Author: Pete Galati
Date: 19:11:55 04/06/01
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On April 06, 2001 at 19:13:37, Scott Gasch wrote: >On April 06, 2001 at 00:50:46, Benny Ng wrote: > >>On April 05, 2001 at 16:58:43, Pete Galati wrote: >> >>>On April 05, 2001 at 16:14:10, Scott Gasch wrote: >>> >>>>On April 05, 2001 at 05:59:39, Jason Williamson wrote: >>>>> >>>>>As I do, but in general, most home users have no need for Win2k. >>>>> >>>> >>>>That's a strange statement. I'd argue that anyone who doesn't like their >>>>computer crashing has a need for win2k (or something else besides 9x/ME). You >>>>know the next version of Windows for home users will be based on the NT kernel >>>>(like Win2k). So apparently Microsoft has finally concluded that home users >>>>need the stability and security of a serious operating system... >>> >>>My experience with Windows ME is that I've had one thing or another crash about >>>everyday, it's helped to go into msconfig and remove a few things from startup >>>(be very carefull!) but the thing still goes and bites me more often than I can >>>stand. >>> >>>I've been considering upgrading it to 2000 for a while, but because of the cost >>>I've avoided the thing so far (for me it's cheaper to crash). >>> >>>Does Windows 2000 have the ability to start into Dos without a boot floppy? >>> >>>Pete >> >>No! I'm using Win2k right now, and I'm very happy with it's performance. But no, >>you cannot start into Dos without a boot floppy. And if you format your harddisk >>using NTFS (not FAT/FAT32 like Win9x), you must use a "special" boot floopy to >>start into Dos. >> > > >As Benny says, you can't "boot into DOS" as easily as you can with win9x. Why >do you need to boot into a pathetic program loader that calls itself an >operating system and should have died 15 years ago anyway? Believe it or not, some of us like Dos (really), but I don't however have any respect for this Windows ME that's loaded on this computer. There's a lot to be said for multitasking, but this thing is like having a medicine ball for an operating system. But I can work around not being able to boot into dos through a boot manager (long as my floppy drive holds out), I'm more interested in moving away from ME which probably should have been labaled Windows POS, but I hear good things about 2000. Pete
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