[Discussion] Winblows Tax Programs

[Douglas Clark]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:11:46 -0500, John Kozacik wrote:

>The impression I got was that 2000 was smaller and a bit less fat than XP and
>quite a step up from NT on which it is based.

If you are simply looking for something to run Win32 programs under VirtualPC, WinNT 
is smaller than Win2000, or WinXP or Vista. The advantages are:

1) uses less memory,
2) boots up faster.

The disadvantages (ok - I don't have time to list them all, but here are a few)

1) some newer Windows software will not run on WinNT, especially the software that 
requires digital security stuff, e.g. iTunes.


If you are running under VirtualPC and NOT using Windows to access the internet, I 
would think that virus problems will be minimal.

I have both WinNT and Win2K installed under VirtualPC. I use WinNT for everything 
that does not require Win2K.

Thanks

Douglas Clark