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Need Win ME Installer

Its likely even if you find the media it won't work with your key. You can't just take any key for ME and use any media. The key if often linked to a certain type of media. For example if its a Dell computer you may need a copy of the Dell ME install disks.
 
When you say "installer," what do you mean? A specific file or the entire ME CD?
 
This thread is interesting. Windows ME was terrible when it was created, and by natural progression, it is epically terrible now. If the thing has ME on it I cant imagibe it being any faster than about a PII/III 466 - 733MHz, possibly as high as 1GHz depending when it was built... with AT MOST 256MB of RAM.

This machine will not be of any use to anyone beyond LIGHT surfing and e mail checking. MAYBE a youtube video if its on the higher end of the above scprocessor spectrum. My suggestion would be to forget the headache of finding Win ME, as you wont be able to install a browser above about IE5.5, which wont be compatible with any plugins to make flash work or anything, among a million other issues.

Get Puppy Linux, or a similar distro of linux that is designed to run on VERY low end machines, it is a very lightweight OS that boots to less than 100MB of RAM used, and includes a fully functional browser (meaning right out of the box you can watch youtube, visit facebook, and not lose any functionality of the sites you are visiting). Ive installed it on a PIII 600 laptop and youtube ran smooth as silk.

So unless you are doing this for some SPECIFIC reason other than general use of the machine (like using some old program or game or something), definitly ditch ME and go with something like Puppy. This will give you the FULL functionality of this machine (light surfing and e mail at most) without the headaches of ME.
 
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Go gettem: http://www.agreatserver.com/cgi/search.pl?S=WINDOWS+ME&C=11226

There are people I know who really like WIN ME. I even have a never opened WIN ME OS package I picked up while helping out at a church sale. I do have a WIN ME installed as one of the alternate boot OSes on my big machine. I rarely use it, but it does come in handy once in a while as it supports certain software apps.
 
I never had a problem with ME. It worked as well as the other DOS Windows. It's problem is it wasn't NT based.
 
ME was a great OS, imo. Had it on my first laptop, worked great.

Paper, you have good points and offer a solution that doesn't cost me $100. Kudos friend. BTW it's 1.2ghz.
However, I'm reinstalling ME so I can sell it. Can't really sell linux machines.
 
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Well, my guess is our experiences were a little different with it. I used it on a white box, one i built. It worked terribly. Drivers were non existent for a long time, or the ones i could find would break, i felt like i was in safe mode more than i was in regular mode.

And I just think you should be donating/recycling that machine my friend, not selling it. At most you would get $30 or $40 and even that seems like it's high. Unless the specs are a lot better than i am imagining. Proc is 1.2... is it celeron or PIII? I assume RAM is PC100 or PC133, how much is there? HDD size?

I have machines that blow that away (Athlon 2600+ at 1.9GHz with 1.5GB of DDR333) sitting around that I wouldn't even consider trying to sell because their specs are so far outdated im afraid id be laughed at. Sorry, I'm just having a difficult time thinking someone would actually buy something pre Pentium 4. With WinME on it no less.

To each their own, and good luck.
 
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At the $40-$50 price range, I'd buy a P4, or high end P3. That's assuming I needed one, which I don't. I have enough old computers/parts, but they're still being utilized :^)
 
lxskllr said:
At the $40-$50 price range, I'd buy a P4, or high end P3. That's assuming I needed one, which I don't. I have enough old computers/parts, but they're still being utilized :^)
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Maybe I should think about actually selling some of the equipment i have then. HA!

I really never thought anyone would buy something thats not at least dual core these days, considering even dual cores are 4+ years old and aging, the machine hes selling is like 10 years old.

I should survey what I have and try to put together some full machines for $50. heh.
 
Depends on your needs. I'm using a P4 2.8ghz as my bedroom computer, and my daughter has a P4 3.06 in her room. They still work good as a secondary machine, or grandmom computer. I wouldn't use ME on it though. While I think ME was somewhat unfairly stigmatized, it's a crappy O/S by any modern standards. Linux is a great choice for old computers. Ubuntu with the full Gnome desktop runs great, and something like Puppy, or SliTaz will make you think it's a C2D :^)
 
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Depends on your needs. I'm using a P4 2.8ghz as my bedroom computer, and my daughter has a P4 3.06 in her room. They still work good as a secondary machine, or grandmom computer. I wouldn't use ME on it though. While I think ME was somewhat unfairly stigmatized, it's a crappy O/S by any modern standards. Linux is a great choice for old computers. Ubuntu with the full Gnome desktop runs great, <b>and something like Puppy, or SliTaz will make you think it's a C2D</b> :^)
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This was precisely my point. I know linux isnt what people are used to, so its hard to sell on a machine, but it will make that computer sing a LOT better than ME ever would. Especially all it can be used for is internet and e mail for the most part, at least Puppy would let that thing slam out some other media as well.

I used a P4 3.4GHz for a LONG time, i only just recently upgraded to a Pentium D 3GHz. LOL. I know all about being a few gens back, and this was even a ways back for me to swallow.
 
Puppy is making me rage, man...

Gparted won't work, just keeps searching forever and never lets me use it.

GRUB can't find anything (yes I installed puppy), told it /dev/sda1, /dev/sda1/puppy520,
/sda1/puppy520, and others. Tried hda1, 0, and 2 just in case.

Puppy is very fast and actually supports my resolution out of the box, but I'm about to use ubuntu because I can't get this stupid thing to work.
 
Another thing to consider is that I think ME has no more security updates so you would be running an insecure OS.
 
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Puppy is making me rage, man...

Gparted won't work, just keeps searching forever and never lets me use it.

GRUB can't find anything (yes I installed puppy), told it /dev/sda1, /dev/sda1/puppy520,
/sda1/puppy520, and others. Tried hda1, 0, and 2 just in case.

Puppy is very fast and actually supports my resolution out of the box, but I'm about to use ubuntu because I can't get this stupid thing to work.
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Ubuntu is another good choice, not QUITE as lightweight as Puppy, but if you have even as much as 512MB in that beast it will work fine.
 
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