I'm looking to reformat my laptop and I need to decide between windows 2003 server, windows XP and windows 2000. The laptop is a bit older and I want the best performance I can get from one of these three operating systems. Thanks for your help and opinions 4chan.
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Anonymous2005-08-10 16:46
Go for Windows 2000, unless you really can't get it to work with your hardware for some strange reason. Why? Because out of the good Windowses, it's the least bloated, thus the least resource wasting and the better performer. Besides, simpler systems are better. KISS.
As for security, get a firewall, block all but what you use, get an antivirus - not resident, just run it on every new file you download and every CD/DVD/Flash disk, never ever use MSIE or Outlook Express, have the latest version of Firefox/Mozilla and all you use ready, and don't be a moron and open that kewl Heinecken screensaver Bill Clinton sent you by email to your Hotmail spam account. That way you'll hardly bother even for OS security updates, as you're not doing anything that could expose your system provided TCP/IP is ok.