Anyone like Me?

[Guest cool_boy]

Since here is the Windows Me user board, Iw ant to ask you something. Do you

like Me? Because I like it. No matter what they say about it. It ran on a

1996 PC, designed for Windows 95. And it ran better than Windows 98. The

only problem was with Windows Media Player and Movie Maker, caused by not

enough memory or something like that, but that was OK, since the machine was

older even then. I don't hate Windows Me, I even like it, no matter that it

is the most hated Windows OS ever. I actually have seen more problems in XP

Home than in Me. XP Pro> XP Home. XP Home is worse thgan Me in my opinion,

whether XP Pro is better, but I just never got to like Windows XP.

[Guest George Gee]

Re: Anyone like Me?

 

I think you're preaching to the converted here!

Most of the viewers here are diehard ME fans.

 

The majority of us upgraded to XP many years ago,

simply because most of the software we wished to use

would not run on ME.

 

As much as I like ME, I can't keep an outdated OS

running for sentimental reasons!

 

I still have my ME box, it's not been switched on since

November 2005.

 

George Gee

 

 

"cool_boy" <lilisot1@abv.bg> wrote in message

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> Since here is the Windows Me user board, Iw ant to ask you something. Do

> you like Me? Because I like it. No matter what they say about it. It ran

> on a 1996 PC, designed for Windows 95. And it ran better than Windows 98.

> The only problem was with Windows Media Player and Movie Maker, caused by

> not enough memory or something like that, but that was OK, since the

> machine was older even then. I don't hate Windows Me, I even like it, no

> matter that it is the most hated Windows OS ever. I actually have seen

> more problems in XP Home than in Me. XP Pro> XP Home. XP Home is worse

> thgan Me in my opinion, whether XP Pro is better, but I just never got to

> like Windows XP.

>

[Guest Joan Archer]

Re: Anyone like Me?

 

Mine gets switched on more than that George, but not as much since Kelly

left home but it was handy when John had problems with his machine, at least

he could still get internet access.

I don't allow anyone on mine <g>

Joan

--

Joan Archer

http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher

http://lachsoft.com/photogallery

 

"George Gee" <georgegee@nomaps.com> wrote in message

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> I think you're preaching to the converted here!

> Most of the viewers here are diehard ME fans.

>

> The majority of us upgraded to XP many years ago,

> simply because most of the software we wished to use

> would not run on ME.

>

> As much as I like ME, I can't keep an outdated OS

> running for sentimental reasons!

>

> I still have my ME box, it's not been switched on since

> November 2005.

>

> George Gee

[Guest webster72n]

Re: Anyone like Me?

 

I have no problems whatsoever using WinME fulltime, which of course is

somewhat restricted, considering my personal circumstances. It more than

satisfies my needs for the time being and as long as it has broader support.

Eventually we all have to move up a notch to keep up with the times.

In 3 words: "I like it".

 

Harry.

 

 

"cool_boy" <lilisot1@abv.bg> wrote in message

news:ej3Ak8HoIHA.3804@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

> Since here is the Windows Me user board, Iw ant to ask you something. Do

you

> like Me? Because I like it. No matter what they say about it. It ran on a

> 1996 PC, designed for Windows 95. And it ran better than Windows 98. The

> only problem was with Windows Media Player and Movie Maker, caused by not

> enough memory or something like that, but that was OK, since the machine

was

> older even then. I don't hate Windows Me, I even like it, no matter that

it

> is the most hated Windows OS ever. I actually have seen more problems in

XP

> Home than in Me. XP Pro> XP Home. XP Home is worse thgan Me in my opinion,

> whether XP Pro is better, but I just never got to like Windows XP.

>

>

[Guest roman modic]

Re: Anyone like Me?

 

Hello!

 

"cool_boy" <lilisot1@abv.bg> wrote in message news:ej3Ak8HoIHA.3804@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

> Since here is the Windows Me user board, Iw ant to ask you something. Do you like Me? Because I like it. No matter what they say

> about it. It ran on a 1996 PC, designed for Windows 95. And it ran better than Windows 98. The

 

Respect "Windows ME"!

 

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080318/windows-me-deserve-more-respect/

At a time where there was still a separation between consumer and enterprise

operating systems, Windows Me was at the top of its class.

....

In spite of this and more, people continue to draw comparisons between Windows

Vista and Windows Me as if it were as hip as writing Microsoft with a dollar sign in

the late 90s.

 

I don't think this is fair at all. If anything, it means Vista has a bunch of new and

improved features that we won't realize the full potential of till a couple more

Windows releases down the road. But that doesn't mean it's destined to a be a 'failure'.

 

What's more, Windows 98 Second Edition was released on May 5, 1999 and Windows

XP on October 25, 2001. Between the two, Windows Me was released on

September 14, 2000, giving it the shortest Windows lifespan of only 406 days. Taking

into account consumer purchasing life-cycles and other factors, what's left is only a

couple of days of fame. Any product preceded and superseded that quickly would have

suffered the same fate.

 

http://www.osnews.com/comments/19491

http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=41916

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/03/19/in-defense-of-windows-me-no-seriously/

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/03/18/why-windows-me-deserves-more-respect

 

Roman

[Guest Greegor]

Re: Anyone like Me?

 

My main computer for everyday Internet access:

 

E-Machines EMonster 600 MHz Pentium III

Memory 128 MB 8 Gig HD (4 Gig is enough)

Win ME IE 6.0.2800.1106 Unofficial ME Service Pack

AVG 7.5.524 Free Edition Spybot S&D 1.5.2.20

Tiny Personal Firewall 2.09 Driver 2.08

Primary word processor is Wordpad

(included on 98SE and ME install options)

 

Open Office freeware

 

Quicktime 6.5.1

Winamp 2.91 (From an old AOL CD)

 

Have to reboot about twice per day due to

Windows ME memory leak (only 128M RAM!)

 

This computer, like many others, used

an Intel I/O chipset that was put in

thousands of computers of all makes

before it was discovered to be flawed

and unable to handle DMA access

of hard disks and CDROM correctly.

 

I think it has some of the notorious bad

capacitors which crept into almost

every brand of computer made during that era.

http://www.badcaps.net/ident/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

[Guest LoneStar]

Re: Anyone like Me?

 

 

"cool_boy" <lilisot1@abv.bg> wrote in message

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> Since here is the Windows Me user board, Iw ant to ask you something. Do

you

> like Me? ......................

 

I think ME is grand. I have three computers running it, including a very

old 133 MHz Micron, and it works SO well. My XP computers and a Dell Vista

are fine too, but ME is right there with them.

 

I've heard many elitists trash ME for strange reasons. I even have ME as a

virtual PC on my XP systems whenever I wish to run legacy programs.

 

EW

[Guest N. Miller]

Re: Anyone like Me?

 

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:35:25 +0300, cool_boy wrote:

> Since here is the Windows Me user board, Iw ant to ask you something. Do you

> like Me? Because I like it. No matter what they say about it. It ran on a

> 1996 PC, designed for Windows 95. And it ran better than Windows 98.

 

I found that Windows 98 would quit when free resources fell below 30%, but

Window Me could be recovered, about half of the time, if you caught it while

free resources were 10%, or more. In that respect, I considered Windows Me a

better OS than Windows 98.

> The only problem was with Windows Media Player and Movie Maker, caused by not

> enough memory or something like that, but that was OK, since the machine was

> older even then. I don't hate Windows Me, I even like it, no matter that it

> is the most hated Windows OS ever. I actually have seen more problems in XP

> Home than in Me. XP Pro> XP Home. XP Home is worse thgan Me in my opinion,

> whether XP Pro is better, but I just never got to like Windows XP.

 

Windows Me is a "day computer". If you shut it down at the end of the day,

it would start up fine the next time you ran it. Alas, when I replaced the

old HP Pavilion 6745C (Windows Me) with a new HP Pavilion m7590n, (Windows

MCE 2005), and relegated the old computer to running an MTA (Mercury/32), I

found out that Windows Me does not work well in the long haul. If it runs

longer than two days, free resources drop below 10%, and at that level, even

Windos Me falls over irrecoverably. Windows MCE 2005 (which is basically

Windows XP Pro with Media Center applications, and no Windows Domain

capability) can run 24/7.

 

It is my intent, so long as I am using that aging Pavilion as a mail server,

to either upgrade it to Windows XP Home edition (so I can continue to run

Mercury/32), or, maybe Linus (so I can run a Linux-based mail server).

 

My use of that old mule is taxing it severely.

 

--

Norman

~Shine, bright morning light,

~now in the air the spring is coming.

~Sweet, blowing wind,

~singing down the hills and valleys.

[Guest Corday]

Re: Anyone like Me?

 

I'm the I.T. guy in my house. My wife uses Vista and I get by with ME.

Frankly, it's the operator, not the system that results in who's having

"problems". Anyone still on ME should put in as much RAM as possible. Don't

overclock and operate in less than 80F and your good to go for another 5

years.

--

Corday

 

 

"N. Miller" wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:35:25 +0300, cool_boy wrote:

>

> > Since here is the Windows Me user board, Iw ant to ask you something. Do you

> > like Me? Because I like it. No matter what they say about it. It ran on a

> > 1996 PC, designed for Windows 95. And it ran better than Windows 98.

>

> I found that Windows 98 would quit when free resources fell below 30%, but

> Window Me could be recovered, about half of the time, if you caught it while

> free resources were 10%, or more. In that respect, I considered Windows Me a

> better OS than Windows 98.

>

> > The only problem was with Windows Media Player and Movie Maker, caused by not

> > enough memory or something like that, but that was OK, since the machine was

> > older even then. I don't hate Windows Me, I even like it, no matter that it

> > is the most hated Windows OS ever. I actually have seen more problems in XP

> > Home than in Me. XP Pro> XP Home. XP Home is worse thgan Me in my opinion,

> > whether XP Pro is better, but I just never got to like Windows XP.

>

> Windows Me is a "day computer". If you shut it down at the end of the day,

> it would start up fine the next time you ran it. Alas, when I replaced the

> old HP Pavilion 6745C (Windows Me) with a new HP Pavilion m7590n, (Windows

> MCE 2005), and relegated the old computer to running an MTA (Mercury/32), I

> found out that Windows Me does not work well in the long haul. If it runs

> longer than two days, free resources drop below 10%, and at that level, even

> Windos Me falls over irrecoverably. Windows MCE 2005 (which is basically

> Windows XP Pro with Media Center applications, and no Windows Domain

> capability) can run 24/7.

>

> It is my intent, so long as I am using that aging Pavilion as a mail server,

> to either upgrade it to Windows XP Home edition (so I can continue to run

> Mercury/32), or, maybe Linus (so I can run a Linux-based mail server).

>

> My use of that old mule is taxing it severely.

>

> --

> Norman

> ~Shine, bright morning light,

> ~now in the air the spring is coming.

> ~Sweet, blowing wind,

> ~singing down the hills and valleys.

>

[Guest N. Miller]

Re: Anyone like Me?

 

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:47:00 -0700, Corday wrote:

> I'm the I.T. guy in my house. My wife uses Vista and I get by with ME.

> Frankly, it's the operator, not the system that results in who's having

> "problems". Anyone still on ME should put in as much RAM as possible. Don't

> overclock and operate in less than 80F and your good to go for another 5

> years.

 

System resources are independent of system RAM. On my ancient HP Pavilion

6745C, Windows Me starts just fine. Mercury/32 loads just fine. It runs just

fine at the ambient temperatures in a garage attached to a residential

premises in a suburban neighborhood just fine. Until it has run for 48

hours, or more, without a proper shutdown. When I was running with it as my

main computer, I usually shut it down for the night. Using it in that

manner, I had so few problems, I wondered why people hated it so.

 

I now run it 24x7 as a server; and it is just not up to the stress. I am

convinced that it is an OS issue because it reports running low on system

resources. Not system RAM, but the 64kB User GDI stuff. When those drop

below 9%, even Windows Me is irrecoverable, except by power cycle.

 

That is an OS limitation. The only operator issue that I can see is that the

operator is trying to run the OS in a mode which it can't handle. If I were

to only turn it on for an hour, or so, of playing legacy games, I am certain

it would run fine, thus, for not five, but ten years, or more; or until the

hardware failed. Whichever happened first. However, my intent is to run an

MTA on this system. The MTA is not a bloated bit of code, but runs lean and

mean for as long as the OS is up.

 

As a single-user, single-task system, Windows Me is as good as any OS MSFT

has ever shipped, and better than many. As a server, that HP Pavilion needs

a more robust OS than Windows Me has proved to be.

 

--

Norman

~Shine, bright morning light,

~now in the air the spring is coming.

~Sweet, blowing wind,

~singing down the hills and valleys.

[Guest Mike M]

Re: Anyone like Me?

 

I used to run my Win Me box for several weeks at a time without problem

however, as you rightly say, once free resources drop below 9% or so it is

difficult to recover without rebooting. This was a box (well still is but

only now run occasionally) where the main applications in use were parts

of Microsoft Office 2000 (mainly Word and Excel), WordPerfect and

PhotoPaint from Corel, IE and Outlook Express 7 and WinAmp. The clue to

keeping Win Me running for protracted periods is to close windows when not

in use rather than minimising them to the task bar. Nevertheless Win Me

does benefit from being regularly rebooted rather than being run for long

periods.

--

Mike Maltby

mike.maltby@gmail.com

 

 

N. Miller <anonymous@msnews.aosake.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:47:00 -0700, Corday wrote:

>

>> I'm the I.T. guy in my house. My wife uses Vista and I get by with

>> ME. Frankly, it's the operator, not the system that results in who's

>> having "problems". Anyone still on ME should put in as much RAM as

>> possible. Don't overclock and operate in less than 80F and your good

>> to go for another 5 years.

>

> System resources are independent of system RAM. On my ancient HP

> Pavilion 6745C, Windows Me starts just fine. Mercury/32 loads just

> fine. It runs just fine at the ambient temperatures in a garage

> attached to a residential premises in a suburban neighborhood just

> fine. Until it has run for 48 hours, or more, without a proper

> shutdown. When I was running with it as my main computer, I usually

> shut it down for the night. Using it in that manner, I had so few

> problems, I wondered why people hated it so.

>

> I now run it 24x7 as a server; and it is just not up to the stress. I

> am convinced that it is an OS issue because it reports running low on

> system resources. Not system RAM, but the 64kB User GDI stuff. When

> those drop below 9%, even Windows Me is irrecoverable, except by

> power cycle.

>

> That is an OS limitation. The only operator issue that I can see is

> that the operator is trying to run the OS in a mode which it can't

> handle. If I were to only turn it on for an hour, or so, of playing

> legacy games, I am certain it would run fine, thus, for not five, but

> ten years, or more; or until the hardware failed. Whichever happened

> first. However, my intent is to run an MTA on this system. The MTA is

> not a bloated bit of code, but runs lean and mean for as long as the

> OS is up.

>

> As a single-user, single-task system, Windows Me is as good as any OS

> MSFT has ever shipped, and better than many. As a server, that HP

> Pavilion needs a more robust OS than Windows Me has proved to be.