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At my house I have a computer which runs off a Unix type shell and one which runs Windows 95. For the past month or so I have had lots of problems with my machine that runs Win95, and there seems to be no way to fix them...I don't want to abondon my windows machine so I decided to upgrade to a more up-to-date windows version, but which? WinXP, NT, 2000,????

Let me here what all you have to say about these OS and tell me which you think would be the right move.

lol i still run win95, i never have to much problems cept for some compatibilty issues with my aztec sounds card. so in short WIN95/4EVER

Ranking from best to worst

1) Win2k
2) WinXP
3) Win98
4) WinME

I second that.

I'm running XP on this box rite now, i love it, I HAD to have file sharing, and 2k was too much of a jew with file shares, so...

i agree with giz there, xp is soo much easyer to setup your fileshare and networking.

Finally upgraded gizzy?

/me gets on top of unreal who preceded to get on top of Mr Hack. Yes, by that i mean i agree with SR.

/me rumps Gizzy a few times with the weight of 3

ya, I guess windows sharing with Win2k is kinda w0rd. I setup my shares, and I can connect to other shares easily enough, but when somebody tries to connect to my computer - it asks for a password. I tried every password I had on this computer and none worked! Dunno what I'm missing here.

lol...I had that exact same problem SR...

nah,,,didn't fix it mainly cuz I didn't care about having file shares...

I just wanted to say though, for that, and many other reasons...I would only swap 1 and 2 around...

XP,2k,98,95....ME just....shouldn't have existed...

Windows 95 isnt even on SR's list.......

you silly rabbit. 95 isn't on the damn list cause I was giving you a list of what you should UPGRADE to from best to worst. You wanna upgrade from 95 to 95? Be my guest.

Well, he could be upgrading 95 to 95b hehe...

sr, im sharing files on my win2k machine, and i think i know what your talking about. like when my sister tries to access my movie folder, \\vladmir (my comps leet name) \MOVIES a login window popus up, rite? all you have to do is log in with a user name and password from my computer (vladmir). so from my sisters comp, i log in to the shared folder with my login for my computer...
im pretty sure thats how it works.

olo, it just asks for a password, if i recall it stats $ip or some [censored] like that, it just asks for a pass...

you need to have an account on the win2k machine, with the user that your logged on as on the machine thats runing 98 95 whatever. So on 98 you dont really change users so whatever the name that you put in during the install give it an account on 2k and a pass and it should work fine. does for me.

well was running 98 untill i put XP on it and then f**king every tyme i goto open a folder or drive or anything the computer just turnt off... ( so then i put 2000 on it and it was running perfect so i put XP on it agian and the same thing happened....so now i have ME (

ya, like Gizmo said. You can't even view my shared resources. The moment you double-click on \\Master in the network neighborhood - you get a login prompt with a "username" that cannot be edited.

Alright thanx...but what about WinNT?? Hows that match up to the rest...ease of use and all that bs is no problem...I just want a solid Windows platform.

And one more thing...is it possible to have a machine that has both a Unix and a Windows OS? You would just select which to run while Bios is still booting it up or something like that?

Answer 1: darnit, I forgot NT. That alone should say something.

Answer 2: Yes, dual boot works.

Thanxz SilentRage...I think I'm going to go with a dual boot, WinXP and Unix.

Hell tripple boot even works :x...

I like win2k the most... i would use it if you want sumthing really stable. I cant stand XP... the chiddish interface ( i know you can use classical mode) and it requires alot of memory. I like win98SE, i get a few errors every now and then but it has been good for gaming etc. really fast... alot faster than XP and when i installed XP like a few days later the damn thing crashed every time i restarted it. sum I/O error. Im running trios (triple harddrive selector) and running win98SE on a 30gig and win2k on a 6gig and i mostly use win2k every time i get on my computer.