demonhale — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:37:05 +0000

the problem has already been solved, thanks for the insights...

Neutron2k — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:30:15 +0000

I hanvt the time to track through this threads history but here goes

you cannot get into DOS in Windows ME, because it DOESNT EXISTS. There is a command emulator like in XP, but there is no True DOS mode.

As far as I can remember, there is no option for it on the Windows ME boot screen so you will need recovery diskettes i'm afraid.

Serfaksan — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:31:27 +0000

well i would recomend you to stop using ME, because that is a sistem that even microsoft says that they will not be responsible for the damage of that os, ME was a proyect to delete the problemo of the 2yk, but because of the demand and the time that they had to make it it has a lot of bugs and errors, there are even cases that the os itself has ended making damages to the hardware of the computer and I am a witness of that, so I would recomend you to install either win 98 or 2000

steve40 — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 11:54:48 +0000

I don't know what others are having problems with. But I have been running my last reload of ME, for 6 month now with no trouble. I reload one or twice a year, just to refresh.
I remember the dreaded blue screen of win 98, and the fact that it will not work with my digital cameras, "no Support". Or my printer, and does not have the best of USB support, etc, etc. So win 98 does not get my vote at best anything, besides there were umpteen different versions of 98.

The restore function in ME, is it's greatest bug viruses will get in there, and you just keep restoring them. That's why you disable it, and don't use it. Microsoft did come out with a new activeX patch, just before dropping support on ME. That seems to have done the trick with sirus-the-virus, from getting into restore. But I am on a DSL now the has virus filtering on the head end, I never even see one.

I use E-prompter for my e-mail, so a live message never gets to my desk top. And I do not open attachments, even if I know you.

I am also very careful where I go, pop-ups can and do contain viruses. As far as that goes there is really no foolproof OS. Some browsers are supposed to be better than others at protecting you.
But that does not take into account, the other ways you can get a virus. ALL windows based systems are virus prone, and as long as activeX is in there, they will continue to be. Discounting the browser you use.

SearchBliss — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 13:02:11 +0000

ME is a mess, and for now this computer (the one that crashed) is just collecting dust until I find the time to get running again WITHOUT INSTALLING ME. My other computers run Win98 and I'm happy with that.

Lord Maverick — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:45:04 +0000

I used win98 without hacking. Now WinXP + SP2. No problem. Good antivirus + firewall.
I haved experience with win ME too. It was down in two days. After some days it was down again. All friends that try ME - tell me the same about it.

steve40 — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:38:24 +0000

That article is based on out of the box ME. All windows suck!, you cant run any of them without hacking for best preformance.

When you properly hack ME down, it is second only to XP. And if you run some old programming, it even beats that. If I did not know so, I would not say so.

The last time I ran XP, I loaded it FAT 32 just to get rid of the NTFS file systems extreme disk space usage. So if you are going to run XP @ FAT 32, ME is just as good.

All windows systems run on Active-X that is where malware, and viruses get in. So if that is a problem you had better run Linux.

The last time my virus program up-dated, and I ran it. It located several virus signatures in Sun java 5.0, so I no longer have it. A lot of the viruses you get come from things you download, not from internet surfing.

Lord Maverick — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 02:36:49 +0000

As I wrote before Windows ME - sucks
See article from PCWorld
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,125772,pg,2,00.asp

Greg K — Fri, 19 May 2006 16:41:45 +0000

I agree that 98 is better than ME.

As far as the issue of always requiring the cd, there is a way around this. Any system I install win98 on, I boot to a win98 boot disk, format the hard drive bootable (format c: /s). Make the directy C:\windows\option\cabs and copy everything from the win98 directory on the setup cd into the cabs directory you make. Reboot the system without the bootable floppy, it will get you to a C: prompt (those were the days...) change the to cabs directory and run setup from there. Generally it install faster too, and all the cab files are on the hard drive so it never asks for the cd.

With a system that is already setup, you can still change to this, make a directory somewhere and copy the cabs over. there is a registry setting somewhere that tells it where windows was installed from. You need to change it to the directory you made.

Oh also, if you do a fresh install like I described, when it comes time to make the C:\windows directory, setup will tell you it already exists and suggests that is use c:\windows.000 just edit the directory to be c:\windows and ignre warning about overwriting the files

-Greg

steve40 — Fri, 19 May 2006 15:44:49 +0000

I ran 98 for years, it has to many lack of driver issues. And none can usually be found. Another thing is the constant nagging for a windows disk, when you are adding devices etc.

ME is 98, with a bunch of redundant junk added. But does not have the driver issues, and does not require the disk all the time. But to sucessfully run ME you have to learn how to remove the redundant junk in it. Then you have no more problems with it, than any other windows.

The only reason I don't run XP, is I have a bunch of old but well liked programs that just don't seem to like XP.