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jacobk
Just installed my copy of Win2k Pro Final. (Won from a MS drawing). Now, I'm noticing that the when hard-drive or (especially) CD-ROM usage is high, the system becomes remarkably unresponsive. E. g. , it is impossible to navigate in an IE window while installing something off a CD.

Unreal Tournament
StuAllsopp
UT runs fine for me on 2183 (yes I know I should update) But when I play net games it's unplayable. At first I thought it was my connection but I shut down to 98 and it was fine. The game is totally lagged.

Creative Launcher is evil! help needed
Mr.Sneis
Upon finally getting creative launcher installed, when i run it, it make my sound all buggy, basically ive decided to scrap the SBLIVE LiveWare until good drivers come out. BUT I cant uninstall it because when i get to the uninstall screen and try to remove the program, it just freezes.

Transparency in Win2k
Zeke23
I noticed in some reviews that you could set certain windows to be transparent or see-through by using a third party program. Does anyone know a program that will do this?.

W2K & SMC EtherCard Elite
LoRdSpawn
hello i once tried to update to win2k and all hardware but my network adapter (SMC EliteCard 16 ULTRA) was recognized. . and that one is very important offcourz! does anyone know there are some 3rd party drivers for this adapter.

Diamond Stealth III S540
D2
Hello, im having problems with my Diamond Stealth III S540 AGP (Savage4 chip). All games that use 3D acceleration run extremelly SLOW, I tried to install the NT4 drivers but had no success. Does anyone have suggestions?.

Hollywood plus problems
Sikpupi
Apologies if this has been beaten to death but I have a Real magic h+ card. After installing the drivers of the site, when I go to play a DVD it says a compatible decoder card has not been detected, a DVD drive is not enough blah blah.

Intel CC820 motherboard?
shineon
Hello, i have this motherboard and i was curious if anyone has tried using windows2000 on this board i need to know if it is compatible with windows 2000 i am planning on buying win2000pro on the 17th and i need to know if i have to switch boards that would suck because i love this new board.

Soldier Of Fortune Demo Problem
LSD
Im running a voodoo 2 with unofficial drivers(glice and opengl icd but no d3d) and everytime i load SOF demo i get: Unable to load Opengl Environment (something like that) Any ideas why?? Thank you in Advance, LSD

If Windows 2000 is so powerful and manageable, what's the fu
Anonymous
I have never used diskeeper, but may do so depending on the responses I get on this thread. From what I know about Diskeeper, it defrags and a couple other small things. Well, if this is true, why use it? I can defrag my disks just fine (I think) using the build in defragmenting utility in Win2k.

New Banchee Drivers
jazTec
For all of you tweak monkeys out there 3dfx has just released new drivers for the banchee v1. 04. 00 The drivers are for the 9x operation system but, if anyone plays with them enuf we might be able to get them working in win2k.

Remotely rebooting??
Fusion
Hello, I am running a quake 3 server from a location miles away from my house and the ONLY thing i need to do to it remotely is to reboot it from time to time. Is there a way (without using pcanywhere or other programs) to remotely reboot the computer? Maybe using telnet or something?? I would need a step-by-step e ...

LX/BX Question
Syncope
I’m looking to extend they life of my dual-PII 333MHz (IntelliStation M Pro, LX chipset) until the end of this year (when I’m due for a new one). I’m not interested in overclocking. Also, I wish to keep the machine fully intact instead of migrating some components to a new machine.

HP P2B-VT Motherboard help
Kensan
I have an HP Pavilion 8595C. I have only limited features in the Bios, so I did some checking and found out it is an Asus board, but because its OEM its not listed on there web site. I ran PC Probe on it and it lists features available in the bios that I can't get to.

Matrox Mystique 220 + Abit BH6 v1.0 mobo + Win2000 (2195)
X-Stream
I can't boot into Windows 2000 (2195) with Matrox Mystique 220 + Abit BH6 v1. 0 mobo. . . My monitor suddenly turns into standby while windows2000 startup screen appears (I can't get into the GUI !!) But in Safe Mode I can.

Comments to W2k
Carver
Almost all us us have been using W2k for quite a while now. And the big day is not very far away. Soon W2k final will be in every store. What du you think about? I think it`s the best OS on the market (ok, soon on the market) right now.

Can't download from the net.
Beavis
Here is a strange thing that has been stumping me for the last 12 hours. I can log onto my wifes machine and access the internet through her internet connection sharing. I can check my e-mail and surf all day long.

Thandor, how to?
Preacher
Does anyone know how to install Thandor on a Windows 2000 (build 2195) system? Thanx in advance

Abit BP6 - Celeron 400's- 500's
bigb
How Stable is celeron 400's overclocked to 500mhz or higher on this board,,, has anyone done this? and how was it ,, must know fast ,, would like to buy a few of these setups (or should I). Thanks bigb.

16 bit hardware support
NascarFool
Will 16 bit hardware work in Win2K 2195 ? ie: Texas Instrument 1211-PCI Card Bus Controller (16 bit hardware)