My Windows 11 installation broke down after one of the updates. Now I get "Please reinstall Windows" warning in Windows Update settings. And some error hex code which doesn't really help. I've installed like 5 different apps on this machine and never ran any "tweaking" scripts or apps.

I don't think I ever had to reinstall Windows 2000 but here we are.

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VirgilShelton 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah Windows 2000 had countless software test engineers, I was one of them and on my team there were 5000 of us. I stared in tech support in 97 and moved into QA and always filed bugs on behalf of the customer, sadly everyone must code and customers must test. It's just not working out but Microsoft really only cares about Corporate America and Windows running on all the main languages. It's great to have alternatives and I've moved to MacOS after using Windows since 1.0.

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duffyjp 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Thank you for your service. :D Windows 2000 will always be my favorite version. I got a free copy as a university student and it was just awesome. XP was the era where things changed for the sake of change. In Windows 2000 you could learn where absolutely everything was and it was always there for you.

I still have my install CD, though it has suffered from bit-rot and can't be read properly. :(

	▲	VirgilShelton 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ha! You're very welcome! Ah the good ol' days of CD install media, CD Keys and install times that took hours! RIP to your install CD!

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72deluxe 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think the UI was reasonable and easily understood in 2000. After that it seems links and buttons became interchangeable, and now we end up in the mess where scrollbars may or may not be visible until you try fiddling with the UI etc.