Reformatting

I'm reformatting my computer tonight, boys. Installing Windows 2000. I hope it's better than this ME ****. Wish me luck! And if you never see me on here again, you'll know what happened!

Hope I remembered to back up everything I needed....

Win2k is certainly much better than WinME. I am looking at XP too. Supposedly, the gaming support is much better, as is support for usb/firewire and older hardware.

It's just too bad that Adobe, Macromedia or any other design software companies have taken the initiative to build packages for Linux. It's a really stable platform to develop off of and I am sure they would find a welcome market for those of us who like our OS's much more powerful.

good luck deker.... My wish for you is minimal headaches


and you are right Axiom...."XP" looks VERY promising....I have a machine running the beta now...

I even....dare I say?....... "like it!"

I'll second the win2k bandwagon. Especially if you are tyring to use all of your memory. It rocks Good luck with the reformat...

Hooray! Everything went off pretty well. Except that I couldn't figure out how to format my freakin' drive. WinME apparently doesn't think I am smart enough to know when I should format my hard drive, so it completely disables it! Luckily I found the auto reformat thing when installing win2k.

All I've done so far is install my video drivers and set up my 'net connection, but so far it seems great! I really like the fadey menus and drop shadow on the mouse cursor... (I know, I'm pretty easy to please)

From my 1 hour experience, I recommend everyone buy win2k. It was really easy to install by the way, even a lot easier than ME.

Pank, as for using all of your memory I'm still running Windows 98, AMD K6-2 400, 256 megs of ram, TNT2 Vid Card. And I can get 225 megs of ram free on a fresh reboot with about 10 things running in the Background (from startup) and nothing actually running. And I can hold onto that for about 10-12 hours of solid usage. (lets not discuss my 2 1/2 days uptime experience... That wasn't so good). Anyway, my point (and I think I have one), is there's a lot to say for a little bit of tweaking.

I'm not bashing Windows 2k, or praising 98 (2k is clearly better), but everything can be tweaked...

I love my Win2K. I love not having to restart 3 times per day because I open and close Photoshop 5 times per hour to free up RAM for something else.