Author: Pete Galati
Date: 10:02:32 08/06/01
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On August 06, 2001 at 11:07:40, Roy Eassa wrote: >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. Well, fwiw, I've used Junior6 with Netscape and maybe the PFE editor, whatever, but I don't tend to run a lot of things at once, and the only time I'm willing to use IE is when a webpage crashes Netscape. I never check the resources, if it works, that's all I care about, and if the Junior interface is doing anything important, then everything else is off. The thing that crashed ME the most was ANY sort of media player just slammed ME's face into the dirt. >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). I usually hear good things about Windows2000 so that's what I'd go for. I don't trust reviews of operating systems one single bit. Journalists aren't especially accurate, and that's about as polite as I can be about them. I'd buy Windows2000 instead. Pete
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