Windows ME

[John R]

Anyone else decided to take the plunge and upgrade to win ME :D Just installed it on mine (upgrade from 95) took about an hour. and things look to be going ok (touches head) much better looking than 95 and will be interesting to see if it more stable than crash bang 95 :D

John "who started these comments in here" r

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[Christine]

Hi,
I have WINDOWS ME. So far it is good.
I guess it enriches your experience more of our digital world plus other updates.

Christine :cool:

[John R]

You know something i havent even looked at what is in it yet just installed it and carried on as usual :D Will just have to find time to have a look...

[optispares]

you want to install tweakdun to speed up your internet connection then you will be able to get here even quicker
jack :D

[optispares]

just found an interesting quirk with ME .You can't restart in DOS or format a bootable system
floppy disk could cause problems if you want to run the likes of partition magic.or suffer a major crash ???
jack :(

[John R]

True you cant boot back to dos but who uses it now anyway..
As for the boot disk you can create on when you install win me it is an option in the set up process. :D

[EyeManFla]

I use it on my office computer and it works fine. Though there was a problem with AOL that I had to call Microsoft to get it fixed.

It will NOT work on my home computer because of the hard drive manager I have on my 20gig.

[John R]

EyeManFla said
It will NOT work on my home computer because of the hard drive manager I have on my 20gig.

Do you mean the type of prog that overrules your bios so larger hard drive's work ok ?
I have one on mine a western digital 10.2 gig using their ezdrive software and it installed ok. This had me thinking when i was going to install but gave it a try anyway.

[John R]

Well had my first real problem with it today :D .Did a defrag last night and when i restarted this morning it was no go some dll got croupted and would not let windows start :D Thank god the start up disk works but it took a full reinstall to fix the problem and that was 1 1/2 hours up the spout.
:D Wow just noticed now i'm an Insane poster :D

John "the boss thinks i'm insane to" R

[This message has been edited by john r (edited 10-07-2000).]

[EyeManFla]

Originally posted by john r:
Do you mean the type of prog that overrules your bios so larger hard drive's work ok ?
I have one on mine a western digital 10.2 gig using their ezdrive software and it installed ok. This had me thinking when i was going to install but gave it a try anyway.

[/I]

Yes. Because my computer at home is an IBM and I installed a high cap HD, I would have to re write the BIOS in order for it to work. Not exactly worth the effort.