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              <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E"><img src="../../images/icons/mouth_final.jpg" width="192" height="236" align="left"><loonystart>Vol. 
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                lucky &#150; almost all of my hardware was perfectly compatible 
                with Win 2k. You&#146;ll note I said almost. Don&#146;t be surprised 
                if that happens to you as well...so much hardware isn&#146;t Windows 
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                &#150; it tells me when my drives are too fragmented, it protects 
                me from viruses, all around, it&#146;s just a really useful product. 
                But sadly, it ain&#146;t ready for Win 2k. And even worse, Symantec 
                doesn&#146;t offer a version of most of the utilities that will 
                work. They have an NT version of Norton AntiVirus (possibly the 
                most important of the various utilities in SystemWorks) but you 
                can&#146;t just download an upgrade to the Windows 9x version 
                &#150; you have to buy an entirely new product. So begrudgingly, 
                I bought Norton AntiVirus &#150; again. </font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Now that 
                I had decided to purchase Windows 2000, I had to actually buy 
                the damn thing. There are a few different versions you can buy: 
                Windows 2000 Professional (for workstations), Windows 2000 Server 
                (for well...network servers) and Windows 2000 Advanced Server 
                (for large network servers). And of course, all of these are offered 
                in both standalone and upgrade packages. Despite the fact that 
                the upgrade is about $100 cheaper, I decided to purchase the full 
                Windows 2000 Professional package. While you get a nice break 
                on the upgrade version, that means you have to have an OS pre-installed 
                before you can add Windows 2000. For the most stability, you&#146;re 
                better off reformatting your hard drive and doing a clean install. 
                And while I&#146;m using it as a server for some things on my 
                network, paying $900 for a five-user license just didn&#146;t 
                make any sense for me.</font></p>
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                lately. Instead of a comprehensive instruction manual/reference 
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                a slightly larger &#147;getting started&#148; book. Now, maybe 
                I&#146;ve gotten spoiled by the huge tomes included with Macromedia 
                and Adobe programs, but I can&#146;t tell you how useful those 
                phonebooks can be. The help system in Windows 2000 is basically 
                the next evolution of the HTML help in Windows 98, and it works 
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