Hello all. I would just like to ask those who read this message on how good is windows 2000 fo home use. I heard from a couple of my friends the win2k does not support certain drivers and games, which that's for me in the bad side. Well...in the good side, they say that if it does support a game...it is very stable. They also told me the win2k is very stable compared to win98. Well..just wanna know more about win2k before i install it. Another thing...win2k runs under what partition? Win98 runs under FAT32 right? What about win2k? Thanks for following up my message! :)

I don't game much, so I can't speak to win2k's gaming abilities. What I can tell you without a doubt is that it is very stable. Win2k runs on the NTFS partition type (yes Win98 runs on FAT32). This file type is more stables and handles, when you have to, "hard" shutdowns much better than FAT32/16 (don't always have to scandisk like Win98). Before installing, you will want to check that your hardware is win2k compatible...i've had problems getting some devices to work. Many manufactures have updates or rigs to make it work available on their web sites, but it would be wise to check first. I've only had it crash once on me and that was when I had jumpers configured wrong. Good luck if you do decide to install.

Only game I play is quake3 arena and it works great for that. All around, I find it much much stabler than win98. I didn't use the ntfs file system though, I stuck with fat32.
We use our machines for business 95% of the time and I believe it was money well spent.
You do have to watch for compatibility issues on older machines though.

It is more stable than windows 98...unless you need the extra capabilities of NTFS I would definitely stay with fat 32 or 16. It will only cause compatitability problems down the road. If you are a gamer it plays most Windows games pretty well and some games just as well. It wont play your dos only games at all. If your a gamer.....then NTFS is out of the question since most Windows games wont work. Its smooth, fast and stable....and worth the cost of upgrading if those qualities appeal to you. Actually Windows 98 can be pretty stable if you set it up right and don't install multitudes of Shareware, Freeware programs. Commercial software can cause problems too.......they overwrite files and when there uninstalled they can take vital files with them. Leaving leftover entries in the registry that can cause instability issues as well.

I don't know where "Undo" gets his info, but I'm running W2K with NTFS and just about every game I have works fine. I couldn't get Tomb Raider 2 or 3 to work, but Unreal, Quake 2, Quake 3 Arena, Half-Life, Deus Ex, etc. all work fine. Sometimes a game won't work, and to check I usually download the demo and see what happens before I buy.

NTFS is great for security, if that's of interest. It's also more efficient and you get faster disk access than FAT32. I upgraded my wife's W98SE machine to W2K with absolutely no problems. My computer with NT4SP5 had several problems, and I spent the better part of a week getting the system fully operational under W2K (I also had to buy some replacement hardware: a new modem and a new NIC). Both computers are extremely stable, with very few problems. We are using Intuit's Quickbooks Pro 2000 for my business, and the "Timer" timekeeping program will occasionally go bananas and lock up (it's an old 16-bit, Visual Basic 3 program); you can get into Task Manager and shut down the Timer program, but it leaves a persistant tone coming out the speakers forcing you to either log off or restart the computer to re-initialize the sound card. However, that's the only program thats given me any trouble. A lot of 16-bit programs just won't work right under W2K, so beware of any programs that are more than two or three years old.

Whatever you decide, good luck.

For upgrading to W2K (from W98) I didn't need to replace any part of my PC which I bought in May'99. And.... I don't think the NTFS will be the first reason for being unable to play games designed for W98 because NTFS is only related to how data is stored in HD

If you are not an NT novice, but you ace Win98, then stick with Win 98. You will be crying like the rest of the folks, who were unable to uninstall Win2k after they decided that they wanted win98 back. If you have a large HD, you can partition it so that you can have two different operation systems on different partitions.

I run three different operating systems on different partitions. I'm not ready to completely do away with win98.

I installed Windows 2000 in June. It just won't crash. I am impressed with it's stability and speed. It works excellent with Office 2000. If you know what your doing go ahead and upgrade. You wont be sorry.

I have a Tyan MB w/PII 350, BX chipset and 264m of ram.The first time I installed Win2000, I upgraded from Win98, and the results were less than pleasent. Using Norton Disk Doctor on floppy,and booting from a Win98SE disk, I managed to use the hex editor to scramble the boot partition. After rebooting with Win98SE boot disk, I am able to reinstall Win98SE. Then I tried a "clean" install of Win2000 and will never go back! All my games run great with updated drivers for NVidia 3D cards. Keep your OS updated and you will find a very stable and robust gaming platform. I game online and with the AI. I am very happy with my Win2000 gaming platform.I have even run some old dos games like Gary Grigsby's Pacific War! The only problem I had was Panzer General 2. but this is moot, for thier is a windows native PG out now. Happy Gaming! NOTE: I also use the NTFS file system with no problems. Built in security!

It won't crash? wish I could say the same. Ntcompatible.com lists software that it incompatible for NT, 2k, XP. Unfortunately I have several older dos games which don't work with win2k, or work half-assed like red alert 2 does. Supposedly win2k supports direct x8.0a, yet it doesn't work with games that use direct x 3.0, 5.0, 7.0. What is the deal here? no backwards compatibility with Direct Draw? Other than my gaming woes, I really like win2k, but looks like I'll be using Xp, since I really want support for those games.