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Me was always a giant piece of unstable ---- for me.
i run xp w/sp2 but nno updates. my pc hardly ever gets rebooted (maybe once a week)

Its an asus barebone with an amd 3800x2 with 2 gigs of ram

Re: alright pc people I need help
 

win 2k ftw!

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I think XP is like 26 dollars at my schools book store.

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yep, 2k pro is the best version of windows.

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If you want the most stable microsoft os then go windows 2000 professional. If you need easy user interface ---- and better multimedia support grab xp. Either way your files will be transfered over, windows doesn't delete saved data when you upgrade your installation. The easiest way to find the cheapest price, without illegally downloading, is to get a friend of yours who is a student or pay some random student to buy a copy for you (unless you're lucky enough to know a microsoft employye then it is all about the employee store).

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I believe microsoft cranked out win 2k as fast as possible because of the law suits saying they had a monopoly and had to show their compeitors the build files of one of theirs os's.

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any upgrade of windows (aside from service packs) are junk.

d/l partition magic.
make a new partition and put all your MP3's, Pics, Porn etc etc on that partition.

install a clean install of windows on the other partition
using the partition program, merge both into 1 partition and you're done.