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Subject: Re: Possible to download a virus through CCC? (OT)

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 08:07:40 08/06/01

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On August 05, 2001 at 17:37:14, Pete Galati wrote:

>>Windows ME a virus? hehehe. I have a question, when you installed ME was it a
>>clean install? or did you install it over Windows 98? If a clean install then it
>>should be pretty stable...
>
>It came on the computer.  The company installed it.  If I ever bought another
>computer that had ME on it, the first thing I'd do is format the harddrive and
>install Windows98 SE.  There's no way I'd mess with that ME again.
>


When I bought a new PC a couple months ago, warnings like the above convinced me
to get Win98se.  It may be a lot better than WinME, but it still runs out of
resources when you run simultaneously such things as ChessAssistant, Internet
Explorer, Word, and Fritz (as an example), not to mention anything that uses
Java.

I'm totally convinced I made a mistake and should have just gotten Win2000 from
the get-go.  So I've decided to upgrade ... but figure WinXP is the best choice
at this moment (although a bit more risky since I'll be using a pre-release
version -- but one that's been reviewed as very stable).



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