What was your biggest problem with Windows ME?

[roadgeek9]

My mother-in-law still uses ME on her HP. It still does everything she needs it for and it actually has never crashed. I think she was the only user that had a good experience with it.

Look around this thread, there are several who actually had good experiences with ME.

[Cnon]

Oh yeah, with that Piece of CRUD of an o/s I had to format my hd AT LEAST

ONCE A MONTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cnon

[fix-this!]

ME did not crash for me hardly at all ? :blink:

[Lord Zog]

Only 1 crash with it when I used ME. Maybe one of the lucky ones??

[fix-this!]

I wish poeple would stop comparing ME to vista, its idiotic !

[robertobaggio2k]

yea i agree comparing the two is pretty stupid...

but to answer the question i also dont remember having too many problems with ME

[roadgeek9]

Only 1 crash with it when I used ME. Maybe one of the lucky ones??

As I've said before, there were some lucky ME users.

[Mouldy Punk]

The only gripe I had with Windows ME is that it was pretty much Windows 98 SE with a new name.

[+SOOPRcow MVC]

I liked it cause it let us use 32bit color system tray icons! ;)

[ßéár]

Because ME was ME!

It ran ok on my old Emachine... But Windows 2000 ran much better!

[MtnDewCodeRedFreak]

Never had ME to begin with. Had 98 SE from 2000 to 2004, then I got a Dell Dim 8400 with XP Home in July 2004.

Had XP Home for like 8 months or so, then I got a copy of XP Pro in April 2005 and installed it via the long way.

But if I had upgraded to ME from 98 SE, imagine the horror. No thanks, lol.

[mclaren05]

Im going to install ME in a VM and see how the experience goes.

I had ME and it was bla. Didnt have a good/bad expierence.

Without a doubt, Vista is (for now) the best Windows OS Microsoft has released :)

[Growled Member]

I hate ME. It crashed once an hour, every hour. I installed XP the day after it came out and I never had any more problems.

[ozgeek]

I had absolutely no problems running ME before. It just ran excatly the same as 98.

I still have the ME CD here that I use to "qualify" for my XP Pro upgrade CD.

[notuptome2004]

Windows ME for me i had installed on a Pentium 233mhz MMX with 256meg of PC100 ram oh it was blazing fast it really was things went great windows ME was great .

Then the Horror on and i mean on stoke of midnight 4 months later my Me install started to BSOD on me and applications would not work anymore and it was slowing down and this was after i did regular miantance to the system it started to eat around 240meg of my 256 ram it was horrible so it seems Microsoft at that time seem to havea Timer of death problem installed so exactly 4 month later from install it start acting up

[leesmithg]

Windows Millennium was fine until the BSOD and goodbye IE.

Drivers were hard-to-come-by.

When XP came along, you had to have one serious issue with something for a BSOD.

I had 2 with XP in 7 years.

I have had 2 with Vista in 6 months.

I had hundreds even with all my drivers and software compatible with WindowsME.

I sold my retail full version on ebay about 3 years ago, good riddance, worst OPS ever.

[fix-this!]

Why anybody would still use a outdated, unsupported operating system is beyond me. If your pc is that old,upgrade it or use linux !

[roadgeek9]

Why anybody would still use a outdated, unsupported operating system is beyond me. If your pc is that old,upgrade it or use linux !

Because there are still some programs that only work in those old OSes.

[iamwhoiam]

It existed.

I bought the full version for $189, installed it and went back to 98SE two days later. All that crap did was crash. It would crash when it was doing nothing but sitting at the desktop. It would crash when the start button was clicked. It would crash just by moving the mouse.

[mclaren05]

For more than 12 hours it has been running in a VMWare.

No crashes.

[Jediweasel]

My In-Laws are still running ME on a Pentium 2 300Mhz IBM with never any issues. They are on DSL, with a DVD drive, which they use alot, and even a USB printer that all function fine. I have suggested upgrading but they are happy and do not want to.

[fix-this!]

Because there are still some programs that only work in those old OSes.

that's just an excuse.

My In-Laws are still running ME on a Pentium 2 300Mhz IBM with never any issues. They are on DSL, with a DVD drive, which they use alot, and even a USB printer that all function fine. I have suggested upgrading but they are happy and do not want to.

introduce them to linux xubuntu.

[mclaren05]

How are they going to run Windows programs in Linux? 30-40+ people arent use to that.

[urbanriot]

I had no problems with Windows Me. I disabled System Restore and happily used it as well as I used Windows 98, until Windows 2000 had proper gaming support. Then I made the switch. People go on and on about how bad Windows Me was, but I personally believe they had **** hardware and didn't have hardware properly tuned for ACPI.

[markwolfe Veteran]

How are they going to run Windows programs in Linux? 30-40+ people arent use to that.

For the record, I am 42.