I wish to know the visual differences between the following two OS: Windows 2000 Professional and Windows 2000 Embedded. How do i find out visually and programatically, which of the above two OS is installed on my system.

Right click on My Computer and choose Properties. The OS version will be listed there in the General tab. Google for Win2000 embedded to find out what it is if it turns out you have that.

I have a OS installed on one system.The user claims that it is Windows 2k embedded. When i right click on MyComputer and check the properties, it displays Win2k Professional. When asked about this, the user replies saying that the two OS are bit-compatible for most part, so, even he is not aware of the differences between the two. Also, I don't see any information (when was it launched in market etc...) on Google regarding Window 2000 embedded. Any help on this will be appreciated.

Did you Google? Sounds like embedded may be stripped of many drivers and may not run on different hardware than what it was designed for. That shouldn't be a problem because you should be able to slipstream any necessary drivers. Other than that I don't know anything about embedded.

Wasn't too hard to find. There was no 2000 embedded. XPe is embedded. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histor... There was windows ce http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micros...

"Difference between Win2kPro & Win2k Embedded" Win2K Pro = real Win2K Embedded = fantasy See above response.