Win2k...I like it. [Archive] - FreeWebspace.net

Canuckkev

June 1st, 2001, 16:55

Just installed Windows 2000 Pro last night, and rid myself of 98 horrors(well, a lot more than 98 horrors, but a whole buch of problems with win 98). So far, it has been great! One thing I have noticed quite a bit was the speed of the internet. I have aDSL, and it would take about 5 or 6 seconds to load a page, and when it did load, half the images didn't show up, and I usually had to refresh because of some DNS error. Probably the same reason why I couldn't access Google. Well, now I can get to google.com, all the images show up, and it takes less than a second between pages. The only problem I have had so far is a program error with Outlook. Not bad.

So, I am glad that I bought(yeah...) win2k and installed it. It is a lot better than win 98.

Coolin

June 1st, 2001, 17:52

This is what I've been trying to tell everyone with Windows problems!

I'm glad you saw the light! :)

Epgs

June 1st, 2001, 18:43

go with linux. but yeah 2000 is better than 98. I believe XP is the best though. Most stable i have ever seen. even more than 2000.

Coolin

June 1st, 2001, 19:08

XP? More stable than 2000? Give me a break :rolleyes:

By the way... Where did you get XP?

Epgs

June 1st, 2001, 20:54

i got xp from my sources and it is more stable, i left my computer on for over 5 months whereas i could only leave my 2000 machine running same everything on for 3 months.

Gayowulf

June 1st, 2001, 21:40

Originally posted by Epgs
i got xp from my sources and it is more stable, i left my computer on for over 5 months whereas i could only leave my 2000 machine running same everything on for 3 months.

He's a criminal; I can tell...

Canuckkev

June 1st, 2001, 21:51

Well, isn't everyone a criminal? I know I am (see my first post, saying I "bought" win2k.)

Epgs

June 1st, 2001, 21:59

Originally posted by Canuckkev
Well, isn't everyone a criminal? I know I am (see my first post, saying I "bought" win2k.)

no i actually have a legal copy i just cna't say where i got it from. my xp is legal though. all my os's are legal, well one i am not sure about but to my knowledge my os's are legal.

Coolin

June 1st, 2001, 23:54

If it's legal, why are you so afraid to tell where you got it from? If you got it from Microsoft, they won't put you in jail telling us that you got it from them. After all... It isn't a top secret OS.

LeX

June 2nd, 2001, 07:46

He legally got it from warez distributers... *LOLOL* :D

Epgs

June 2nd, 2001, 13:24

ok fine i am a microsoft beta tester, just i don't like to tell everyone cause then they all want copies of it.

Coolin

June 2nd, 2001, 14:41

Originally posted by Epgs
ok fine i am a microsoft beta tester, just i don't like to tell everyone cause then they all want copies of it.
Ooh! Can I have a copy? ;)

coolguy23

June 2nd, 2001, 16:00

come on, hook me up with one too, lol!!

Canuckkev

June 2nd, 2001, 17:48

I could be a beta tester too. Lots of beta testers release the software online. But I thought win2k would be better than Win XP.

Coolin

June 2nd, 2001, 18:51

Originally posted by Canuckkev
But I thought win2k would be better than Win XP.
Would you trust an OS that's been patched twice or a beta?

}:8) Supermoo

June 2nd, 2001, 18:53

Coolin:
Would you trust an OS that's been patched twice or a beta?

Would you trust an OS made by Microsoft? ;)

Coolin

June 2nd, 2001, 18:55

Originally posted by }:8) Supermoo
Would you trust an OS made by Microsoft? ;)
Nope.

But if I had to. It would be Windows 2000.

}:8) Supermoo

June 2nd, 2001, 18:57

True... imagine AOL making an OS.... :eek:

Coolin

June 2nd, 2001, 19:18

Originally posted by }:8) Supermoo
True... imagine AOL making an OS.... :eek: It would be even more "user-friendly" (a.k.a. dumb) than XP and Mac! :eek:

polestar

June 3rd, 2001, 05:43

Only the next generation of AOL apps would run on AOL OS, like AOL-word. It'd be just like like MSword but you wouldn't be able to turn off the stupid cartoon character at the bottom of the screen.

Oh and when you pressed CTRL-ALT-DELETE you'd have a list of about 50 invisible programs running in the background, just to make things a little less stable.

Epgs

June 3rd, 2001, 19:32

Originally posted by polestar
Only the next generation of AOL apps would run on AOL OS, like AOL-word. It'd be just like like MSword but you wouldn't be able to turn off the stupid cartoon character at the bottom of the screen.

Oh and when you pressed CTRL-ALT-DELETE you'd have a list of about 50 invisible programs running in the background, just to make things a little less stable.

well the 50 invisible things in the backround is true with microsoft too

Coolin

June 3rd, 2001, 19:36

Funny... I only see 26 on my Windows 2000 system...

LeX

June 3rd, 2001, 23:18

Only 16 on my Win98.

Gayowulf

June 3rd, 2001, 23:29

While we're on this subject why dont we all take screenshots of our taskbar (http://www.allvit.org.kg/taskbar.jpg) , showing off how far our tray streches across it

LeX

June 3rd, 2001, 23:53

Mine recently sized down a bit, after I uninstalled some useless programs.

My taskbar (http://www.dto.f2s.com/Duhh/taskbar.gif)

Coolin

June 3rd, 2001, 23:54

I see you have advanced zip password recovery on. What are you doing? ;)

Anyway, here's the stuff. CLICK HERE YOU LAMERS!!! (http://www.coolin.f2s.com/taskbar.gif)

Gayowulf

June 4th, 2001, 00:04

Originally posted by Coolin
I see you have advanced zip password recovery on. What are you doing? ;)

To tell you the truth, i got it a couple weeks ago just to test it out. i haven t used it since. BTW, how do YOU know what its icon looks like?

Coolin

June 4th, 2001, 00:08

Originally posted by Gayowulf

To tell you the truth, i got it a couple weeks ago just to test it out. i haven t used it since. BTW, how do YOU know what its icon looks like? I was walking around one day when I met a man who said... Do you want WarCraft II? I said... Yes! He said... here it is! I said... thanks! He said... no problem. So I went home and tried to open it. Stupid zip password protection! So I went around and saw another man who said... your face looks like you can't open a zip password. I said... how did you know? He said... uh. just have this. I said thanks. And yet, I still can't open the file. It just takes too long.

LeX

June 4th, 2001, 00:18

For some reason, my AZPR (cracked version :p) can't work with more than 5 characters... like, it stops scanning after it's done with all the possible 5 character combos. So, with one of my passwords which goes "http://www." in the beginning... it'll never reach that far.

Coolin

June 4th, 2001, 00:19

If the password is 20 letters long... The thing will take like a year to crack.

gyrbo

June 4th, 2001, 05:14

Ok, this is my taskbar

Canuckkev

June 4th, 2001, 19:02

Just commenting on a few things...
This topic started out about liking win2k, to AOL OS, then programs running in the background, to how many things in your taskbar, to AZPR...and so on.

As for taskbar icons, I have NONE!!! As you see in this forums first post, I just installed win2k, and haven't installed any crap programs that clog up the task bar and hog resources.

As for AZPR, I tried it (cracked, of course :) ) It did take quite a while to crack some passwords. I originally got it to crack passwords that started with a "http://www.", but the estimate was that it would take 2 years or something. It takes like five minutes to find those kind of files somewhere else, so I didn't waste time cracking passwords. I tried it on a 3 letter password, and it got it in less than a second. I have also tried some online password crackers, and hacked my own hotmail account. That was easy, too easy.

Background programs, only 18!!! Plus ones I KNOW I have open. Does windows really need all those programs running?

Gayowulf

June 4th, 2001, 19:22

Originally posted by Canuckkev
I have also tried some online password crackers, and hacked my own hotmail account. That was easy, too easy.

Knowing your password and secret question probably helped ;)

LeX

June 4th, 2001, 20:38

Not enough. You would also need to know the secret answer. ;)

Canuckkev

June 4th, 2001, 21:32

Well..knowing the password doesn't matter when you use brute force to crack it(111111...111112...111113). It did help that I only cycled through 6 letter combinations, because I knew the password length already.

Coolin

June 4th, 2001, 21:34

Hmm... Interesting. Where's that Hotmail account hacker? I think my password is relatively secure: pretty long, has numbers and letters, doesn't form a word etc... But I would like to see how secure it is if I ever meet a hacker.

LeX

June 4th, 2001, 21:55

I thought the password for Hotmail is 8 characters min.

Gayowulf

June 5th, 2001, 00:01

It is now, but it was recently changed to 8 from 6. Coolin- I know a way of 'hacking' a hotmail account, but it doesnt involve your password.

Coolin

June 5th, 2001, 00:45

Actually, I wanted to check my password security, not hack. But it would be cool ;)

}:8) Supermoo

June 5th, 2001, 01:59

Hotmail = Microsoft = Evil ;)

}:8) Supermoo

June 5th, 2001, 02:18

PS. Thought I might aswell post my taskbar here aswell! :)

Coolin

June 5th, 2001, 02:19

I see you use Windows 2000 also Supermoo. Or did you just change your color settings? Also, what resolution did you use? The thing's huge on my 800x600 screen.

}:8) Supermoo

June 5th, 2001, 02:21

Win2k for me at hybrid 3600x2700 mode. ;)

Coolin

June 5th, 2001, 02:24

Actually, I think you just modified your taskbar with an image editing program.

}:8) Supermoo

June 5th, 2001, 02:28

What makes you think that? It wasn't the winking smiley face was it? ;)

LeX

June 5th, 2001, 03:09

Why would you need so big a resolution? Are cows near-sighted? :confused:

Epgs

June 5th, 2001, 09:31

i would love to have a resolution like that.

LastActionHero

June 5th, 2001, 13:06

Originally posted by LeX
Why would you need so big a resolution? Are cows near-sighted? :confused:

LOL :D

btw what does NAHI above your avatar mean Lex?

LeX

June 5th, 2001, 19:29

New Age Human Intelligence
or
Neo Artificial Human Intelligence

I haven't decided which one - maybe it'll be both. :)

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If you think up of something even more cheesey, then I may want to borrow it... ;)