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I've just upgraded (if that's what you can call it) to Windows 2000.
What a bunch of poo.
There's NO drivers for my souncard at all, so I have to bloody well buy another one.
AND the my MICROSOFT mouse doesn't bloody work either! It's just a mouse with the wheel button thing on. So I downloaded the latest Win2K intellipoint drivers, installed them and sod all has happened.
It detects the wheel for scrolling documents, but NOWHERE does it let me use the wheel button as a double click.
Anyone got any ideas?
I think I may have to go back to Win 98 if anything else of mine doesn't work...
What a bunch of poo.
There's NO drivers for my souncard at all, so I have to bloody well buy another one.
AND the my MICROSOFT mouse doesn't bloody work either! It's just a mouse with the wheel button thing on. So I downloaded the latest Win2K intellipoint drivers, installed them and sod all has happened.
It detects the wheel for scrolling documents, but NOWHERE does it let me use the wheel button as a double click.
Anyone got any ideas?
I think I may have to go back to Win 98 if anything else of mine doesn't work...
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Actually I think they were trying to copy Mario 64
I havn't used XP but it sounds like they're trying to copy the OS X?
Fogmaster wrote:
> I would have though XP was better as it's built on a newer backbone.
> 2K is made on the NT system, but it looks and works damn fine, I'd be
> happy with either, soon...very soon...
Yea but isn't XP based on 2000? Loosely anyway. Even though it is, using XP with its Nintendo-graphics style interface is not my cup of tea. I don't like the point 30 fonts and the three inch buttons as my eye sight is perfect, and the colours are enough to give you a headache.
It looks WAY too kiddy. Windows 2000 for me is the best between modern and reliable software and its aimed at people over 5.
> I would have though XP was better as it's built on a newer backbone.
> 2K is made on the NT system, but it looks and works damn fine, I'd be
> happy with either, soon...very soon...
Yea but isn't XP based on 2000? Loosely anyway. Even though it is, using XP with its Nintendo-graphics style interface is not my cup of tea. I don't like the point 30 fonts and the three inch buttons as my eye sight is perfect, and the colours are enough to give you a headache.
It looks WAY too kiddy. Windows 2000 for me is the best between modern and reliable software and its aimed at people over 5.
VenomByte wrote:
> Win98 is the way forward. Plays all your old games, and all the new
> ones. No serious bugs, just a huge amount of non-critical ones. No
> hassle, top stuff.
No serious bugs? Are you joking? I've lost count of how many vulnerabilities let dodgy characters upload/download any file of their choice to/from your computer. MS releases on average 10,000 patches a year for their products - most of those for Win 98.
I've just upgraded from 98 SE to 2000. It's the best decision I ever made. No more blue screens, no more crashes and my OpenGL graphics FLY by at lightspeed. Windows 2000 didn't have the drivers for the multimedia stuff I have on my keyboard, so without any fuss I went to the manufacturer website and downloaded the drivers myself. My keyboard is now running just as it did under Win 98.
Another problem I had was with ASPI drivers for my CD Rom. I found some 'tweaked' ones for Windows 2000 and my CD Rom now operates exactly as it did.
Everything is SO much more stable, I'm not afraid of losing my work half way through and it even manages my 512Mb of RAM more efficiently and intelligently.
Before slagging off the OS because it doesn't have your drivers, why not just go to the manufacturer's website and get them? It's not that difficult, is it?
> Win98 is the way forward. Plays all your old games, and all the new
> ones. No serious bugs, just a huge amount of non-critical ones. No
> hassle, top stuff.
No serious bugs? Are you joking? I've lost count of how many vulnerabilities let dodgy characters upload/download any file of their choice to/from your computer. MS releases on average 10,000 patches a year for their products - most of those for Win 98.
I've just upgraded from 98 SE to 2000. It's the best decision I ever made. No more blue screens, no more crashes and my OpenGL graphics FLY by at lightspeed. Windows 2000 didn't have the drivers for the multimedia stuff I have on my keyboard, so without any fuss I went to the manufacturer website and downloaded the drivers myself. My keyboard is now running just as it did under Win 98.
Another problem I had was with ASPI drivers for my CD Rom. I found some 'tweaked' ones for Windows 2000 and my CD Rom now operates exactly as it did.
Everything is SO much more stable, I'm not afraid of losing my work half way through and it even manages my 512Mb of RAM more efficiently and intelligently.
Before slagging off the OS because it doesn't have your drivers, why not just go to the manufacturer's website and get them? It's not that difficult, is it?
I would have though XP was better as it's built on a newer backbone. 2K is made on the NT system, but it looks and works damn fine, I'd be happy with either, soon...very soon...
I was gonna get it but now it's put me off emmmm.....??
Windows 2000 or Windows XP ... which is better???
I've never tried a paralel zip drive but my internal works a treat, especially when I use NTFS to have a very secure backup. I know I may be biased (I'm a MCP in 2000) but I find it great and it's so nice to live with a computer that dosent crash.
I remember my old boss at SR used to use 98. He manajed to kick his PC to death, literaly. After it finally died I made him put 2k on his new machine and it never got kicked once!
I remember my old boss at SR used to use 98. He manajed to kick his PC to death, literaly. After it finally died I made him put 2k on his new machine and it never got kicked once!
I love 2k...got it installed on all my boxen now, even the lappy, very stable and never had compatibility issues with games/hardware. The few that complained initally could be fixed with a patch, or using some hacked drivers from elsewhere. Very rare for there to be no solution, the only thing I haven't got working yet is my ancient parallel zip 100 drive, but I'm sure that'll be fine too given some time.
Windows 2k is great. I know what you mean about drivers, my graphics card didn't have open GL drivers till recently but Diamond finaly released them so I can now run Counter Strike From 2k. I use it because it's stable and secure.
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