alt Hacker Newsthe drawback for me was the startup time. it really seemed to hang out on the splash screen for quite a while (just as NT4 did, and ofc they were from the same core)
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doublerabbit • today at 6:23 PM
Windows 2000 was the first release of NT5. That's what made it 2000.
Windows ME on the other hand...
Borg3 • today at 6:12 PM
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IIRC, Win2000 would wait for most/all services to complete startup before showing the login UI. XP would allow login as soon as enough of the system was started to support it. The tradeoff is that you might have slow performance from HDD thrashing while everything else finishes starting up.
It's been 20+ years so it's possible I had it wrong then, or remember it wrong now.