There's something uncanny about this. I think it's the lack of clicks caused by a mechanical hard drive that I'm so accustomed to when things are loading in an old OS.
It seems to run relatively smoothly, but what's keeping it from running lag-free? Opening up "My Computer" takes 3-4 seconds. Why doesn't it open instantly?
You must be kidding, right? W2k had a very long startup time by today's standards, but after that the basic utilities felt very snappy, just like most software of the pre-web era:
Why would I be kidding about any Windows installation I ever used? I was on a computer with a CPU measured in the low hundreds of megahertz and RAM measured in the low hundreds of megabytes. It was paging like crazy trying to do anything non-trivial.
Perhaps, judging by the downvotes of the grandparent comment some folks thought I was casting aspersions on Windows 2000 itself.
I just kicked Solitaire's ass for the first time in at least 15 years. I couldn't remember the rules but my hands took over and it was like I was killing time at my moribund old job all over again.
