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Just a bit of ol skool fun, ME could be good when tweaked but the default OS is a pile of... and 98SE was light years better.
Heres some names i've heard, add to it if you've got some :D
Windows Migraine Edition
Windows Mistake Edition
Windows Miserable Edition
Windows Multiple Errors
Windows Malfunction Edition
Windows Messy Excretement
Windows Major Enema
Windows Major Earthquake
Windows Moody Edition
Windows Major Epilipsy
Windows Mullered Edition
Windows Minging Edition
Do we really need a thread to slam on a product that's 7 years old? I mean...I had ME on my old 450... Jeez. That was 2 Gigahertz ago.
Digoy, I think you might need upgrading eh, or are you a newfie?
Lol...what pray tell does a Newfie upgrade too.... :D besides Digoy is from Manitoba, only Mooses out there, not even "New_found_landers" would move there....jk Digoy, just had visions of Newfs trying to upgrade...... :DQuote:
Digoy, I think you might need upgrading eh, or are you a newfie?
Newfie upgrade - dating one's cousin instead of one's sister, or using actual fishing nets instead of mum's stockings.
Newfie computer upgrade - AppleIIc !
for some reason this reminded me of one of my favorite windows joke images.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ows-cement.jpg
/too bad we can't use [img] here :-/
Howdy.
Wasn't that apple called Lisa.?Quote:
Newfie computer upgrade - AppleIIc !
and inside the casin's were the autographs of the people whom invented/created it. well on the original one's there were those autographs on the inside of the casing's.
f2b
Blah, WinME was a headache and a mistake, IMO.. but yeah, I think slamming something 7 years old in any case is a no-no.. :D
Windows ME is a great operating system marketed by a shower of shysters. I still run it on several machines and support it on many more.
If you want a serious discussion on the subject, then fine, ask gore if you can bring the topic into his operating systems forum.
I ask myself what do you really know about hardware and software and the all important relationship between the two?
I will give you a clue:
1. Any old MoBo
2. Any processor, although a PII/233 or better would be preferable (I have run it on a 486!.....and know the hack!)
3. Give it between 384 and 512 of RAM (PC 100 or 133 is better than the 72 pin EDO RAM)
And way you go. But REMEMBER turn the damn machine off when you have finished using it ;)
:rolleyes:
fair point, Win 98 is a pain when you've just installed it. Before you can do anything you need to install some NIC drivers, which won't fit on a floppy, so you copy some onto your USB disk. But then you need a driver for the USB disk to be recognised, etc etc.
ME looked nicer too, but what I found frustrating with it was its penchant for blue screens and memory leaks.
Yes. Windows ME can be a bit tempramental, and does suffer from memory leaks. However that seemed to be a Microsoft problem of the day as Windows NT 4.0 had the same problem with memory leaks.
ME was badly marketed as being a prettier and more featured version of Win98SE. Actually it needs rather a lot of memory in comparison to Win98SE and NT 4.0. If you give it 384~512Mb of RAM it is actually very stable.
People got it to upgrade Win98 machines and did not realise that they really needed to upgrade their RAM as well :(
Also, most manufacturers of the day shipped with only 128Mb of RAM which really is not enough. I see my machines using up to 320Mb which is about the same as I get with XP pro. I guess I haven't seen Win 98SE get much above 180Mb, and Win 2000 above 250Mb.
Those figures are for an almost idle status.
It did help if you set machine usage to "network server" and manually set virtual memory.
Another trick was to periodically minimise applications that you knew had memory leaks.
:)