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I'm about to step into the world of Windows ME....

but it will be temporary. I just wanna try it out. my win98 setup right now is getting kinda retarded and it is not working with my new usb dsl modem. sooo, this ME should last me for a month or two, before i upgrade to the 1 gig duron.

sub 30 second start up times here i come!
 
I wish you luck..
Do you have a backup copy of Win98 or Win2k ready?
You'll need it when you find out ME is crap.

Gatsby - 877
 
Watch your step you might fall flat on your face.😉

go ahead & try it,within a week you'll be back on win98se.
 
Sir, please put down the CD.
Put the WinME CD on the table and back away slowly, that CD is very very dangerous to your health (Stress can cause serious health problems, and there is little in life more stressful than computers with WinME), and to your system, both software wise (just becuase WinME sucks) and hardware wise (you are liable to start damaging things when the stress levels get to high).
I repeat sir, please put down the CD and back away slowly.
 
Hey all,

I'm using WinME <begin flaming> and it works uite well!

I agree it has less than stellar Hardware support (and for a newer version of Win98, that is hard to believe, but true) however;
  1. The TCP/IP stack was upgraded and tweaked by MS and is a boatload faster than Win98 or Win98Se or even Win2k.
  2. Boot up is faster.
  3. More tweakable for the layman.
  4. Very cool Movie maker if ya got a Scanner or Digicam.
  5. Better USB and upgraded PnP support.
And NO I don't work for MS....I despise them like the rest of us here...I just wanna say it ain't half bad!!

That's all folks...


Edblor </flaming>
 
i hate winme...i put it on my computer twice because i couldn't decide if i wanted that or 98se. then i decided to use win2k...and it is SOOOO MUCH BETTER than the rest of them
 
lmao. bigZ, you hit a bullseye with that zinger
-where's my dos prompt
-what the hell's eating up my resources
-why is it always hanging at shutdown
-oh my god.. not another active desktop recovery!!

These are just a few of the ME catchphrases
 
I guess you need to be a stoner to appreciate the crappiness of Windows ME. The utter filth is nothing more then a steaming pile of ones and zeros. Its like they decided to feed Windows 98 tons of lard until it vomited all over itself.
 
I've had WinME for several months already under the rationale that Win2K doesn't support games as well. Now it will finally be toast this weekend when I put Win2K on. The new CD burner I bought was the final straw... it made coasters in my WinME machine and burned perfectly in my Win2K machine... good bye WinME!!! 😀
 
I have heard many horror stories about Windows ME, but I too have to put in a positive vote for this one. I ran Win98SE for about a year, and I only ran it that long because I lost my Win95 cd. Win98 is by far the most unstable, unfriendly, buggy OS I have ever seen! ME, on the other hand, has never given me a problem of ANY kind in the 6 months or so I have had it installed on my 3 machines, and in fact my main system has been running without a reboot for nearly 3 weeks, and that's with it being used quite regularly for Internet and games... (And I only rebooted it 3 weeks ago because the power went out. 😛)
 
I'm right on the cusp myself. I have a copy of Win 2000 here, but am wondering if I'll be kicking myself later because it won't support all the games/applications I want to play with.

Anyone out there wanna give W2K a vote as a decent gaming platform??

 
My parents use Windows ME on their machine (Celeron in my System Rig page) with no problems. I did have it installed on my Athlon machine but after a couple months I got random errors, had to reboot all the time. Went to Windows 2000 Pro and couldn't be anymore happy. No crashes, etc... WHOOHOOOOO Win2k is the best version of Windows I have ever used. 😀
 
I've gone through a cycle of Win98SE --> WinME -->Win2K Pro and then back to Win98SE. WinME sucks, pure and simple. Win2K rocks. However, I gradually found that there are too many different programs I need to run that aren't compatible with it. I went the dual boot route for awhile but that just seemed to be more trouble than it was worth. So, I'm back to Win98SE, for now at least.
 
I hope you don't have a winmodem. I had a 3com 56k winmodem that wouldn't work with win ME at all. No specific drivers written for it and no generic drivers would work as well. 3com support simply stated that it wasn't supported. So much for plug and play. It worked fine under 95, 98, NT and 2000 beta. It does boot 10 times faster and shuts down very fast. However, I get iexplore errors all the time now, even service packed IE and ME to no avail. Kind of hard to uninstall something (IE) when it is incorporated in the operating system. I would say stick with 98 or go with 2000.
 
If you guys hate WinME so much you're going to really hate Windows XP because it's going to have just as much &quot;bloat&quot; and user friendliness as WinME.
 
An OS install - whether clean or upgrade - is what you make of it.

I have done thousands of installs, and troublehooting and support for those installs. Every OS that MS has put out has had good and bad points, but it does take some being your own &quot;admin&quot; to make it what it is - with stability and compatibility being the key.

I have had buggy installs with all of them - making things right is more of how much detective work you may be willing to undertake.

WinME has been fine for me for the most part - I have done everything from going DOS/Win3.x straight to ME and installing all of the upgrades one by one (Win3.x, 95, 98, 98SE, ME - even up to 2K with some testing) and running the upgrades. Very little hassle at all. Most pains come from hardware ability/compatibility (usually driver/resource). Bloat is also an issue, but it doesn't prevent you from doing your day-to-day - more of an issue of how much of that 20-80 gig drive you are willing to devote to let the OS have.

Go with ME, you should not have any issues.

BTW - I DON'T Work for MS, never have, never will.

Win2K Rules!!!!
 
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