Whats the difference with windows xp and windows 2000 NT?

[Miss A]

Hey guys,

can anyone tell me the difference between Windows 2000 NT and XP?? I hear xp is less likely to crash and more effient.

[crjdriver]

I use both os. Both win2k and xp are stable, in fact I have not been able to make either one crash on this machine. While my personal preference is for win2k, xp does have some nice features such as system restore, networking wizard, and greater hardware compatibility. In addition xp will continue to be supported after support is abandoned for win2k.

[LawyerRon]

I've never used W2K, but I built two P4 machines with XP Pro and they worked awesome. The system restore feature is nice too.

[bailey]

w2k is good, used it for about a year, had to download several drivers for some of my hardware and some programd for the hardware would not load on w2k.

went to xp, had to buy new software for a few programs, but ended up with the best system I have ever had.

I could not emphisise enough if your hardware will support xp, that is the only way to go

[cuffs007]

Hi and welcome to PC Mech

I'm guessing you're using this for home use? If so, then XP Home is a great choice. It has the ability for you to have NTFS, which seems to be a more robust file system. Plus, in XP, you have the simple to use "restore" function, which should make fixing some mistakes easier...

Good luck

[Headcheese]

I like Win2K myself. I am a control freak, though, and Win2k makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside I have yet to see win2K crash. Its not a gamers OS, though. I like having a disk to fix things with too.

i do not see support for win2K going anywhere anytime soon. Its still a widely used corperate network OS (my company just upgraded this weeK)

I have heard, but do not know to be a fact, that XP is a larger draw on system resources. I ran Win2k on a 366MHz AMD K-6 and 256 megs of ram for over a year w/o a single crash. I do not know if I could have done that with XP.