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Let's be real, Windows 2000 ran reasonably well on only 128mb of memory... if it needed megabytes like modern apps, it wouldn't be very useful, especially when
by nubinetwork 6mo ago
Let's be real, Windows 2000 ran reasonably well on only 128mb of memory... if it needed megabytes like modern apps, it wouldn't be very useful, especially when you're low on memory.
- carefree-bob 6mo agoWin2K was peak windows for me. Every subsequent version has gotten worse from my POV.
- bombcar 6mo agoI'd probably lean towards Windows XP with the W2k theme (at least later in its life) but it was basically the same thing. Main difference was easier-to-install video card drivers, though you could often get them to work on W2k by editing INI files.
- ahartmetz 6mo agoYes. A no frills but full-featured NT. It was the best version of Windows.
- naikrovek 6mo agoAgreed. Even WinXP had goofy web technology tied into File Explorer (called “Windows Explorer” then, I believe). Win2K was just optimal, for me, for what I was doing at the time.
- Grumbledour 6mo agoI think Win2k already had that. As far as I remember, the explorer sidebar, the white box with the colored line under the heading, already being HTML. I loved hacking on that back then to customize my windows experience.
- 72deluxe 6mo agoYes, it was called Active Desktop and it was much older than Win2K: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop If you changed the colour scheme on Windows 98, none of the cloud images were transparent in Explorer (they assumed the background was white) so you'd end up with these weird clouds/sky fading into a white background and then a hard line into whatever colour you'd set your background to. The desktop was very sluggish if you added an active desktop to it, as IE4 had to run; at least it was on my underpowered machine. Additionally it came with a screensaver that you could interact with, which was odd because normally moving the mouse dismissed the screensaver.
- naikrovek 6mo agoActive Desktop was a different thing, on top of what I was talking about. But the post parent to yours was correct about HTML being in Win2k: https://imgur.com/ncvvBY0 https://imgur.com/ncvvBY0 That infopanel on the left is HTML.