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Summary: Worst Windows Product Ever
Review: Unfortunately, ME came with a brand new computer that I purchased last year. I have had nothing but trouble with this operating system. It's terrible and full of bugs. I wish I could give it less that one star.
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Summary: DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON WINDOWS ME!!
Review: We bought 2 HP Pavilions for our office with Windows ME loaded on them. They are a nightmare. You just simply have to get used to re-booting several times per day. I habitually restart the pc every few hours just to avoid the inevitable crash.
...BR>At the very least, get XP or 2000. Anythind but ME.
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Summary: What was Microsoft thinking? Apparently not much...
Review: This is the worst Windows operating system I have ever come across. My computer crashes constantly and I have noticed many flaws in the performance of ME. I would have to say that chossing ME over 98 is the biggest mistake I have ever made and I hope that you read this and won't do the same.
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Summary: I wish I could rate it more!
Review: This is a great operating system. It has lots of new features.
It is really fast booting up and shutting down. Some of the best new features are Windows Movie Maker, Spider Solitare, Pinball, and much, much, more. It is a real jump from Windows 98.
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Summary: worthless piece of garbage
Review: This is the single worst operating system i have ever used. I average approximately 4-5 crashes per day. God help you if you play any dos based games, most do not work on ME due to the way it handles memory.
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Summary: Remember the fears of Y2K? Think MS Millennium
Review: In March 2001 I purchased my fisrt 'home PC', a Dell. Within the first week I had problems with the MS Win Me OS that included (but is not exhaustive):
· Frequently having to use 'control-alt-delete' to get out of various Outlook Express e-mail functions that I grew to live with.
· Inordinate long time to boot
· Frequent 'seizing up' of computer
· Inability of Millennium to 'accept' my HP CDRW. (HP techs spoke of 'ghosts' on my OS. I was unable to access 'Safe Mode' to allow the HP techs defeat the ghosts.)
· But what was most annoying and troubling to me was that it sounded as though my hard drive was 'on' as though it was continually 'looking' for 'something' that wasn't there.
It seemed that invariably the advice that I got from Dell was either to reset the 'registry' or to reload Millennium. Mind you that this is advice after only a month.
I called for Earthlink (my ISP), HP and Dell tech support (the latter two in particular. MS tech support is a joke - but that's intentional, right?) often enough and displayed such copious quantities of frustration with what Microsoft calls an 'operating system' that they often took pity on me, let down their professionalism and confessed to me that in their opinion MS Millennium was junk or in their words, "extremely unstable".
After about six months of utter frustration I purchased MS Win 2000 (with trepidation: good money after bad). To this day I have had no problems. My computer starts fast, doesn't 'whine' or 'seize up' and I have yet to use 'control-alt-delete'. (But why are my 'printing options' in FRENCH??)
Funny thing is that EVERYONE that I know that has Microsoft Windows Millennium dumps it as fast as they can. Millennium is truly a piece of junk that Microsoft put on the market WAY too early to make a pile of money.
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Summary: Not so much a review, as more of an epitaph
Review: When they made Millennium Edition Microsoft invented the cure for which there is no known disease. There is no point to it.The real reasons for ME were Microsoft product lifecycles (98 was getting to the end of it's period and XP was too far away) and practicality. ME was a stepping stone to XP - but that was for MS's benefit - not the poor soul who got stuck with ME. I have to add that I think that most of Microsoft's products, including their operating systems, are generally fairly good, but Windows Millennium was a shambles and I bet Microsoft themselves are glad to see the back of it. Although a few people have said they have had good experiences with ME, they are the lucky ones. The main problem seems be to be device driver related. I bought a new machine with ME installed and the fun started when trying to use all of my existing peripherals. Although my CD writer software was ME compliant I still had massive problems with stability. I know a few who had problem with ME without having any legacy kit. A non-technical colleague said to me "my machine came with the version of Windows that crashes a lot" - no suprises which version. Microsoft added a few new features, such as system restore. It is a pity that it is so bug-ridden and resource hungry. On one occassion the system restore took me back six software installations instead of the one that should have been rolled back. After testing the concept out of us ME users you will be glad to know that it now works well in XP. Unfortunately if you like making HTML/ASP pages Microsoft saw fit to remove Personal Web Server from ME, although you can get it to work if your nerves are strong enough. Most of the other useful bits (latest versions of media player, IE) could be downloaded for 98. Lets face it, if it had been any good Microsoft would have charged a fortune for the upgrade.
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Summary: Get Something Else
Review: Very unstable. My computer -- with 356 megs of memory -- crashes at least once a day and often several times because memory runs out, even though I don't use anything more complicated than spreadsheets -- small ones at that -- and rarely have more than three applications open at one time -- a spreadsheet, word processor and browser. Locks up during shutdown about 50% of the time, requiring a cold boot and scandisk. Then, scandisk often locks, requiring a second cold start, skipping scandisk. I had to reboot twice to get on-line to write this. Loading any software, even Microsoft products, causes problems -- the loaded software doesn't work, something else doesn't work, or the computer becomes unstable. These problems are are often difficult to fix and waste a tremendous amount of time. Stick with 98 or go to NT -- don't stop here. Better still, go to Linux.
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Summary: The worst OS the world has ever known
Review: Do you miss having your computer suddenly freeze on you leaving you no option but to praise the almighty and whoever invented the reset button? Do you want to gnaw your nails, tear out your hair and coming within an inch of going postal and wasting whoever crosses your path over the next 24 hours? Do you want the experience of contemplating suicide while looking at a blue computer screen ?
Purchase Windows Millenium for these life altering experiences and more. Guaranteed for maximum frustration and inducing the impulse to smash your PC. "nuff said".
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Summary: TWENTY YEARS ON.
Review: About nine months ago I decided to I wanted to use the Web so I bought my first Windows machine after using DOS3.12 for over 11 years. It was Windows Me and I found it a completely unstable OS. I spend more time fixing things than using my machine. My help screen was reduced to four lines and some links that did not work. System Restore showed a date of December 1899 and would not work. IE crashes or hangs all the time. M$ knowledge base has such a poor search engine I literally spend hours trying to find an answer to my problems. I manged to get System Restore back but it still won't work. What kind of an OS is this? I also get problems with WORD 2000 but as this is a review of Windows Me I won't go into that, except to say that M$'s troubles are not confined to their OS. My TV set has run over 20,000 hours without a fault but I can't get 10 hours without a fault with Me. Bill Gate's dream of the computer being the home entertainment centre is no dream - it's a nightmare. If Micro$oft can't produce an OS that is stable and reliable after 20 years in the business than they better give up. As for me I'm putting LINUX on my HD and bye bye M$ aka WGIII.
I would not advise anyone to buy this product.
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