PocketMatrix

looks like our college has finally upgraded to win2k. the mouse cursor has a shadow and everything! *cough* anyways, are there any 'kewl' tricks i should know?

I only know the normal Windows cheats: Alt+F4 and Ctrl+Alt+Del

hilarious.<br><br>i forgot how much these people annoyed me. nasal-voiced 'ms sux!' etc etc... ugh.

Paul, I'm still using Win98, and until now I didn't see why migrate to Win2000. You used Win98, too? And what do you think of 2000, is it worth the change?<br>1) How is stability?<br>2) Can you customize it as Win98?<br>3) And what about games? Don't know if you will play anything at school, but...<br>4) Did you ever use your PPC with it? Those who have, is the syncing better (less problems of "one sync and then reboot for the second")?

cant answer any of those, only been using it for a few minutes in total - i found out the computing classes pc's are still nt4... bah!

Ctrl-Shift-Esc brings up the task manager, where you can kill off individual tasks, and monitor system resources with the real-time graphs. I keep it minimized on the system tray so I can see how hard my processor is working. The processes list is awesome because you can see exactly which tasks are using up the most resources. It's very useful for finding those hung-tasks that are in an infinite loop hogging up all the resources.<br>To me, the Task Manager reveals just how advanced the NT kernel is compared to 95/98/ME.<br><br>Dan East

BTW, you just made me look at my mouse shadow, which was missing. It got turned off somehow. You get so used to it you don't even know if it's there or not.<br><br>What I think would look extremely cool is if windows cast shadows based off of their Z-Order. That would give the GUI a truly 3D-look.<br><br>Dan East

i'm pretty sure the task manager is disabled but i'll check tomorrow.

Go to for some compatibility lists. Well I think those list aren't always true but they can be useful sometimes.

Hey Any of you guys try windows Xp? I installed it and it was a really big difrence, like you cange users without logging out and the start bar has pictures, and if and of you ever used windows blinds of dashboard. they have that built into it. also it didn't crash as often, but then again it is a bea i was using. the anoying thing is it trys to contact microsoft every 14 days.. And if it dosen't it gets mad.. There was a crack to stop this but still.. I unistalled it cause in the end windows whistler was a huge drain and now i'm back to98 at home but at school I'm 2000.. I just tried the task manager and thats worth geting 2000 al together.. I watch alot of divx tho.. It's great on 98 but on ME or XP Divx sucked. Anyhoo. . *Cough*

you know they cracked it ages before release. if you go to india you can by it for about $5