In the beginning I had W98SE on this laptop, then changed to Win ME( Absolute Pants!)
Then last week installed W2K Professional. To date no problems whatsoever.
(BTW in the very beginning it was DOS 3.3 for me, aye those were the days!) Never really took to W3.11, first Windows machine I bought used W95 then upgraded to W98
Hope all okey now on your machine. Havent been to "The Toon" for a long time, I suppose it has changed beyond recognition.