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Thread ID: 31088	2003-03-11 10:49:00	Windows ME and XP	Mzee (158)	Press F1

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127395	2003-03-11 10:49:00	I have used both ME and XP Home double booted for a couple of years now, & I can not understand why people say that ME is a dud! I find ME to be more compatable & faster than XP. As far as stability is concerned I have never had any problems with either of the systems, other than of my own making, such as fiddling or over zelous clean outs. XP takes longer to close down, & on my computer does not support stand by. It runs most Dos programs, although it has no real Dos. It does not run my Kodak DC20 program or Power Com spares program, for this reason I keep ME. I had considerable trouble with Windows 98. Why does ME get trashed so often?	Mzee (158)
127396	2003-03-11 19:36:00	gidday, its horses for courses really, you either like the os's or you dont. like you I have used ME and XP. One of the reasons I think for ME's reputation, came from computers being sold, with not enough resouces for it to run properly. ME was quite glitchy until I inceased RAM from 64mb to 256mb. after that it ran pretty good. Xp in my humble opinion, is so far the best of them all, as long as the computer has the resouces to run it. It needs a minimum of 256mb of RAM, to run sweetly. XP home edition, for me, boots in about 45secs, and standby works just fine.	Robby (3123)
127397	2003-03-11 20:07:00	I agree Mzee. ME ran fine for me as well, had 3 PC's networked in a SOHO environment. I moved to XP mainly because I like to keep up with technology, and find that the prime benefit is that when a piece of software has a hissy fit XP allows it to die without taking the OS with it. With all revious versions of windows a re-boot was needed even if not mandatory. I think ME is not appreciated by those that load every piece of trial software they find, fail to uninstall it fully and then wonder why reliability suffers. Possibly 98 and 95 were more tolerant in this respect? I upgraded to ME from Windows 98 SE, and found ME to be quite superior, particularly in shut-down time. I found that properly configured a PC would fully shut down (power off) in 6 - 8 seconds under ME.	godfather (25)
127398	2003-03-11 22:57:00	Nice point Godfather :) I have used Win95 then used an upgrade version of Win98 and also a "full" version of 98. With all of those OS's I found that they lacked stability. I got WinME about 2 years ago and have found it to be very stable and currently run the Windows SOHO with two WinME, one Win98 and one 2K PC. As you mentioned stability of all OS's definitely appears to be due to the lack of installing and removing apps willy nilly. Perhaps a sign of mature PC use ;) The XP "Restore" seems to be a very interesting feature and might make me upgrade, but I find the navigation around the OS to be less than intuitive.	Gorela (901)
127399	2003-03-11 23:49:00	> I agree Mzee. > ME ran fine for me as well, had 3 PC's networked in a > SOHO environment. Godfather: what is "SOHO environment.” ?? ?:| Sorry about the stupid question but I don’t know what it is :8}	stu140103 (137)
127400	2003-03-11 23:54:00	the biggest problem i found with winME is a lot of people where useing win9x drivers instead of winME drivers. also some programs are not ME compatiable. not all manafactures bothered to make new drivers when winME came out (same situtation with XP at the mo). i've seen plenty of new brand name PC's that came out with non-compatiable software on them. even with the updates to make them compatiable they never did run right.	tweak'e (174)
127401	2003-03-11 23:57:00	> The XP "Restore" seems to be a very interesting > feature and might make me upgrade, but I find the > navigation around the OS to be less than intuitive. Win ME also have a "Restore" feature (this is when it was first released) But for some resign mine does not work??? ?:| **Goes off and has a look at the help section on windows to see if it can help him **	stu140103 (137)
127402	2003-03-12 00:21:00	My 10 cents worth :D My option, I really like win ME it is helps better then win 98 or 95 The only reason why I upgrade to win ME was because Outlook Express did a hissy fit & did not want to work any more.... If you don’t stick lots of junk on it, and you look after it very well, and remove Programs you don’t use etc… :), it does a good job (I am writing this on a win ME computer :)). I reckon that ME is lot more stable then 98, ;) I love ME so much :D :p I am dearly not upgrading to win XP any time soon...(unless my dad makes me do which he will not ;)) The reason why I will not be upgrading to win XP any time soon.. (I my dad have XP running on our 3rd computer, which is networked, & I have been using.) Is because off all the " big " Security fixes etc…& the colure skim’s, layout (even when you change it too classic) and I just don’t like it...	stu140103 (137)
127403	2003-03-12 00:33:00	> Godfather: what is "SOHO environment.” ?? ?:| > Small Office Home Office In my case 3 PCs and a laptop networked, plus laser printer and ADSL router on the network.	godfather (25)
127404	2003-03-12 01:08:00	98 SE is best for me personally not too big and bloated runs well and uses less resources than XP which is more stable and able to multi task better . ME restore sucks I prefered GOBACK but that thrashes your HDD so these days I use Drive Image to create a compressed backup which can restore my C: drive in about 10mins (roughly 2 gigs of data ) Saves hunting around for drivcers and programs to reinstall which used to take about 4 hours . I can now experiment all I like tweak delete try out new drivers etc without any worries	kiwibeat (304)
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