Functionality of Windows 2000 Professional without NIC card

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From: Potter (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:51:09 -0800

As I no longer need networking, and could use a USB 2.0 card, I'd like to take the NIC card out and use the slot for the USB 2.0 card. (There are no more slots, so just adding the USB 2.0 card isn't an option.) Has anyone done this? What functions of Windows 2000 Professional are lost? As I said, I no longer care about networking, but will I lose other important/useful functions? Would it be better to get another operating system?