Win2000 XP pro vs XP ?

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I was just wondering why you run XP over Win2000.
I'm building a new computer and was going to use Win2000 cause it was supposed to use less sytem resources
and takes less ram at boot up.
Thanks
TaranScorp

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[lordsmurf]

Adobe CS3 is the biggest one. Lots of other software requires XP SP1, SP2 and .NET frameworks.

Win2000 is not more stable, that's such a myth. If anything, it's less stable. The "2000 better than XP" was true before SP1. But SP1 is 7 years old or so, now.

Heck, I've had to use Vista on two systems, more requirements of software. I imagine Windows 7 will make it to at least one of my systems, eventually. I only run XP SP1, SP2 and Vista SP1, right now.

If I need an older OS, I'll run it in a virtual machine (VirtualPC, VMWare, VirtualBox, DOSBox), but those are rare situations.

I have anywhere from 1GB to 6GM RAM in my systems, and RAM and start-up time really is not a concern. The work is what I worry about, and Windows XP (or even Mac OS X) is the right tool at this moment -- not Windows 2000, which is not even updated or supported by Microsoft anymore.

I would be surprised if you could get Windows 2000 to even acknowledge all the hardware found in truly "new" computers.