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Well I finally installed xp. I gotta redo everything from reinstalling gr, ds, and IT, plus getting the settings for max and photoshop. May be a while until my next weapon  ;D

You will be much happier. Took me one day to get everything up and running. When you get back I should have a few more weapons for you ;D

Think thats one OS Ill never get on to, Im considering moving from 98 to 2000??

I also prefer 2000, but at least you can make XP look just like 2000; I can't go for all the fischer-price looking buttons, lol. :)

I tryed both i think 2000 is better. :)

I'm running 9x, 2k Pro and server, OS9, OSX and XP Pro (on different systems of course). XP Pro is the best of the lot.
It has the best USB support, excellent interface, and great memory management, especially if you have alot of RAM.
9x is just getting dated. 2k has horrific USB support, and can be very tempermental with games. XP's biggest problem is that it often chokes on legacy devices like parallel printers.
If you don't like XP's look, choose the classic interface or get a program like WindowBlinds. It has some great skins for XP.
You may want to check this page out. Its instructions for making a bootable/installable XP SP1 CD. It's a nice time saver.
http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?id=160&object=article.cfm

Yep, it's partly a matter of preference, partly depends on what hardware you are using. For me, XP is way too heavy and has too much big brother stuff hidden in it. Also, like ogre said, it's not inclined to use older devices that rely on the old non-USB ports. It's powerful, and stable, and has some nice Plug and Play and networking features, but 2000 allows more freedom-especially if you are inclined to use "pirated" software.  ;)  Anything older than 2000, and also the horrible windows ME, are just too unreliable. Also, I'm the type that hates putting cosmetic apps into my OS, just more things running in the background, more reasons for problems.

I've been repairing peoples' machines and refurbishing units for Compaq, Dell and HP for a living for the past 7-8 years, with the exception of last year, which I spent repairing/refurbishing Dell and Compaq server systems. I'll knock out at least 15 machines a day, (mandatory minimum :( ) , so multiply that by 7 years, and you'll feel my pain, lol. When I started out, Windows 3.1 was the norm and half the time you were in DOS tying to work things out. I still have a box set of IBM's OS-2! ;D
My how things have changed,... or have they? Unfortunately, Microsoft is still limited to the same memory management structure that they developed for DOS, I guess the more things change the more they stay the same.  ;)

Heh OS X Rulez All :)