Windows ME

mottlee · #1 September 25th, 2003, 09:59 PM

Thoughts on this OS, I might upgrade from 98. A good move??

geoschmo · #2 September 25th, 2003, 10:05 PM

Gawd please don't. Not to ME at least. Skip ME and go to XP, or stick with 98. ME is a serious POS.

[ September 25, 2003, 21:07: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

mottlee · #3 September 25th, 2003, 10:13 PM

Thanks, that is what I heard elseware too

parabolize · #4 September 25th, 2003, 10:27 PM

i downgraded to 98 i hated ME so much.

Loser · #5 September 25th, 2003, 10:37 PM

'Round here they stopped selling ME in the stores. You'd find Win2k, XP Pro, XP Home, and 98. No ME. It's bad.

DavidG · #6 September 25th, 2003, 10:38 PM

ME is an unbelievable piece of crap. I was getting 4 or 5 crashes a day when I had this at work. Usually with MS's own software Outlook express. I can't count the hours I wasted before we finally concluded it was ME and not the new computer. I have XP at work now and it works great (although I suspect for my needs 98 would have been a better choice).

I still have ME at home and although it is not as bad as the work incident it does still crash quite often.

A little research on the net told me that ME suffers from major memory leaks resulting in unpredicatable program behavior and crashes

mottlee · #7 September 26th, 2003, 12:53 AM

Thanks all, was a free bee to me BUT i do not need it to be a pain in the butt

Andr�s · #8 September 26th, 2003, 01:11 AM

I'm using winME in my computer and never had any problem. XP is not an option since my outdated computer doesnt meet its hardware requirements.

Ed Kolis · #9 September 26th, 2003, 02:11 AM

You also might want to upgrade to Windows RG

Thermodyne · #10 September 28th, 2003, 12:01 AM

ME is just very picky about drivers an apps. But it is a little better at some things than SE. Just be sure that you put the new installer package in.