"Scott in Baltimore" wrote in message
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NT is old stuff. 2000 works great and XP knows all the hardware.

I wouldn't go that far, I have a 3 button Logitech trackball that I can't
use under XP. I also have an external DVD-RW that when connected kills my
CD-RW.

I've got boxes of old stuff and XP knew what it all was without
needing to find drivers. Of course XP Home ****ed me off when it
wanted to reactive after a week of testing hardware. Too many
changes for it's device hash to match anymore. I went back to
W2K. My XP Pro still thinks it has a valid SN, but home gets
changed with SP2.

My first attempt at installing SP2 resulted in disaster. This was made more
complicated as my wife uses this PC for collage. Needless to say, I had to
pull an all nighter getting it back to a usable state.