re: downgrade to 2000
Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by phantom
(5587 messages posted)
Hi Masterman,
Thanks for the info. I too am partial to 2000. I am going to try to live with Vista
for awhile. The windows hurt my eyes but I am not on it too long. I had Comp USA
try to upgrade to XP but they couldn't do it so they gave me a new same model computer.
I do know haw todo a clean install of XP if I want to later. I found the info on
the Lenova web site forum. I downloaded all of the necessary drivers from Lenova
and Microsoft and burned them to a disc.
I still have 2000 on my desktop and don't think I will ever change it.
On Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 4:58 am, Alan Masterman wrote:
>Hi Phantom,
>Welcome to the club. In my opinion, Windows 2000 was arguably the finest operating
>system Microsoft has produced so far.
>I tried upgrading an Extensa 5620 from Vista to Windows 2000. To my surprise, I
>found that all of the Vista drivers worked; I only had to reset the BIOS to select
>IDE mode rather than SATA. This required re-flashing with a BIOS update. The only
>problem I hadn't expected was that the fonts looked pretty cheesy, because Windows
>2000 was not designed with the wide-screen format in mind. But everything worked.
>I second the advice others have given you regarding XP. It is more compatible with
>the wide-screen format, has better driver support than Windows 2000, and of course
>you can customise it to look exactly like Windows 2000 anyway. And with all that
>memory you will no longer need, you could set up a RAM drive just for your pagefile,
>which will boost system performance.
>
>
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