Re: Windows 2000

["John Taylor" <john.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just to weigh in with my own experiences; I have W2K running on a number of different workstations. The typical configuration is a Celeron 400Mhz with 128MB RAM, running Client Access Express and Lotus Smartsuite. The OS has proven to be rock solid on all of them - a huge improvement from the Win9x/NT predecessors.

 

My own machine is the only one that runs WDT on W2K. Although I have occasional problems with WDT itself, none of them have crashed the OS yet. This machine is a Pentium III 550Mhz with 256MB Ram. The workload is fairly constant, and includes the following applications opened concurrently:

 

- CA/Express with 7 terminal sessions

- Ops Nav

- Code Project Organizer

- Code Editor (avg 4 files open at a time)

- Code Designer

- Visualage Java 3.5

- Surveyor (awesome Java based AS/400 DB utility)

- Outlook 2000

- InoculateIT Virus scanner

 

Although I use other applications such as Visio, Office, Smartsuite etc., as required, the ones mentioned above are _always_ active. With 256MB of RAM, performance is actually pretty good.

 

The only time I've seen W2K blue screen, or lock-up, has been due to hardware incompatibilities. In one case, it was my Adaptec SCSI card, and in another, it was the internal ZIP drive. The ZIP drive problem was solved by a patch from Iomega. The Adaptec problem required purchasing different CD burning software, since Adaptec stated that they would not support W2K.

 

A couple of things that I always look for on a troublesome machine, is an installation of RealPlayer, or anything by Symantec - especially the virus scanner. RealPlayer has got to be one of the worst pieces of software available - it is horribly buggy, and causes all kinds of problems on the machines that I've seen. Symantec is only slightly better. If you're running either of those products, trying removing them for a while to see if the situation improves.

 

 

John Taylor

Canada

 

----- Original Message -----

From: muellerg@brick.net

To: CODE400-L@midrange.com

Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 11:07

Subject: RE: Windows 2000

Thanks for the replies.

"I have been using WDT on Windows 2000 since November and everything has been working great.  We do have machines with 512 MB of RAM so I'm sure that helps also."--Scott

This seems to be the opinion that I have been finding about Windows 2000.

I am running Windows 2000 SP1, Webshere Development V4R5M1, and 125 MB of RAM.  I spend way too much time with my reset button.  I can't seem to determine where the problem is, software or hardware?

Diane