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Hello Bob - 

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>> Now that I have cleaned up my W2K install it never crashes
>> here (many months now). I've only had the machine and OS for
>> about 6 months but it seems to remain stable all of the time
>> even when apps lockup and I have to invoke task manager to
>> 'kill' them. 

BS> My experience as well... I have found, however, that if you
BS> really long for the instability of Win9x, you can partially
BS> achieve your goal by installing Win2k with a FAT32 file
BS> system rather than NTFS. 

At present I have both. The W2K is installed onto an NTFSv5
formatted partition but I also have a FAT32 partition the same
size that W2K uses for data etc.  The FAT32 partition is also
a 'multi-boot' that I can use to boot to DOS.

BS> It's still better than Win9x, but the Fat32 does render the
BS> machine much slower and noticeably less stable. 

I have heard that it's slower but haven't tried putting the W2K
onto FAT32 yet. 

BS> It makes me wonder how many of Win9x's problems might have
BS> had to do with a poorly designed file system... 

The move to LFNs and accomodating larger hard drives for FAT16
to FAT32 seems to have been rushed and works like an addon or
patch to the original FAT16. 

"Longhorn" will introduce yet another format for Windows OS and
we will all see how well they can implement that one? 

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