Windows: Vista Home Premium or 2000 Pro

TheKingOfHearts · Post by **TheKingOfHearts** » 28 Aug 2007, 12:17

my XP wont boot anymore (gee i wonder why)

and i need a new windows for photoshop and some other apps

so im thinking Vista...its new...my mom wants to see it (hey my mom is 1337 believe it or not)

but i dont trust Vista (im not sure the activator makes it genuine so i can update it and such)

so im thinking with going with the ol'fashion 2k Pro
you barely find ISOs of those anymore but i have a disk with it
its easy to activate you need a serial thats all and i think mine is a
real copy from a real Windows 2000 disk

so which one should i choose and why?

shamir · Post by **shamir** » 28 Aug 2007, 12:23

I think, you should choose 2000 pro, its better then vista, vista sucks a lot.....

TheKingOfHearts · Post by **TheKingOfHearts** » 28 Aug 2007, 12:42

ok and why?

because posting that you should explain why it sucks

Post by **alien100** » 28 Aug 2007, 12:48

go for vista, activation is easy updates are too if u do it right *cough
vista ultimate is the best one but needs more ram

TheKingOfHearts · Post by **TheKingOfHearts** » 28 Aug 2007, 19:32

im thinking of getting Home Premium because i found a reliable source that is virus free and i trust

also my mom can get me Vista free i believe
and it would be a real genuine disk with that little picture of MS people

i have a XP Pro genuine but someone lost the product key...i wonder who
why does my mom get awesometastic freebies like that

one thing im concerned about is
that i dont want to delete all my files on the drive
i need just the MS Desktop and all registry and Program Files
cleaned up everything else is just garbage i use

so thats one thing i dont know how to do if its possible

Post by **Stavros** » 29 Aug 2007, 11:11

There's one major reason I don't like Vista: If you install Vista, you will not be able to format with an XP disc.

I say go Win 2000. I would go with it because (I've heard) it uses even less system resources than XP and (coming from the gamer side of me) it is still supported by most (if not all) games for windows.

Edit: PM me regarding an XP Pro key.

Oppconsulting · Post by **Oppconsulting** » 30 Aug 2007, 19:33

vista has allot of major problems and software compat problems I use a nlite xp pro with feb updates and nver ever update it any further key word never ever update it again the updates corrupt it allot of times run into allot of software updates that the newist are the worst

vista right now untill they get allot of service packs and crap out for it is very unstable uncompatable and not user friendly it also has the newest IE7 media player and other garbage and takes only the newest fastest machines out and also IE7 will not download stuff and has settings and bars buttons etc missing lots of stuff to config and very messy nasty I have a policy with my pc customers You go Vista I do not support You because of all this bullshit theyy want xp back on there pc come back

and also all my recent loads of win 2k have failed microsoft has shut down on the updates and etc so it is getting very hard to run the older systems and not really worth it I can get xp to run on evan a 350 pentium 2 so I just stick with xp pro SP2 modified with NLITE and a few other programs and tweeks and again dont ever update xp or your pc drivers I have found more crashes this way and harass my other tech friend who loves to update everything and always crashes his and his customer pcs by updateing me I never crash unless I do it on purpose by a install or other stupid thing so hey thats just my advice and experiance

good luck

Post by **floodhound2** » 30 Aug 2007, 21:49

Stavros wrote:There's one major reason I don't like Vista: If you install Vista, you will not be able to format with an XP disc.

Did i mis understand this?

NOT TRUE you can format any thing with any disk regardless of previous op-system.

shamir · Post by **shamir** » 30 Aug 2007, 22:01

floodhound2 wrote:
Did i mis understand this?

NOT TRUE you can format any thing with any disk regardless of previous op-system.

I agree with you 100 %

Oppconsulting · Post by **Oppconsulting** » 30 Aug 2007, 22:56

one word FDISK baby and any disk drive is history and then there hirens boot cd and other boot disks with higher versions and linex versions of FDISK and your hard disk is history no matter what the hell is on it and no matter what file sys fat fat 32 ntfs etc kiss it the hell good bye along with your files and also fdisk mbr the master boot record is now gone and want it way the hell toasted low level format that bitch thats all old school toys DOS always wins lmao but most Bios chips dont have low leval format anymore thats old days old computers like the tandy 1000s you kids probibly dont know what the hell those even are or a Honey well bull pc old 286 grew up on those things could entertain yourself with the defrag command and watch the microwave cart shake untill the day it fell over lmao here ya go a site of my era hard drives they weighed 10 or more pounds and shook tables lmao take a look the good old DOS days

http://redhill.net.au/d/d-a.html

I bet noboby remebers this stuff and am probibly adding and ageing myself way to much but o well http://redhill.net.au/c/c-1.html#z80

bubzuru · Post by **bubzuru** » 31 Aug 2007, 09:37

floodhound2 wrote:
Stavros wrote:There's one major reason I don't like Vista: If you install Vista, you will not be able to format with an XP disc.

Did i mis understand this?

NOT TRUE you can format any thing with any disk regardless of previous op-system.

this is true i had vista and xp on my laptop
then i just reformatted and used xp

you CAN still format just the same as before

Post by **Stavros** » 31 Aug 2007, 10:32

Then someone's going to have to explain to me why when I put my XP Home disc into my dad's fiancee's Vista laptop the XP disc would not recognize that there was a hard drive to format (it acted like no HDD was installed), yet I could boot into Vista with zero problems.

bubzuru · Post by **bubzuru** » 31 Aug 2007, 11:22

Stavros wrote:Then someone's going to have to explain to me why when I put my XP Home disc into my dad's fiancee's Vista laptop the XP disc would not recognize that there was a hard drive to format (it acted like no HDD was installed), yet I could boot into Vista with zero problems.

well man im not lier i had vista ultimate and xp pro sp2
then i deleted all partions made a fresh one then just installed
xp onto it no problems to delete the partions and make a fresh one i
used the xp install disk

here is a guide to boot both xp and vista
http://apcmag.com/5023/dual_booting_xp_with_vista

rhysh · Post by **rhysh** » 31 Aug 2007, 12:21

i recomend you use both,get a copy of virtual pc so u can boot of seerver 2003 and vista at the sametime,and more like linux and run all three at once

bubzuru · Post by **bubzuru** » 31 Aug 2007, 13:15

rhysh wrote:i recomend you use both,get a copy of virtual pc so u can boot of seerver 2003 and vista at the sametime,and more like linux and run all three at once

or use VMware Workstation that's wot i use work's
perfectly