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| Thread ID: 47307 | 2004-07-22 09:37:00 | Windows ME - True or False Question | amyes5 (2773) | Press F1 |
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| 254324 | 2004-07-22 11:28:00 | FALSE: No OS can change the BIOS (basic input output system) Theoretically, if you upgrade from Win98 to ME you should able to uninstall ME to go back to 98, I stress theoretically!! A Clean install is more likely to be hassle free, but you cannot go back to 98. The choice is yours. |
tech_mister (433) | ||
| 254325 | 2004-07-22 12:26:00 | Im with Robo and Metla - although Tweak'es right about drivers ;-) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 254326 | 2004-07-22 13:07:00 | Agree with most people.. ME sucks... Its like a 98 kernel with an XP dongle... pretty much the only windows os i've used thats got the same feeling as XP... walking through mud. i.e. *splotch *splotch *splotch Glad with my win2k/suse o/s's i can run quite easily... |
willie_M (5608) | ||
| 254327 | 2004-07-22 13:14:00 | Howdy Metla, I have a HP Scanjet 5100C that is very much in this category! It runs fine under Windows 98, but will not run under ME, 2K or XP Pro. I haven't seen if it will run under XP Home yet though. As it is a reasonable scanner, needless to say that I have one PC that permanently runs Windows 98 just for it :) |
Gorela (901) | ||
| 254328 | 2004-07-22 15:44:00 | > Its like a 98 kernel with an XP dongle... :^O |
kiki (762) | ||
| 254329 | 2004-07-22 21:31:00 | If you're happy with win2k, you should be able to get XP running virtually the same. On Arstechnica I think there was a long thread discussing the speed at which various apps would run on XP or 2k and the differences were evenly split and not worth worrying about. WinME is able to use old .vxd drivers, it will default to new WDM-compliant (.sys) drivers. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 254330 | 2004-07-23 12:50:00 | > If you're happy with win2k, you should be able to get XP running virtually the same I've stripped down, optimized, clean installed, and the bastard will still not run right. I always get crashes, hangs, sticky patches.... its just disgusting. Never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever have i seen an XP system that runs faster than a WinXP system... even on a faster system. I'm not talking about benchmarks and statistics etc.. i'm talking about feeling. And feeling is what matters most. Oh.. sorry my bad. I have seen some running good. The identical systems at AUT run XP Pro... and they do it b.e.a. u-tifully! I don't know what the hell they've done but its amazing! So far I've only had one bad freeze, while trying to open a start menu. Amazing job AUT techies. |
willie_M (5608) | ||
| 254331 | 2004-07-23 13:02:00 | >> Never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever have i seen an XP system >>that runs faster than a WinXP system.. I agree :-) R2 |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 254332 | 2004-07-23 13:02:00 | > The identical systems at AUT run XP Pro... and they do it b.e.a. u-tifully! I don't know what the hell they've done but its amazing! So far I've only had one bad freeze, while trying to open a start menu. > Amazing job AUT techies. Mabe it is Virtual XP run from linux |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 254333 | 2004-07-23 13:17:00 | >>Amazing job AUT techies. ???????? Thats how XP is right out of the box. :D |
metla (154) | ||
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