Installation is very simple. This operating system is gargantuan, consuming 750 megabytes. Upgrading from another Microsoft OS was almost perfect, although, in one instance, some fiddling was necessary to properly set up a network card. Playing nice with other Microsoft platforms turns out to be better in theory than in practice. Installing legacy software is usually, but not always, problem-free with Windows 2000.
Help is presented in a familiar, Web-like, interface.
Topics and search tools are presented in one window while text is presented in a second window. One can browse viewed topics back and forth, although under certain circumstances the viewed list resets and going back is no longer possible. This is a major annoyance and reeks of bad planning. Microsoft recommends 64 MB of random access memory on a Pentium 133 or better processor to use Windows 2000. It will run with 32 MB but multiple root canals are faster and less painful.