Win 2000 Pro - tools for hard to find

[Jenny]

Read your "Removing Malware "- excellent.  Also your list of free software
(i.e. AVG , which I'm looking for.  Problem:  Constantly wherever I click,
even when following a Microsoft report#.....  it seems about 90% of software is listed as compatible with XP or Vista.    Have explored Microsoft
Help alone many times and this is still true.  Are many of the softwares
also compatible with Win2000 but it just isn't being said?

(Trying to fix problem with no fix: "....not a valid Win32 document

Thanks

[evilfantasy]

Which softwares are saying this?

Everything in the malware removal guide should work with Windows 2000. If all of them are saying this then it isn't your version of Windows, it is the malware that is blocking the installs.

[ChrisXPPro]

If I remember right - pretty much everything 32 bit should be OK with Win 2k .... in fact I did run some 16 bit now I think on it when I ran 2k, but any supposed XP 32 bit app should be fine in 2k.

Open to correction here but - wasn't 2k based on the NT4 kernel.

[evilfantasy]

Open to correction here but - wasn't 2k based on the NT4 kernel

Pretty sure your right. There are a few applications that are coming out recently that won't work with Win 2000 (Google Chrome) but everything we use here should work fine.

[Jenny]

Re:  "which softwares are saying this:  "

AVG - in the link you provided,  when clicked on says:  for "XP and Vista"

The second half of my initial response was the idea that Microsoft isn't interested in servicing older  editions - so they may just be leaving out
the info that 2K Pro could handle it  O.K. -- as well as XP and Vista.

[evilfantasy]

AVG may heve phased out 2000. Not sure as I stopped using it. Too much of a headache. I would suggest using Avira or Avast.

MS is still supporting Win 2000 for a few more years I think. Other companies, especially free software companies will be moving away from supporting it sooner or later. It costs them extra money to maintain multiple versions.