[Woodman]

Dale,

Can you please tell us what advantages you see in reverting to Win2K?
• Better Security?
• Increased Stability?
• Interoperability?
• Increased Performance?
• Ease of Use?
I really am curious about what you expect to get out of this change. Windows XP was built on top of the Windows 2000 Kernel and there are far more similarities than there are differences.

[goldstategop]

WinXP is a flashier and more consumer friendly version of Win2K, which was marketed for business and laptop users.

[dalec]

• Better Security?
• Increased Stability?
• Interoperability?
• Increased Performance?
• Ease of Use?

Most of the features added to XP are things I don't want.
All the software I installed worked with XP as well as WIN2K
I'll let you know in a few weeks after I've used it more but if you read my original Post and the articles on Free Republic archives you get the picture. I made a decision based on the information from other informed users who were
not Microsoft moles. Once all the software is installed it becomes very time consuming to change operating systems.
It took two weeks of hassle but thats better that sticking with an operating system that has the "big brother" features
of XP.

[New Horizon]

There is absolutely no advantage in downgrading to 2K from XP. I run XP on many systems and have had almost zero problems...plus the speed increase in XP over 2K is incredible.

I wonder how many of the XP bashers are actually using the "Home Edition" version as opposed to XP Professional? I know from experience that a lot of "friends" who usually only call when they have system problems have Home Edition. First order of business? Upgrade to Windows XP Professional. Problem usually solved. For my servers, however, Windows 2000 Server is the choice. I plan on upgrading to .NET (2003) in the near future. Very nice...it looks like XP!!!