Windows Me

[sgtpepper06]

What are your opinions on Windows Me? Personally I never had any problems with Me, however many people say that it just kept on crashing for them. I just got a new rig, and I was wondering, should i upgrade to Xp Home, or should I stick with Me? On my computer I will mainly play games, do school work, and program.

 

[uhohibrokeit]

ive found ME to be seriously lacking when you leave the ocmputer running for extended times... if you reboot, or shut off the computer daily, its usually pretty good.

the only Windows OS ill run is Windows 2000.... its a nice OS, very stable, and i mainly only use it for games

 

[sgtpepper06]

Good point, what is the price range of Windows 2000? What do other people think about Windows 2000 vs Windows XP?

 

[Spikesoldier]

<< ive found ME to be seriously lacking when you leave the ocmputer running for extended times... if you reboot, or shut off the computer daily, its usually pretty good.

the only Windows OS ill run is Windows 2000.... its a nice OS, very stable, and i mainly only use it for games >>




How can you play under the terrible mouse lag? Have you played UT or Max Payne under W2K?

 

[uhohibrokeit]

max payne.. no.. but UT works fine... what mouse lag are you talking about?

 

[Dill]

mouse lag in Win2k? wha? Never encountered that problem.

 

[uhohibrokeit]

possibly a mouse driver issue... with a microsoft 2 button scroll mouse, a logitech stupid bump feely mouse thing, a microsoft explorer mouse, and my favorite logitech trackman marble... i have no mouse problems at all with Win2K

 

[sml]

ME is a great consumer OS. I recently built a machine for my girlfriend, who wanted something to write papers on for school, read her e-mail and bug me via AIM 🙂 got her set up on an old PII 266 w/ 128MB of RAM. Installed ME, stripped out a lot of the gunk, configured it nicely with IE6 + OE6 and AVG for anti-virus software, grabbed an Office 2000 license and threw it on there, nothing to it. Of course, she isn't going to be using the machine for gaming or programming, as you are asking about. I'd recommend XP for your needs, just because of the more robust features the OS has to offer [NT-based kernel, real task management, etc].

 

[corkyg]

I ran ME on three computers fro about a year and had almost zero crashes or lockups. I upgraded to XP Pro on the same systems from those rock solid ME installations and they are even better. But . . . stability is achievable . . . even with Win98. It takes a lot of maintenance and discipline in system and file management as well as registry control.

But the hooker that would eliminate many folks here is that one of the keys to stability is NO GAMES! 😀