Slamman Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 I have a 30GB WinME drive I took from an Athlon running Compaq Presario 5000, now moving to my Intel 810 based eMachine 700 eTower. It was also run in my AMD64 mobo which ran with Win98 drivers for the cards, and chipset (rare nVidia 98 ones!!) but it also was inflicted with a minor virus that would try to re-fester itself upon boot ups. I did some manual registry cleaning to get that sorted but it is still freezing up at various stages. I cannot find out what is causing the freezes, which makes troubleshooting a crap shoot. Even in Safe Mode I had it requiring reboots. Now, mind you, I love ME, I use it all the time, it's like a x98 based Windows 2000, with a lot of the MultiMedia perks for MMX CPUs. Windows Media Player 9 and Movie Maker all came bundled with it, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SyphonPayne Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 I have a 30GB WinME drive I took from an Athlon running Compaq Presario 5000, now moving to my Intel 810 based eMachine 700 eTower. It was also run in my AMD64 mobo which ran with Win98 drivers for the cards, and chipset (rare nVidia 98 ones!!) but it also was inflicted with a minor virus that would try to re-fester itself upon boot ups. I did some manual registry cleaning to get that sorted but it is still freezing up at various stages. I cannot find out what is causing the freezes, which makes troubleshooting a crap shoot. Even in Safe Mode I had it requiring reboots. Now, mind you, I love ME, I use it all the time, it's like a x98 based Windows 2000, with a lot of the MultiMedia perks for MMX CPUs. Windows Media Player 9 and Movie Maker all came bundled with it, Umm OK ty4info. PS ME sux, that's why it freezes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnyboy Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 I have computers at my school that still use ME. I never really liked ME, and thanks to the school, I never want to touch it again. It's as slow as 2000, buggy (well for me), and it hates the user. It reminds me a bit of Vista with the partial release thing. I think it is sh*t, but that is my opinion on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingvercetti Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 I've never had the misfortune of using it, but from what I've read it has terrible stability and is probably one of the most temperamental OS' ever released, and according to Wikipedia, even Microsoft acknowledged that nobody likes it. I guess they don't call it Windows Mistake Edition for nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[CTD]LaBan Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 Well it's like "Windows More Errors edition". It had too many blue screens while user is not making any mistakes. I hated that version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garfield 2 Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 ME is sh*t. Even Windows 98 was better than this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abel. Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 I've never had the misfortune of using it, but from what I've read it has terrible stability and is probably one of the most temperamental OS' ever released, and according to Wikipedia, even Microsoft acknowledged that nobody likes it. I guess they don't call it Windows Mistake Edition for nothing. I've never used it either, Window's 98 was fine for myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Girish Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 ME is sh*t. Even Windows 98 was better than this... Way better may I add. I wonder where Windows lost the theme when they went from 98 to ME. After 98, the only stable Windows that comes to my mind is XP SP2. I faced everything from random freezes to frequent crashes to anti-virus issues and what not when using ME. I had to go back to 98 until I found XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beavis Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 Wait? Someone likes ME? I'd rather use 98SE like most people have said. ME was full of bugs and was so unstable. Made M$ richer and caused many people headaches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poopskin Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 Funny, i tried ME in VPC, It didn't crash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abel. Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 (edited) Wait? Someone likes ME? I'd rather use 98SE like most people have said. ME was full of bugs and was so unstable. Made M$ richer and caused many people headaches. Does Windows ME stand for Windows Millenium edition? Back when I had my old PC, I used to play Driver, (the original and the best one) Rollcage, Sonic R and GTA 2 on it. I had NO problems with Windows 98, it was a good OS for the time, pretty quick too. Edited August 20, 2008 by elanman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slamman Posted August 19, 2008 Author Share Posted August 19, 2008 (edited) Yes it does, and to date, I've only encountered a problem with ANY WinME drive I've used that had already been infected online, that can happen with any OS, BTW, or browser, etc. However, I've read, and I think I mentioned this, that WinME works the best pre-installed, or possibly fresh to a new, blank drive, and the UPGRADEs are the ones you want to avoid. I have three copies of Windows 98, only two are SE and the Upgrade version isn't, so it's better for me to use my ME version restore disc and delete the pre-installed programs, most of which are online services that are defunct since Web 2.0! hahaha I was surprised that something like X-Drive, I believe, then offered back in 2000, is still online I believe (off-HDD service for storage, then particular to Windows 95 and 98 and not NT. There are other free storage services now, but was X-Drive one if not THE first remains to be seen. Edited August 29, 2008 by Slamman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cold fusion 33 Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 I've still yet to try ME, but I really want to. I'm fascinated by older OS's and old PC software, I have tried most of the Windows iterations except for this. I want to find out what is so terrible about it for myself . I actually have the install disc, but no CD key, god damnit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poopskin Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Glad to see someone else, coldfusion! i've personally experimented with a lot of older windows versions in VPC (Even some prototypes!), but had to uninstall it due to the fact that it was hogging some...~60 gigs of HD space. oh, and emulators aren't always the real thing, that's why i'd rather have a real Commodore 64 then a emulator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slamman Posted August 23, 2008 Author Share Posted August 23, 2008 (edited) Poops, my man! Are you a WinME kinda guy?!? I had it as my first PC OS, and I have never expected to see the backlash it got, which I only was aware of years after owning it myself. This EVO PC I am on is running Win ME. WinME gives you some rubust 9x OS features, drivers, etc... while stability is in question, mine never crashes it seems. I'd gladly format someone's drive with it if need be, so you'd see how well it CAN work. The best advantage of WinME is the multimedia MMX happy additions, as well as the fact, a 2GB HDD can hold the OS and programs....try that with Win2K and XP...ok, make that XP or Vista! Actually Windows 2000 IS small enough to work on two gigabytes!!! Edited August 29, 2008 by Slamman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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