Normally I would think about doing this, but I'm considering downgrading my in-laws PC from Win2K to Win98.
Here's why:
It's a PIII 866 with 128MB of Rambus RAM. I would upgrade it to 256 or more except for the fact that it's pretty expensive I (and especially my in-laws) can't justify spending that much money for it.
In 2K the machine runs fairly well for light stuff, but lately, if you have more than a couple light apps open, it get pretty bogged down. Some of this might have to do with the antivirus software and the latest MS patches I installed (which I heard degrades performance).
Also, my father-in-law is still using his DOS-based music arrangement software on his 486 (he's pretty stubborn). We are looking to get rid of that machine and migrate him to the more modern box. We are hoping to get him to use Finale on Windows (what my wife uses to arange music) and also allow him to run and print from his DOS stuff when he needs to.
Once we move, it will pretty much be just my father-in-law using his music stuff and my mother-in-law using it for web, email, and card games. The turn it off when they are done for the day, so rebooting won't be a problem.
What do you think I should do?
Here's why:
It's a PIII 866 with 128MB of Rambus RAM. I would upgrade it to 256 or more except for the fact that it's pretty expensive I (and especially my in-laws) can't justify spending that much money for it.
In 2K the machine runs fairly well for light stuff, but lately, if you have more than a couple light apps open, it get pretty bogged down. Some of this might have to do with the antivirus software and the latest MS patches I installed (which I heard degrades performance).
Also, my father-in-law is still using his DOS-based music arrangement software on his 486 (he's pretty stubborn). We are looking to get rid of that machine and migrate him to the more modern box. We are hoping to get him to use Finale on Windows (what my wife uses to arange music) and also allow him to run and print from his DOS stuff when he needs to.
Once we move, it will pretty much be just my father-in-law using his music stuff and my mother-in-law using it for web, email, and card games. The turn it off when they are done for the day, so rebooting won't be a problem.
What do you think I should do?