Quite stable OS. But it also supported dual cpu, which was an improvement if you had a BP6 or similar mainboard :) Worked well with 2 Celeron 433 running @490 and a Voodoo3.

@johneygd 5 лет назад

Long live windows 2000 over windows 10, i alway’s used to hate windows 10 untill there was a patch to make windows 10 more like windows 7!!!

@DannyWilliamH 5 лет назад

Windows 2000 was the best Windows OS until 7, IMO.

@loganiushere 3 года назад

I'd argue 7>XP>2000>>>Me

@maruf7956 3 года назад

@@loganiushere XP>7>10

@PineappleForFun 5 лет назад

2K supported way more then 4 gigs of RAM on 32 bit chips that supported PAE, which was most. Microsoft turned that into a paid for extra feature starting with XP SP2. Earlier versions would support it out of the box. OS X and Linux support PAE as well.

@690_5 5 лет назад

Oh hell yeah! As soon as I heard the OpenTTD music I was happy.

@cesarjavierbarbosa8318 4 года назад

I like Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows 7. I sometimes like Windows 98 SE. The one reason Windows 2000 is better than Windows XP and 7 is due to activation.

@cjhawk67 5 лет назад

There is a custom GTX 980 TI driver for windows 2000 a friend of mine runs a 970 and a i7 with Windows 2000 fully updated with extended kernal and a cpu thread registry patch so all 8 threads can be used as his daily driver with the xp patch version of basilisk so he can use voice chat in discord.

@lonttugamer2939 5 лет назад

Wow thats nice. As much as i like hassling with hardware i would never have the patience to set all that up.

@GugureSux 5 лет назад

Should've played the STALKER trilogy instead of FC2. The built-in DX8 support should allow even old HW like this to run them, even if the latest one is from 2010. Plus, they're the far superior games.

@dominikobora5385 5 лет назад

join freedom stalker!

@plenkman 5 лет назад

@@dominikobora5385 Duty**

@solarstrike33 5 лет назад

@Teemuslayer Call of Pripyat is actually from 2009, not 2010.

@dominikobora5385 5 лет назад

@@plenkman ecologists***

@GugureSux 5 лет назад

@SolarstrikeVG; February 2010 for us non-Slavs. Also, Freedom > Dooty. However, true Loners > all.

@DiamondTurtleGamer 5 лет назад

Love that OpenTTD music mate.

@BlackEpyon 5 лет назад

Way back then, I was working off a AMD-K6 at 350MHz, which ran Win2k just fine. I skipped over Windows ME for my home machine, and just went to 2k. It ran everything just fine, including all but the oldest of my games.

@Ocleg 5 лет назад

Windows 2000 is underrated.

@eclecticreader961 5 лет назад

Windows 2000 is underrated. Windows 95 is especially underrated.

@LittleHomieLightningtech 5 лет назад

Early from discord lol Btw make a vid on the r9 290x or r9 fury.

@TheRetroNobody 5 лет назад

I think Windows 2000 remains my favorite version of Windows. I'm inspired to do a build.

@Ricelord4 Год назад

Back in 2001, I dual booted Windows 2000 and ME on my HP Pavilion 9870 with an Intel Pentium 4 Willamette 1.3 GHz CPU, 256 MB RAMBUS RAM, 60 GB HDD, and NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Pro 32 MB graphics card. It served as my computer for years until I was able to build my first one on my own. 2000 was for general stability and school use, while ME was for gaming. Then I upgraded to XP and left ME behind entirely. I miss Windows 2000 sometimes. That was a particular era in computing for me.