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What's so bad about ME? Everyone always says that one should never have a computer with Windows ME as operating system. I have that myself, but since I'm such a newbie when it comes to computers, I don't know what's so bad about it. I'm honestly just curious. I've heard it has a lot of bugs and so on, but I'm sure some of you guys know these things better than me, explain the negative sides of having ME. (and the positive, if there is anything positive about it, I'm starting to doubt it hardly =P) thanx =P
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Hundreds of small reasons... my favorite reason to hate it:
Memory Management rating on a scale from 1 - 10 = -99999999999
Basically it runs slow as the other word for poo. It uses too much memory, and you are always getting these insufficient memory boxes that pop up that prevent you from using your programs. Just go download windows XP and call microsoft and tell them you lost your key... that's what i did :rolleyes: .
Also... windows ME was a testing phase for Microsoft before the NT line of OS's came out. So think of ME as a beta OS. That's why it sucks, and Microsoft shouldn't have sold it, but who cares, they could sell anything with silicon in it right?
P.S. hmmm barbeque silicon chips? maybe Microsoft will get into the food industry!?
Memory Management rating on a scale from 1 - 10 = -99999999999
Basically it runs slow as the other word for poo. It uses too much memory, and you are always getting these insufficient memory boxes that pop up that prevent you from using your programs. Just go download windows XP and call microsoft and tell them you lost your key... that's what i did :rolleyes: .
Also... windows ME was a testing phase for Microsoft before the NT line of OS's came out. So think of ME as a beta OS. That's why it sucks, and Microsoft shouldn't have sold it, but who cares, they could sell anything with silicon in it right?
P.S. hmmm barbeque silicon chips? maybe Microsoft will get into the food industry!?
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hehehe.. okay thanx. I've actually been thinking about getting XP instead (ME was included when I bought the computer for 3½ years ago).. I guess all of the reasons to hate ME are relevant, I have to say that I've noticed a few annoying things when using my computer.. =P anyway, thanx 4 ur time!
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Also, I don't know if you have ever tried using profiles with ME, but I did that once when we had a family computer with ME on it. I had two profiles: 1 for my mom and 1 for me. It totally screwed my whole OS up. So if you want to have a multiuser capable OS use something other than ME too. (Could have just been a special case for me though, I mean there has to be something that could mess up in millions and billions of lines of code.)
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yeah, there are two profiles on this computer too... what happened with yours? this should interest me, it may well be I'm there right now.
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Windows ME seems to do well the way my Grandma runs it. To conserve power, she turns the computer on and off. That means it reboots often...
ME seems to be very good for very specific hardware, and junk on all the rest.
ME seems to be very good for very specific hardware, and junk on all the rest.
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Old computers are getting to be a lost art. Here at Uncreative Labs, we still enjoy using the old computers. Sometimes we want to see how far a particular system can go, other times we use a stock system to remind ourselves of what we once had.
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10 bucks says you can probably do that in XP.
P.S. before you ask/make a new thread... GOOGLE IT!!!
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I'm sorry, Windows ME was an abhorration that never should have been created.
The only complaints I have about it aren't that tangible. For one thing, how is it that you can reinstall it, and it can crash before installing ANYTHING? I mean ANYTHING-- no drivers, nothing. That's the mark of a crappy OS when there's no hardware failure.
Second: Why couldn't they have just improved 98-- it was FINE for what it was! I think all they were trying to do was milk another nickel and dime from the 9x codebase. They added a 2000-ish icon set, and prettyed things up a little, just to make it look more "updated for the new millenium". Any system that can run ME will run 98, if not better.
Also, inexplicably, 98 drivers don't often work, and a lot of times there aren't any ME-native drivers for certain devices. This is odd, because from what I was told, there weren't supposed to have been any major changes from the way 98 and ME handles device drivers.
It's SLOW. That newly added GUI overhead makes your system a little slower. I've seen a clean reinstalled ME system's boot time improve more than 1 minute by installing 98 on it.
...All this, and the fact that it was built upon a somewhat unstable codebase to begin with. The 9x series of Windows OS could barf for no good reason sometimes, and it wasn't oriented at all towards security, making it SUPER easy to write viruses and spyware hacks. It didn't help any that the same registry/browser type architecture was built into XP, making a lot of spyware insertion techniques still valid.
There are a couple of things that I did like about ME, as compared with 2000 and 98. Up from 2000, they decided to reinclude MSCONFIG, which was absent in 2000. (you had to install it yourself) Included from 2000 was SFP (system file protection), a limited scheme for protecting certain system files from being overwritten, and it was the first unveiling of System Restore, which went one step further towards restoring your registry and saving your OS.
of course, System Restore was not without its faults-- without a patch provided by Microsoft, System Restore in ME was unusable after Sept 9, 2001!
The only complaints I have about it aren't that tangible. For one thing, how is it that you can reinstall it, and it can crash before installing ANYTHING? I mean ANYTHING-- no drivers, nothing. That's the mark of a crappy OS when there's no hardware failure.
Second: Why couldn't they have just improved 98-- it was FINE for what it was! I think all they were trying to do was milk another nickel and dime from the 9x codebase. They added a 2000-ish icon set, and prettyed things up a little, just to make it look more "updated for the new millenium". Any system that can run ME will run 98, if not better.
Also, inexplicably, 98 drivers don't often work, and a lot of times there aren't any ME-native drivers for certain devices. This is odd, because from what I was told, there weren't supposed to have been any major changes from the way 98 and ME handles device drivers.
It's SLOW. That newly added GUI overhead makes your system a little slower. I've seen a clean reinstalled ME system's boot time improve more than 1 minute by installing 98 on it.
...All this, and the fact that it was built upon a somewhat unstable codebase to begin with. The 9x series of Windows OS could barf for no good reason sometimes, and it wasn't oriented at all towards security, making it SUPER easy to write viruses and spyware hacks. It didn't help any that the same registry/browser type architecture was built into XP, making a lot of spyware insertion techniques still valid.
There are a couple of things that I did like about ME, as compared with 2000 and 98. Up from 2000, they decided to reinclude MSCONFIG, which was absent in 2000. (you had to install it yourself) Included from 2000 was SFP (system file protection), a limited scheme for protecting certain system files from being overwritten, and it was the first unveiling of System Restore, which went one step further towards restoring your registry and saving your OS.
of course, System Restore was not without its faults-- without a patch provided by Microsoft, System Restore in ME was unusable after Sept 9, 2001!
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ME was a hybrid of 2000 and 98 that failed horridly.
There were thousand apon thousand of small errors that could serriously messup your system...
There were thousand apon thousand of small errors that could serriously messup your system...
Firefox: no, its not the end all solution, it has its own issues and in time it will be just as insecure as IE, when its hit Firefox 6, if it makes it that far. Oh, and AOL pays for it, incase you didn't know.
Microsoft & Windows: If you hate it so much, move to linux, or bsd, or anything else, stop complaning and move on.
Good starting places: Gentoo Novell SUSE Fedora Core Apple
Microsoft & Windows: If you hate it so much, move to linux, or bsd, or anything else, stop complaning and move on.
Good starting places: Gentoo Novell SUSE Fedora Core Apple
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Originally Posted by JellyHead
Everyone always says that one should never have a computer with Windows ME as operating system. I have that myself, but since I'm such a newbie when it comes to computers, I don't know what's so bad about it. I'm honestly just curious. I've heard it has a lot of bugs and so on, but I'm sure some of you guys know these things better than me, explain the negative sides of having ME. (and the positive, if there is anything positive about it, I'm starting to doubt it hardly =P) thanx =P
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