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Summary: Avoid This Title!
Review: Windows ME is basicly a poor attempt by Microsoft to get people to upgrade from Windows 98. This OS works ok on most peoples systems for a while, but about 10 people I know who have this OS, or had this product, moved to another Operating system eventually. It seems to be great the first couple of months you have it, but then starts acting weird, and eventually crashes. I have had windows 98 on a computer for years without having to reload. Probably explains why Micriosoft took it off the market so quickly.
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Summary: I'd give it zero stars but thats not an option
Review: I hate windows ME...there I said it. Its like they took windows 2000 and removed some features and made it crash more often. Devil thy name is windows ME
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Summary: ME = Microsoft's Evil
Review: Awhile back I had purchased an upgrade to ME for my 98se machine, thinking that it would run OK even though everyone that I talked to that knew what they were saying said that it was the worst. I happily installed it, restarted a couple times for my hardware to configure itself, and watched my computer blue screen after about 5 minutes of personalizing my settings. At first I thought it was an id10t error (idiot, haha), so I ignored it, rebooted, and continued to be appalled at the frequent number of crashes and bugs Microsoft loaded this hunk of junk with. Half a day later, 98se was back on my machine and normal as usual. The end.
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Summary: Windows ME is diabolical
Review: I bought a new PC back in September having invested a large proportion of my savings into it. When I buy a virtual top of the range machine, I do not expect the following:- Having to restart every hour or two due to loss of system resources.
- Having to disable System Restore (one of the biggest selling points of ME) to give me some more system resources.
- Not being able to start up with the programs I want running in the backgroud because otherwise my computer will be rendered unuseable until the next restart.
- On a 1.4 Ghz machine with 512MB RAM, having a maximum of 34% system resources free. And that was only with my anti-virus program running from startup.
- Seeing friends with significantly inferior machines running more programs at a time than me, and all running faster. The difference? They were running Windows 98. I now use Windows XP Professional. I now run twice the amount of software with 90% system resources free. I've seen maybe 2 blue screens of death since using it, as opposed to 5 a day with ME. I like the new GUI in XP, others may not, but you can change back to the Win 9x style if you so wish. And also, I like my computer to do the jobs I ask it to. Windows Me didn't let me do it. It really makes me very upset that this piece of software is still out there to cause so many problems. Microsoft should be ashamed and offer free upgrades to XP for everyone in the world who is left with ME. And, as it seems, XP is cheaper. What more can I say?
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Summary: Great if having problems with 98
Review: I don't quite understand how I use to have Windows 98, and everything worked, but ever since I had ME, than wanted to try 98, nothing worked in 98.
The CD-ROM, and a bunch of other stuff wasn't detected right in 98, but ME loaded it up just fine.
If you have a working PC, and using 98, Windows ME may not be a huge improvement.
But it all depends on what you want. If you just want to write, or surf the net, read email, windows 95, 98, me, 2000, etc. may seem about the same.
I gave it four stars for working well, and detecting things better than 98. Maybe it's my fault things didn't work well with 98. I don't want to complain about something that may be my fault, but windows ME detected it better, so I am quite pleased with it.
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Summary: The Same
Review: There is no difference from WinMe form Win98Se, you can just download Media Player and the new IE, and you got Me. All Me is, is a graphical user interface built on Dos without any stable foundation, All it is is a 1985 Graphical Dos Program
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Summary: Excellent Bypass Candidate
Review: Before it was released, Windows ME was widely perceived as the home edition of Windows 2000 Professional. As it turned out, it is the latest version of Windows 9x. By no stretch of imagination does it have the stability and the robustness of Windows 2000 Professional. I tried installing Windows ME on a system that had previously run Windows 95, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, three distributions of Linux and FreeBSD flawlessly. I experienced video problems, hard disk crashes and ME getting corrupted repeatedly. I tried reinstalling more than once, both as an upgrade and as clean install after formatting the hard disk to no avail. This operating system is simply not stable. Considering the fact that Windows XP is on the market, I don't expect Microsoft to spend much effort in fixing ME. If you are upgrading from a previous Windows version, bypassing ME is a very prudent decision.
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Summary: blue plate special
Review: Actually, blue screen special. With words not meant to endear one to the product- like "error" over and over again. I have followed all the advice from Compaq- my new "computer" with no luck, including BUYING... restore disk- guess what didn't get restored. I should have bought a Dell like the young man says- and a Windows 98 V.2 OS.
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Summary: I retract my original review..............infinite fold!!!!!
Review: The ONLY reason I'm even giving this software a 1 is because negative numbers aren't available. My computer did fine with ME until I installed Office 2000 pro, and updated my office files. After that, office didn't work anymore. I had to uninstall and reinstall office to get it to work again. Then after I did that, the system became unstable, and when I rebooted the computer, it corrupted my registry, and told me I had to reinstall windows. Upon trying to do so, the upgrade created more problems trying to install. It kept corrupting my registry, and wouldn't install without a hassle. Like someone else said in a review, Windows ME is nothing but a cardboard box with a label, and a CD. This operating system IS A VIRUS! Stay away from it. Windows 98 SE, or Windows 2000 would be your best bet, and if you don't mind living in the cave man days, and for as long as programs are compatible with it, you'd be better off staying with Windows 95 (as long as it is version B or C). I hope this review will be somewhat helpful. The ONLY thing I miss about ME is the movie maker, but I can live without that. Even the system restore was junk, doesn't work at all. If you need system restore, purchase Norton Systemworks 2002, which has GO BACK on it, it's the same function, and it WORKS!!!
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Summary: Avoid this like the Plague!
Review: I purchased a Dell with Windows ME, and what a huge mistake! ME is the most unstable version of Windows EVER! Go with Windows 2000 Pro instead. And be aware that Dell will not work with you to correct any issues with ME.
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