Windows 2000
I recently ungraded my home machine from Windows NT 4.0 Sp3 to Windoew 2000.
Everyone I talked to said they liked Win2k. I finally took the plunge because
the video editing software I wanted to try did not run on NT.
Well, the upgrade was a little rocky but it did work. First off I needed to
have 600MB free on my C: drive. hah! who has 600mb free on C:? Not me,
that's for sure. Then, after it installed and rebooted in Win2k (insuring
that I'd *never* be able to run WinNT again) I got a blue screen. Bummer
dude. Luckily I've been here before and held back the urge to convert the
drive to NTFS. I went to MS's web site and noticed some tech notes on
DirectCD crashing the Win2k setup. The note stated how to turn off the
services which DirectCD had installed. I was able to boot a DOS (remember dos?)
floppy and simply remove the bad .sys files. (I used to write NT services
so I know what to look for :-) This fixed the problem. I want to thank
my guardian angel for putting that web site entry together...
Anyway, it booted up and the setup worked. I actually like Win2k. It's
a bit of 'fresh and new' UI and seems to work well. All my old apps work
fine (so far). I'm now a 2000's kind-of-guy.