Why do you hate ME?

[Locutus of Board]

I can list a few reasons.

It's slow. The backup tools don't work.

I reformatted after a week of trying the piece of junk.

I put 98SE on. I was thinking of 95B.

Unfortunately, I'd most likely have some problems with new hardware.

I wonder how fast a machine would appear with win95 with a 1.33 CPU?

Does anyone have this configuration?

 

[Amused]

I don't hate you, LOB

 

[mrCide]

.. win2k..

 

[VoodooExtreme]

Cuz you post <1000post threads all the time!
















j/k

 

[Yzzim]

It's full of bloatware and unreliable. Win98SE seems to be Microsoft's most stable version in the 9x line.

 

[Static911]

my roommate uses ME and it has one of the slowest bootup i have ever seen in my life

static911

 

[freebee]

And I thought all windows users only use win98se or win2k. The ME version is for scrubs, the masses, the working class, etc.

 

[Scabilian]

I hate all that user friendly crap.. Just give me a &quot;plain jane&quot; OS that I can mess with.

 

[PhaZe]

lol static
me to
I hated winme because it screwed with my DSL
I would get dropped sometimes for no reason.
I switched to win98se and its all better now

 

[rc5]

yeap.

It's slow as hell, buggy, bloated, from Microsoft.

 

[AndyHui]

ME = Moron Edition

or if you are feeling abusive,

ME = Microsloth Excrement

 

[yakko]

I hate ME because it looks like crap, they renamed stuff for no reason(search instead of find), it installed stuff I told it not to during a custom install and was harder to get into DOS. It did format quite easily though.

 

[V]

I hate ME because IE would be unstable like hell. That's why I switched to Win2k

 

[joinT]

cuz you're annoying j/k

 

[Asha'man]

actually, I ran ME this fall and thought that a full install of Win98 2nd edition would be nice for speed and stability. But NOOO I got so many bluescreens in a week that I just thought to hell with you...and I'm back with ME and I like it. I have to reboot once every third day or so, but it boots fast as hell and is stable enough for me with my current setup. If I could, I'd go for win2k but I can't since I have a ViperII graphics card.

Asha'man

 

[AmazonRasta]

Except for the bloated WMP7 included with WinME, I've had only good experiences with it. I hate WMP7, it's constantly freezing up when I try to fast forward in movies or increase the brightness/contrast/etc.

I found loading times (of the OS in particular) decreased - I timed from a cold boot and recorded twenty-one seconds (Athlon 1.0GHz @ 1.2GHz, 192MB RAM @ 133MHz). Games seem to play well, although I didn't notice if I lost any frames or not.

Anyways, that's just my opinion. I liked WinME, except for WMP7. If I could find a way to install WinME without installing WMP7, I'd definitely be running it right now.

 

[VoodooExtreme]

<< Except for the bloated WMP7 included with WinME, I've had only good experiences with it. I hate WMP7, it's constantly freezing up when I try to fast forward in movies or increase the brightness/contrast/etc.

I found loading times (of the OS in particular) decreased - I timed from a cold boot and recorded twenty-one seconds (Athlon 1.0GHz @ 1.2GHz, 192MB RAM @ 133MHz). Games seem to play well, although I didn't notice if I lost any frames or not.

Anyways, that's just my opinion. I liked WinME, except for WMP7. If I could find a way to install WinME without installing WMP7, I'd definitely be running it right now. >>

There are patch-files that can remove WMP7 to the old mediaplayer. You can also do this manually just rename the old mediaplayer to what WMP7 is called (don't remember since I don't run ME more...) but you'll find it in the WMP7 folder.

 

[thebestMAX]

I dont, I just wont use it. Waiting to see if XP will be any better IF it is released in October not August as announced today.

Still running Win98 with all avail downloads from Microsoft and very stable for my uses.

 

[hoihtah]

'cause i have 2000?

 

[Elledan]

Actually, ME doesn't exist: MS never planned to release it. They only wanted to get some more money, thus they fiddled around a bit with Win9x SE, gave it a 'new' interface (ripped from Win2k), added some nice tools (WIMP7), made it 'fool-proof' (fools will always reach a higher level of stupidity, so it's futile), and added the (cursed) System Restore function.

Let's not forget that while Win9x ran or runs stable or reasonable stable on 90% of all systems it's used on, WinMe has already trouble with running reasonable stable on more than 20% of all systems it's installed on.

Conclusion: if WinME runs on your system just stable, that's nice, but it will always stay a POS.

 

[d0ofy]

<< my roommate uses ME and it has one of the slowest bootup i have ever seen in my life

static911 >>



LOL! That doesn't sound right. So your roommate is slow goer huh? j/k

 

[vi edit]

Is it just me or is Windows ME a flaming pile of dog poo?

 

[Fuzzmuncher]

Hey I like me for me. Me is great!

ME is pretty good too. Haven't had any problems with it (knock on wood)

 

[shikhan]

I've been running ME for quite some time. At least on this system and my last two, ME has run faster and more stable. 98 original and SE run about as fast but no where as stable [I'd have to restart about once a day] and I really like win2k except for the startup time. I have a partion all ready to dual 2k but I've been thinking that the only thing that 2k has over ME is security, which I can duplicate close enough for my needs [read: enough for my needs -> I'm not going to have any computer savvy person try to hack into my system]. Considering I've never rebooted this system excpet for two reasons: 1) Installing new drivers/software that require it or 2) Going to be gone for extended periods of time and I was turning off all electrical appliances. Maybe it just likes me but ME beats the hell outta 98/98se/95 and is on par, if not better than 2k for me.

:ons flamesuit::

 

[RISman]

Windows ME is like a service release for 98, which is like a service release for 95, only you pay for it.