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Originally Posted by dave6x
Maybe Win2K does everything he needs to do efficiently on elderly hardware!
Win2k is the last mainstream OS produced by M$ that is relatively free of bloatware therefore it runs efficiently on elderly PCs with limited resources. My spare lappy is a very elderly Tosh that I use for playing with small Linux distros, and that struggles with XP but runs a treat under Win2KPro.
I'm also using an old desktop running Win2KPro as a MIDI slave linked to a digital piano, does everything I need it to do so no need to "upgrade"!
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I guess, but it's not terribly difficult to open services.msc and gpedit.msc then turn off a bunch of pointless crap you don't need. It's the reason my six year old laptop runs fully updated Win7 at speeds comparable to XP even before turning off the few Aero effects I like (taskbar thumbnails, win-tab switching). I figure if he's desperate to get the hardware going the odds of getting XP drivers are higher and could save hours of 2K based frustration.
