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Old 03-26-2002, 05:48 AM
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Unhappy ME sucks

Windows ME is the worst operating system ever built. i cant belive microsoft went so low.i guess its called bill gates wants some doh.i guess 85 billion dollars isnt enough to get your kids food these days.:smoker2:
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Old 03-26-2002, 11:39 AM
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I suggest reading some reviews about the OS before buying it...thats how I avoided windows ME
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Old 03-26-2002, 04:35 PM
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Wow, now you realized this? Get 2000 or XP.
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Old 03-27-2002, 02:20 PM
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Wow, now you realized this? Get 2000 or XP.
Word! The general concensus (sic)--no matter who you talk you--is that winME sucks big time! I found out the hard way... it came pre-installed!!
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Old 03-28-2002, 04:12 AM
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Best system ( for me ) is 95 then 98 and then 2000 ( but 2000 needs memory and not good for games ! ) so i'l' go with 98 because i had a k6-II AMD and it wasn't compatible with 95 !

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Win95 is good for older systems (233MHz and less) Windows 2000 for stability, Windows 98 if you absolutely must run those programs or games that wont run on 2K. Don't like XP yet, too many resources used on stupid shit like fancy graphics.
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Old 03-29-2002, 02:31 PM
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I had win2k, but it wasnt compatible with some of my hardware, so I went back to 98se, and I've been happy ever since.
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Old 03-30-2002, 01:47 PM
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Why does ME suck so bad? Can u give me some links on reviews.

I have ME, win2K that I got wasn't to good, don't like XP much, and mom won't let me put win98SE on, she doesn't like "downgrading".
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Old 03-30-2002, 02:11 PM
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So far (for me personally anyways) I have had very few problems with ME. I tried 2000 and was having file sharing problems with a few of my design programs. We even tried doing a dual boot for ME/2000 and that was nothing but a nightmare. Haven't touched XP yet but I heard it uses alot of memory. What problems does ME have for those of you who are having probs with it?
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Old 03-30-2002, 07:01 PM
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I agree with KatWoman.... Im not going to start bashing WinME either. Its kinda plain but isn't really all that bad.

I used it for almost 9 months and I do consider myself a power user. (Recently purchased WinXP Pro through work). WinME handled my day-to-day Visual Basic work, some photoshop, HTML, CGI, ASP, and overall was fairly stable, and I had few complaints.

I will agree tho, that it isnt the best choice for a power user that likes to customize everything. There are alot of things that you cant change, and you just have to learn to live with.
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Old 04-02-2002, 11:16 AM
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Just a thought...could not having lots of RAM be the cause of some of your ME problems? I have three 256M sticks in my computer. Awhile back I ran into trouble with some of my photoshop projects using up all the RAM I had (64M wasn't enough ). Ever since I upgraded I haven't had too many problems. As long as ME is working for me I am sticking to it until it becomes as useful as Windows 3.1 or 95
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What problems does ME have for those of you who are having probs with it?
Countless! Some newer software aren't even compatible with it--most noticebly Flash 5. It dies/freezes daily. It sometime mixes up the icons for file types (ex: HTML files have a JPEG icon). I think this one is caused by DirectX games changing the resolution. It has memory issues, but I have 128 MB, which should be enough for the stuff I run. The Open File feature fails after computer is on for a while. IE fails on the third run, but works again on the fourth, but then not the fifth... I use Mozilla mostly now.

I think the reason WinME is bad/unstable is cuz, IIRC, it was a mixture of winDOS code and winNT code. Sort of the bridge between Win98 and Win2000.

I think the reason ya'll have such bad experiences with Win2000 is because it wasn't pre-installed. So hardware incompatibilty may be an issue. From experience, Win2000 is rock solid. I have yet to have it freeze my system or die out on me like WinME does daily.
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Old 04-02-2002, 03:07 PM
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We have 256mb RAM. I think I just might get XP, even though I hate it. Nah, stick to ME, at least the interface doesn't drive me CRAZY!!!!!
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WinME came pre-installed,no major complaints so far.....can't say I've really used half of my pre-installed software though...
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Just a thought...could not having lots of RAM be the cause of some of your ME problems? I have three 256M sticks in my computer. Awhile back I ran into trouble with some of my photoshop projects using up all the RAM I had (64M wasn't enough ). Ever since I upgraded I haven't had too many problems. As long as ME is working for me I am sticking to it until it becomes as useful as Windows 3.1 or 95
Well i have 512Mb RAM/1400mhz Athlon and i would say on average that out of 5 start ups Me will crash between 1 and 3 times. And no i never switch it off without properly shutting down first (unless it freezes on me, which is actually pretty often) I ran Windows 95 on a 150 processor and a 32Mb RAM for 6 years and never had it crash once, and this new supercomputer (compared with the old one at least) has a crash nearly every day. I get constant pop ups telling me "xxxx has caused an error in xxxx, click here to close xxxx, if the problem persists try restarting you're computer". See, ive seen it that often i know it off by heart
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