Windows 2000 question.

[Ruut]

Yes, Win2k is the best OS ever made bij M$!

Practically all applications I need for video-editing work perfectly well under W2K. And for the odd exeption I installed Virtual PC 2004, which is available free from M$. Installing WinXP there is simple & reliable. VPC-2004 has a steep learning curve, but once you know how to handle it, it works like a charm. Main advantage: after installing programs and playing around with them and then decide you don't like them afterall: you can always go back.

The best of both worlds!

[JohnnyMalaria]

Win 2K offers a fantastic feature not available in XP: Preview of movies in explorer windows, like OS X for MAC a small Media Player preview appears when you higlight any media clip..Don't try QuickTiime files tho' as this crashes explorer

The reason XP doesn't do this is because Microsoft removed Active Desktop. This was considered a major security risk, so they dropped it.

You can still make folders display movie previews but you have to change a security setting in the registry and add some special system files to the folders you want to display the movie previews. I have it set up like that on my XP laptop.

If anyone is interested, I'll cobble together a guide on how to do it.

[AlecWest]

-Windows Movie Maker

I was just poking around on the AutoPatcher site and noticed that Movie Maker was on a recent update for Win2K Pro. I don't use it that often but it has come in handy on a few occasions.

[winifreid]

I thought Movie maker only worked in XP.

[AlecWest]

I thought Movie maker only worked in XP.

Version 1.2 was an "add-on" in the recent May core update for Win2K Pro SP4.