Which operating system is the best?

[dew7]

Has Windows 2000 ever given you a BSOD?

[Yonkey]

Yup.  It looks pretty much the same as XP's BSOD.

[dew7]

Thanks for replying!   

[dew7]

Well Microsofts next operating system Vista has now been delayed from November 2006 until January 2007.

[Storm]

XP does give the BSOD occasionally.

I never got a BSOD on XP
Sure, it would crash sometimes and suddenly reboot or give the "there's been an error and can we tell our big brother server about it" message, but no actual blue in sight... I figured they stopped using it for PR reasons.

[Yonkey]

Those actually are the BSOD's.  It's just by default, they're set to automatically reboot your computer rather than display them.

[dew7]

I guess the reason being that it is supposed to be more user friendly.
   

[racx_00]

I actually saw the BSOD though, I had to restart the computer myself.

Might have had something to do with running XP on FAT32.

[dew7]

Well in XP -- (at least in XP Pro.) you can configure the options to have the computer reboot or show you a BSOD.   

[racx_00]

Well I have XP Pro, and I wouldn't have a clue how to configure that.

[Oldbushie]

I've got mine looking like Win98.

At least I fixed it so that it doesn't crash quite as much.

[dew7]

Well I have XP Pro, and I wouldn't have a clue how to configure that.

1.  Open Control Panel
2.  Open System (I have mine in Classic mode -- imo much easier to work with)
3.  Click Advanced tab
4.  Under Startup and Recovery -- click settings
5.  In the middle of the box you will see system failure and can check or uncheck box that says Automatically restart to show whether or not you want your BSOD.

 

[dew7]

I've got mine looking like Win98.

At least I fixed it so that it doesn't crash quite as much.

Do you mean that you have the settings on Classic mode.  If so then I also have mine on Classic mode.  :->  BTW, how did you fix your computer so it did not crash that much.  I am just wondering -- fortunately mine seems to hardly ever crash   

[racx_00]

Well I have XP Pro, and I wouldn't have a clue how to configure that.

1.  Open Control Panel
2.  Open System (I have mine in Classic mode -- imo much easier to work with)
3.  Click Advanced tab
4.  Under Startup and Recovery -- click settings
5.  In the middle of the box you will see system failure and can check or uncheck box that says Automatically restart to show whether or not you want your BSOD.

 

THanks for that! I have the control panel in classic as well, too confusing otherwise.

[Oldbushie]

I basically disabled all the unnecessary startup programs and services. I like having the bare essentials and nothing more.

[dew7]

You're welcome, racx!

Well I hope you still have a firewall enabled along with antivirus and antispyware, oldbushie.   

[dew7]

This was from the microsoft 98 general newsgroup from

98 Guy

"I have a LOT against XP.

XP should never have been pushed into the home computer market
starting in 2002 as a replacement for Win-98 or Win-Me.  The reason
why spam exploded in 2003 and malware has exploded is because of the
many vulnerabilities that XP had when it first came out.  Why
microsoft left so many services turned on by default in XP-home
boarders on criminal.  Home and SOHO systems have absolutely no need
for the various remote-admin services and user/privilege hierarchy that
is inherent in any NT-based Os like XP.  XP is an over-managed and
over-complicated OS (not to mention over-vulnerable). 

Where I work, we ship computers for industrial/scientific use with
specialized hardware (that we design/build) and software (that we
write).  XP is installed on those computers (only because stupid-ass
sys-admins pretty much make it a defacto requirement for any computer
that's connected to end-customers' networks).  Because the computer
hardware is identical, I clone each XP installation from a master
system (never have any problems with WGA/WPA).  That way, I can keep a
single system patched (and optimized, tweaked, etc) and just clone it
as needed.

While our computers ship with XP, our developers stick with Win-2k,
and everyone else (admin, sales, production) run Win-98.  We have 2
servers (web, pop-mail, etc) running NT-4, and they run by themselves
in a room that can go weeks without anyone needing to go in and do
something.  Because we run largely Win-98 systems, we don't have a
need for a full-time (or even part-time) IT person.  Inter-office
e-mail is handled by the ancient (but bullet-proof) MS-Mail, and we
run a no-longer-available SMTP package on one of our NT-servers
(Post.Office).   Our office PC's are P-4 machines with 80 gig drives
and 512MB of ram with NVidia AGP video cards with Office 2000 pro.
Needless to say, they're pretty stable with Win-98.

So don't tell me that Win-98 isn't suitable for corporate or business
environments.  Microsoft has a vested interest to sling mud at Win-98,
and various fools and lemmings will always believe them."

[Yonkey]

Win98 is fine if you're running older software, and non-memory intensive programs.  However, I'm pretty sure it's just as vulnerable to spyware as any other Windows O/S.  When did you say MS will stop offering Windows Updates for 98 again, June?

[dew7]

The current date of end of life for 98, 98SE and ME is set for
July 11, 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/support/endofsupport.mspx

[Oldbushie]

I sure hope ReactOS gets reasonably finished soon...