install windows 2000 with preinstalled windows XP in Dell Inspiron. 45

Here we go, another low-tech cretin who can't tell his OS from his butt.

I've likely retrofitted more PC's than you have masturbated to. There was one office where I retrofitted Win2K on some new Dells, while keeping some other new Dells at Xp. Eventually the Xp people asked for theirs to be retrofitted as well after spending some time on the Win2k's. There is large library where I had retrofitted *Windows 95* on the public access PC's some years back, and now they're dreading being forced to "upgrade" to Win2k-Xp because of new library network software. Win95 on an old 866Mhz P3 is un-friggin'-believably fast. A 10Ghz P4 Xp with 4Gb of memory wouldn't touch it. The old 3rd party security apps kept the PC's clean, and they've been running Firefox and Office 97 with little downtime for years. The disk images average are only about 450Mb in size and so it takes only a few minutes to reimage a messed up PC.

Whatever happened to making code tighter and more robust? The virus writers do it with much annoying success, so why can't those overpriced clowns at Microsoft do likewise?

Doubtful. Extremely so.

And if you keep pulling stuff like that out of your butt, you'll only end up with a pile of, well, your postings.

A better question would be, "How come Microsoft or the computer makers didn't put a big label on that warned about how almost unusably slow the PC will be after about a year or so?"

So in other words, Xp is a bigger resource hog than Win2k, therefore it will run slower on the same hardware. You expressed that point, which I of course totally agree with, rather badly I should say.

Silly me, I forgot about the secret menu that will automatically add more memory and speed up your CPU and hard drive with a couple of clicks.

Oh really?:

I think your comments pretty much self-defined your expertise in these matters.

-BC