Can I Use It? - Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional

Comments

• IE is Evil!!!

  April 2017

  When it is fully updated Windows 2000 is surprisingly stable and works like a charm. With Blackwingcat's kernel extender and the ACL, it is capable of running software designed for XP.
• BigCJ

  April 2017

  Now this is a legitimate test. Instead of half-broken betas, this one shows a setup someone might actually use.
  
  On that ease of install thing, all versions of NT were like that. Firefox is a good browser, and it's pretty cool that an older version works as well as it does. Running Gmail in basic mode is alright too, I do it all the time just because I like the simplified no-nonsense look. For streaming music, have you tried Pandora? Office 2003 works perfectly fine under Win2k, so your office suite is taken care of right there.
  
  Overall, Windows 2000 is a great OS. I even keep Professional loaded on the computer I use to store my backups. Although I never go on the internet with it, I can edit documents, compress files with WinRAR, and play all my media files with the help of a codec pack. Good to know it could still do just about everything web-related if necessary.
• LouieTheOSPerson

  April 2017

  BigCJ wrote:

  Now this is a legitimate test. Instead of half-broken betas, this one shows a setup someone might actually use.
  
  On that ease of install thing, all versions of NT were like that. Firefox is a good browser, and it's pretty cool that an older version works as well as it does. Running Gmail in basic mode is alright too, I do it all the time just because I like the simplified no-nonsense look. For streaming music, have you tried Pandora? Office 2003 works perfectly fine under Win2k, so your office suite is taken care of right there.
  
  Overall, Windows 2000 is a great OS. I even keep Professional loaded on the computer I use to store my backups. Although I never go on the internet with it, I can edit documents, compress files with WinRAR, and play all my media files with the help of a codec pack. Good to know it could still do just about everything web-related if necessary.

  
  Is Pandora a free or paid service? If it is free, I will try it on an older OS! I won't try it on my host since I have a Spotify Premium subscription anyway. I know, Windows 2000 is still very functional even today. I would just avoid going online with it, like you said, since most of the big software companies no longer support 2000 which means it is more vulnerable to newer and more advanced attacks which nobody likes! :thumbdown:
• BigCJ

  April 2017

  Yes, basic Pandora is free, with premium subscriptions available. If I had to use nothing but an old box, I'd put it behind a firewall, find the most up-to-date AV for it and go to as few sites as possible to try to avoid being attacked.
• Bry89

  April 2017

  LouieTheOSPerson wrote:

  I would just avoid going online with it, like you said, since most of the big software companies no longer support 2000 which means it is more vulnerable to newer and more advanced attacks which nobody likes! :thumbdown:

  To be fair, I don't think any of these threats out there would even work on it. They're more interested in attacking and exploiting XP and now Vista. Also, Avast 8 has support for Win2000 as someone else here told me about so you can use that to protect yourself, should you be concerned about anything.
• LouieTheOSPerson

  April 2017

  Good point, I would get that hackers would want to attack XP (11% of computers running the OS), but why Vista (0.73% of computers running the OS). I wouldn't attack 2000 or Vista but Windows 7 since over 50% of computers still run it, even if it is 7 years old, 8 in October. (Yes, I remember OS birthdays aswell as people birthdays. )