nintendomaniac64

But then that'd just be a banning, not a deletion of account.

but don't they get pruned after some 30 days of inactivity?

Well, seeing that I unfortunately was in rant mode when I made my previous topic, resulting in looking like a complete n00b, and that my question was answered (the reason I registered in the first place), I'm looking for a way to delete or remove my user account. Now I'm not talking banning, because that wouldn't allow me to re-register under this name in the future if I ever wanted to, such as if I actually DO compile a version of paint.NET 3 that runs on Win2K. So yeah... how can I delete my account? Or does a mod/admin need to do it... which would be the exact people that aren't exactly happy with me... >_>;

First off, don't close this topic just because it's asking about support for an older OS. THAT'S NOT THE POINT OF THIS TOPIC. But, if the reason for not allowing 2K to run paint.net IS because it's an older OS and not supported by Microsoft... Then apparently you aren't including extended support as support, because 2k pro will be under "Extended support" until 2010. Anyway, the point is, why is it that paint.net will not RUN on Win2k SP4? What prevents it? As far as I know, Win2K and XP run applications pretty much the exact same way, seeing that XP is basically a graphical and more user-friendly version of 2000 pro. (also with a few extra backwards compatibility features, and has... um *cough*memoryhogging*cough* features) In fact Command & Conquerer 3 has a simple Win2K patch that edits about only 8 lines of code that allows it to run on Win2K, yet the game is supposed to only run on WinXP. I heard someone say that it was to take advantage of .NET 2.0. I'm running that right now, and if I wasn't, I wouldn't be able to run some apps. (too bad I forget which ones >_>) In fact I even have .NET 2.0 on Win98SE O_o Also it can't be .NET 3.0 because that's just 2.0 with Vista support. So really, why not just allow installation on Win2K instead of preventing it, and maybe just have a message saying something like "Windows 2000 SP4 support is UNTESTED, use at your own risk." Unless there really IS something that only works in XP SP2 and not 2K SP4. I'm just looking for clarification. Every time there's a "why no support" topic, it's normally about why support was dropped. I'm just asking why the program actually won't work. I hope you understand and don't just lock this topic saying "this has come up many times and has been answered before" BECAUSE IT HASN'T. I searched for 2000 in this forum, clicked every topic result before the 3.0 release, and found no answers...though I could just be really blind, which then I deserve a banning for my pure stupidity. >_<;