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There were third party macros that adjusted what toolbars were available depending on what functions were being attempted. Without that, there were either so many toolbars that the editing window suffered or the toolbars didn't provide the needed function and lots of scrolling through the menus was needed. Something akin to the ribbon was necessary. I found it somewhat pointless adding the ribbon to WordPad and Paint since all the toolbars could find in the width of the application.

Softmaker offers the option to use either Ribbon or earlier menu plus toolbars UI. I prefer the Ribbon for it. Of course, Softmaker does not implement the MS idea of having tiny buttons inside the Quick Access Menu within the window framing. That was a bad idea. The whole point of the Ribbon is to allow buttons with enough pixels to be easily found. Adding a set of buttons that require a magnifying glass to find is going the wrong way.
 
The menus and windows system worked a thousand times better than the ribbon. You'll notice that cading programs like 3d Studio MAX and Maya, which are several orders of magnitude more complex than office programs, never needed a ribbon.
 
Oh another thing about Windows 2000 - it locks up while mounting large volumes (at least over USB). A 2TB hard drive for instance will lock it up for a whole minute or two until it either mounts or indexes it, not sure which. In any case, that doesn’t happen on XP.
 
3lectr1c said:
Oh another thing about Windows 2000 - it locks up while mounting large volumes (at least over USB). A 2TB hard drive for instance will lock it up for a whole minute or two until it either mounts or indexes it, not sure which. In any case, that doesn’t happen on XP.
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I had/have W2K but rarely used it, even at work. We went with NT until XP. Even at home, for one reason or another. I used W98/XP/Vista and so forth. It just never seemed to fit in for me.
 
3lectr1c said:
Oh another thing about Windows 2000 - it locks up while mounting large volumes (at least over USB). A 2TB hard drive for instance will lock it up for a whole minute or two until it either mounts or indexes it, not sure which. In any case, that doesn’t happen on XP.
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That shouldn't happen. 2k would have been dealing with multi-terabyte volumes before XP was even born. What service pack are you running?
 
3lectr1c said:
Oh another thing about Windows 2000 - it locks up while mounting large volumes (at least over USB). A 2TB hard drive for instance will lock it up for a whole minute or two until it either mounts or indexes it, not sure which. In any case, that doesn’t happen on XP.
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I believe it. We had 32MB of RAM and 8GB hard drives at the time though so keep that in mind. If they kept the OS around (it had a very short life sans 2000 Server which is not the same OS as it received tons of updates.) Im sure they would have implemented a fix for large file systems.
 
Agent Orange said:
I had/have W2K but rarely used it, even at work. We went with NT until XP. Even at home, for one reason or another. I used W98/XP/Vista and so forth. It just never seemed to fit in for me.
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I followed Windows 2000 back when it was still Windows NT 5.0 on the MSDN cd's. It was a really groundbreaking and a revolutionary OS. It ran amazingly back on pentium II's at the time.
 
hunterjwizzard said:
That shouldn't happen. 2k would have been dealing with multi-terabyte volumes before XP was even born. What service pack are you running?
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SP4, and it doesn’t just freeze forever. After a couple minutes it resumes and the drive works.
 
Happens on every 2K install I use with every device. 32GB flash drive is only a few seconds, 2TB hard drive is a couple minutes. I can make a demo video if need be.
 
3lectr1c said:
Happens on every 2K install I use with every device. 32GB flash drive is only a few seconds, 2TB hard drive is a couple minutes. I can make a demo video if need be.
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No, another party needs to try this out to determine if the issue is yours alone. Seems completely worth starting a new thread over this.
 
3lectr1c said:
SP4, and it doesn’t just freeze forever. After a couple minutes it resumes and the drive works.
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XP on the 2ghz celery I have can’t handle 100’s of photos on a phone at all , even w/ 1gb of ram.

The way systems handled large external volumes improved on Eindows 7+
 
krebizfan said:
I found it somewhat pointless adding the ribbon to WordPad and Paint since all the toolbars could find in the width of the application.
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I can't really say I agree or disagree since I'm not sure I've used those accessories more than once or twice post-XP myself, but I think that in that video I posted, the presenter from Microsoft said something that agreed with this.
 
VERAULT said:
My idea.. or thougts rather on pentium 4 systems is simple.. leave them on the curb for trash pickup.. and if you have one well put it on the curb . Ya know.. because they are all crap ...

Why do so many of you want to reminisce about such a relatively recent and garbage period in computing. When home computers hit the rock bottom.. What a complete waste of time and effort.
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I have a 2.0 GHz P4 system, and I have fond memories of it. Coming from a Pentium 166 MHz, I called it "BEAST" because using it with Windows 2000 Professional was like flying on an ultrasonic plane. So fast!!
It served me well. It was a work horse.
 
Pepinno said:
I have a 2.0 GHz P4 system, and I have fond memories of it. Coming from a Pentium 166 MHz, I called it "BEAST" because using it with Windows 2000 Professional was like flying on an ultrasonic plane. So fast!!
It served me well. It was a work horse.
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Still doesnt change the fact that it was a steaming pile of excrement....

Brown said:
This forum is dedicated to vintage computers.
Pentium 4, Athlon XP, IMac G4, or higher do not belong here!
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Yeah, Like he said!
 
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