Anyone have any good experience with Windows ME?

[CvAgent]

I was wondering if anyone has had winme not constantly crash on them?

Just want some opionions

Thanks

 

[Passions]

helllllllllllz no!

 

[prodigy]

not I

 

[Russ]

WinMe works perfectly if a)Using new hardware, b)You know what you're doing, and c)You're not a gamer.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Bryan]

In other words Russ, as long as you're using your hand built P4 for Notepad, WinME is the bomb.

 

[CvAgent]

Russ- Plan on using it on my system rig "kreed"- see system profile.
To play games : )
I have had some quirky problems with gaming(and only gaming) with win2k- however win2k runs everything else perfect- so this is not a knock against 2k-i also want hybernation mode on the o/s that is why i am not going with win98se

any more thoughts ppl?

 

[Mill]

ME was sucky to me. I am running Win98SE right now. Gonna install Win2k and ME on separate partitions later.

 

[Bryan]

If I were you, I'd dual boot Windows 98SE and Win2k.

 

[Russ]

If you are a gamer, or use 16 bit legacy aps stay with 98SE. WinMe is fine with everything else but, again, you have to actually know what you're doing when you set it up.

Russ, NCNE

 

[CvAgent]

Hmmm...
Gee- I think i know what i am doing(note: the sarcastic tone)

 

[Russ]

CvAgent,

The "you" was not referring specifically to you. It was used in the generic sense. I just get tired of all the horror stories about OS's every time a new one comes out when, in fact, most of those stories come from people who don't make the extra effort to correctly configure the hardware and drivers.

Russ, NCNE

 

[CvAgent]

Yeah I didnt think so...
Anyways thanks for the input so far..
Damn It- I want my new laptop already-
Hopefully only 5 more days...
Freaking Dell...

 

[bonk102]

mine freezes every first time i start it, and every once and awhile on the second, i always have to start my computer up at least once, sometimes 2,3, and even 4 times to get it up and running, damn microsoft!!!

 

[Supradude]

Win ME works just fine here... runs everything i want it too, well except for a few non-supported things, thats why i got my Lan-Box on 98SE, so i can play tetrinet and use Cute MX... ha ha, but most of the mainstream stuff works just fine, very fast, not a huge memory hog like most people say... i never even see a swap file... or feel lag for that matter... pretty good OS, i originally switched cause i was getting hang-ups and stuff on 98se

 

[jgs300z]

hey i am running win me and it works great. I play all kinds of games from quake III arena to giants and sacrifice and of cours diablo. They all work great.

are all you guys and gals running clean install's ie format the harddrive! if you are not you might as well forget the win me then it just does not work right with out a clean install.

the best thing i like about win me is the dual monitor setup works flawless. I can't say the same about win 98 i had more problems than i could say blue screen of death 100 times backwards!

one key note though is don't try in run your mpeg video on your second monitor while surfing the web! freeze the dam machine up everytime! hehehe i know i know what the he!! i am doing surfing the web for while watching a mpeg file (hey i am not really watching it i am just reading the articles). hehehe

p.s. i have a dell cpx laptop too and i am running win me on it and at 30,000 feet i am playing quake III just fine! not sure why you guys are not having luck playing games?

well anyway good luck win me is kick a$$

 

[loudog9999]

Having no dos really makes it hard to work with.

 

[guyver01]

go with ME... after all... you don't have Win2K DataCenter Server

 

[Fardringle]

I agree that having no native DOS mode is a pain, but a handy Win95 or Win98 boot disk easily resolves that problem.

The ONLY problem I have ever had with WinME is when one of my systems got a virus, and the virus somehow got copied into the _RESTORE directory, at which point I had to wipe the entire directory to get rid of the virus.

Other than that, ME is perfectly stable with everything I have tried, including many different games, business apps, entertainment (DVD and MPEG) programs, etc.

After a clean installation of the OS on a freshly formatted hard drive, I've been running happily under ME for quite some time, and the only time it has ever crashed was when I accidentally kicked my case over and knocked the IDE cable out of the socket...

There are obviously problems if so many people have complaints, but I find it funny that everyone who encounters ONE problem automatically declare that ME is crap and completely worthless! (Especially since I've never had a problem with it on any of my personal computers, or on any of the 100+ computers I maintain.)

 

[warcleric]

Hmmm my Laptop has a 3 week uptime with windows me....if that counts for anything.

 

[Emulex]

windows me is a tad bit more reliable than win98, however, its the apps that crash the os, not the other way around.

Win2k just adds more protection from apps crashing the other by disallowing direct hardware io which win98/me allow.

 

[BigSmooth]

I installed ME fresh on my new system, works pretty well for me. The only problems I have are that my system often hangs in IE after coming out of sleep mode (could be a problem with the ACPI settings or even my firewall or virus scanning software, but I am too lazy to look for the problem) and my system won't shut down properly about 1/3 of the time (I get a Windows Protection Fault).

Games seem to work fine for me, I am not a big gamer but I play some of the Black Isle D&D stuff and they work just fine.

 

[yata]

I run on WinMe and have no problems, on Intel chip at stock speed and a Via board. Rock stable. You will risk running into problems if you push your hardware to work more than it's recommended to, ie overclocking cpu, agp, or pci bus. WinMe or not WinMe.

 

[JasonG]

I'm running an "old" BH6 motherboard with an overclocked CII 566@850 and my system is quite stable.

Of course, this was a clean install on a new IBM hard drive.

I wouldn't recommend it for laptops from what I've seen from friends and family who have laptops. I would recommend Win2000 for that.

I run 24/7 and usually it's Netscape (or some other program) that crashes and causes me to reboot. Is that a WinMe problem or a problem with the other program?

I think one problem is that for some of my hardware, there haven't been any new drivers released for WinMe and that causes some problems. Usually though, the Win9x driver works fine for me.

I would be using Win2000 but the internet connection sharing of WinMe is very convenient!

My $0.02

Jason

 

[Thump553]

I had a good experience with WinME-it uninstalled easily without leaving any adverse residues of itself. Stick with Win98SE, its far better, or go to Win2k.

 

[Azraele]

I haven't met an MS OS yet that's not buggy at some point.