install Windows ME
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I always found ME worked quite well when it was properly setup and I have even had computers that have run ME for over a year with out any problems..while it isn't as good as Win98se(I always liked to have some form of DOS support back in the OLD days)Its still a good OS..you just have to know how to set it up correctly
lol WIN ME. My favorite OS. Why you ask? Because that is the one OS that actually made me want to go outside and work than to sit on my computer all day like a super geek. LOL
eh, you can partition/format during setup, iirc. if not, you can boot the cd and not run setup and just run fdisk.
Again ppl, if this person isn't willing to buy 2k/xp and don't pirate it, I would pat them on the back. And I don't like ME too much, but it's not too bad as the 9x's go. No MS operating system is "the picture of stability and reliability".
Apparently you have some special windows ME setup trick that only you know because the rest of the planet thinks windows ME sucks. My wife has a computer that started out with Windows ME on it and was always crashing so I wiped the hard drive clean and did a fresh install. Same thing. All sorts of random crashes and lockups. Funny thing happened when I installed Windows XP on the exact same computer. No more problems.
I have heard of the problems that ME had, but i have never experienced them, I found it to be a good OS..a bit sluggish compared to earlier Windows but still nice and pleasant, very reliable, I've had more problems with WinXP than I ever did with ME..Maybe I'm just lucky..I guess..come to think of it I even Liked Win95BOSR2, I thought that OS worked well for me
I also was happy with ME. The only real problem I had was that I ended up formatting and reinstalling everything about once a year, which in retrospect had more to do with what I was doing with my computer than the operating system. It took me quite some time to switch over to XP, course if it hadn't cost me $100 for the upgrade I probably would have done it sooner.
I liked win95b osr2 and win 98se but I never had anything but trouble with windows me. I'm pretty happy with windows xp. It's been pretty stable for me.
Windows 9X/ME are dead. Sure, if this is a slow old system, pat this guy on the back. But nobody should be installing POS Windows 9X/ME to run applications produced in the last three years on a failry modern PC!! If someone has the money to have halfway decent hardware and run progarms produced in the last three years, they have the money to buy XP and they don't have to pirate it.
Get with the times. It is already past the halfway point of 2005. I mean think about it. Should two distinctly different operating kernels made by the same company continued to be supported this long?? The quality and performance of applications has probably suffered because of cross platform support where as they would have probbaly been much more stable and better performing the last three years if all games and applications were native Windows 2000/XP only and ditched support for POS Windows 98/ME. That's just fricken sad.
Get with the times. It is already past the halfway point of 2005. I mean think about it. Should two distinctly different operating kernels made by the same company continued to be supported this long?? The quality and performance of applications has probably suffered because of cross platform support where as they would have probbaly been much more stable and better performing the last three years if all games and applications were native Windows 2000/XP only and ditched support for POS Windows 98/ME. That's just fricken sad.
Originally posted by: Fern
Hahahah Hey Link!
This outta piss you offI installed 98se on a brand spanking new a64 system last week. Damn is it fast!! no kidding.
I still use winME on one of my other rigs. I haven't had a problems with it either.
Fern
You should be running the OS listed in your signature on that brand new Athlon 64 system!! Too embarrassed to list Windows 98SE in your signature for the specs of even that halfway good Mobile XP 2600 system.
I'd be embarrassed to list a POS OS in my signature if that's what I was running on my system. Just admit it, that's the only reason you list Windows 2K Pro as your OS for that rig even though you run it along side 98SE. It's only a matter of time before that POS OS breaks on itself. Try installing it on an SLI rig with an Athlon 64 dual core CPU. It wouldn't even work!! 
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ME blew goat nuts when it first came out, but remember guys, this was in the days before that whole "Windows Update" thing caught on. A fully updated and patched installation of Windows ME isn't horrible at all. I wouldn't recommended it as a general operating system, but if you want to run, say, DOS software without going through the hassle of DosBox or something else it may be what you need.
True, if all you need to do is run old DOS software. But trash Windows 9X/ME all together for multi tasking and running 32-bit applications!!
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