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Why Win ME??? over WIN 98 Its a resource hog?

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Tyros

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I have read afew articles on MS new windows upgrade Win ME and I also saw it first hand that win ME is a resource hog. On a PC running with 128mb of ram and maybe 2 or 3 programs open, the OS only had 43% available resources. Now what sense is having a OS that makes you start with 256mb of ram just to have decent available resources?
 
I did a similiar post and found that it uses a considerable amount of physical ram to run QIII. I guess my question is, has anyone found a tweak to prevent WINME from using a lot of resources and ram?
 
Here is another issue I have with it:

My start menu now has arrows pointing to where the rest of my programs are. For example if I go to "Accessories" on my start menu than just below the "Calaculator" I get a "triple" arrow showing that there are more programs on that start menu. How do you turn that off?

I have a feeling my daughter or her friends "dorked" with my computer because I secured her internet access. Like a good dad should. 🙂
 
I've only been running WinME for about a week now but I havent noticed it using much more resources than 98SE. But I have 320MB RAM in my system so I wouldnt expect a 9X kernel to use that much.

Only problem i have with it is the "hiding" of DOS is extremely annoying.
 
subsailor: The lame arrow you speak of is the "Personalized Menu" that MS thinks everyone wants. Umm.. whatever.

Office 2k does it as well, but go to your folder options or maybe taskbar settings on your start menu - control panel. Anyway, just uncheck anything that says personalized menus.

As for resources, if you turn off the System Restore, I hear that frees up a lot of resources. If someone could post how to, I'd appreciate it. I can't remember how to do it and I don't use ME enough to care to try 🙂
 
Yeah by turning off system restore you increse system resources dramatically. Then again on a fast system with lots of ram it wouldn't matter much anyway.
goto sytem properties in the control panel
click the performance tab and then goto file system
under the troubleshooting tab make sure disable system restore is checked.
 
With windows me you give up resource for better driver support. I dont think Microsoft will ever get it right! I guess you can't have your cake and eat it too!
 
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