Comments on: Why Windows Me deserves more respect http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080318/windows-me-deserve-more-respect/ All the stuff about Microsoft and technology you haven't read anywhere else. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:01:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: formula86 http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080318/windows-me-deserve-more-respect/#comment-150214 formula86 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:34:35 +0000 http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080318/windows-me-deserve-more-respect/#comment-150214 Long, Windows Me might seem respect worthy to YOU, but to me it deserves zero respect in that not that it is buggy and unstable, but just plain boring to use by today's standards. Heck, I could even say the same about Windows Vista, although I must say that if I was forced to choose between using either Windows Me or Windows Vista, I would definitely opt to use Windows Vista over Windows Me any day. Long, Windows Me might seem respect worthy to YOU, but to me it deserves zero respect in that not that it is buggy and unstable, but just plain boring to use by today’s standards. Heck, I could even say the same about Windows Vista, although I must say that if I was forced to choose between using either Windows Me or Windows Vista, I would definitely opt to use Windows Vista over Windows Me any day.

]]> By: Hunter http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080318/windows-me-deserve-more-respect/#comment-149857 Hunter Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:51:18 +0000 http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080318/windows-me-deserve-more-respect/#comment-149857 I gave the 2 year old Vista PC to my mother who hated her cheap dell from 2004. As I am apparently the only person in our family who knows about computers, I am forced to deal with Vista more often than I care to mention. I gave the 2 year old Vista PC to my mother who hated her cheap dell from 2004. As I am apparently the only person in our family who knows about computers, I am forced to deal with Vista more often than I care to mention.

]]> By: Hunter http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080318/windows-me-deserve-more-respect/#comment-149856 Hunter Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:48:49 +0000 http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080318/windows-me-deserve-more-respect/#comment-149856 Well put, sir. As somebody who still uses Windows Me on a semi frequent basis (email, light web browsing) I am proud to say that I have had fewer problems in the 12 years I have been using Me than I have in the 4 years I have been using Vista. I have a laptop running XP and it does any heavy internet activities and a windows 7 machine I built from scratch as a media center PC. Get a reasonable system like mine (700 mhz Celeron with 256 mb ram) and whatever fixes microsoft has for it, and you have a decent computer for browsing the internet. I would recommend Opera 9.0 web browser as it seems to be the fastest I've found with Millenium. Well put, sir. As somebody who still uses Windows Me on a semi frequent basis (email, light web browsing) I am proud to say that I have had fewer problems in the 12 years I have been using Me than I have in the 4 years I have been using Vista. I have a laptop running XP and it does any heavy internet activities and a windows 7 machine I built from scratch as a media center PC. Get a reasonable system like mine (700 mhz Celeron with 256 mb ram) and whatever fixes microsoft has for it, and you have a decent computer for browsing the internet. I would recommend Opera 9.0 web browser as it seems to be the fastest I’ve found with Millenium.

]]> By: ME http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080318/windows-me-deserve-more-respect/#comment-143140 ME Sat, 28 May 2011 16:36:02 +0000 http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080318/windows-me-deserve-more-respect/#comment-143140 Not Windows ME - last one without activation, but Windows XP with its evil activation made me change to PC-BSD some years ago. I did not go back except Windows ME virtualized in VirtualBox under PC-BSD. Not Windows ME – last one without activation, but Windows XP with its evil activation made me change to PC-BSD some years ago. I did not go back except Windows ME virtualized in VirtualBox under PC-BSD.

]]> By: ME http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080318/windows-me-deserve-more-respect/#comment-135103 ME Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:03:34 +0000 http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080318/windows-me-deserve-more-respect/#comment-135103 REAL DOS 8.00 capable of starting from HDD *without* any modifications to its files (io.sys, msdos.sys, command.com) is placed on Windows Me OEM CD inside X:\tools\nettools\fac\ltools.dta file, which is CAB file with changed extension, that can be extracted by any CAB extractor, including Windows extract.exe. X is CD drive letter. These three files are slightly different than other instances of themselves in Windows Me, but they works good as supplementary REAL DOS to Windows Me and they can boot to DOS from separate primary HDD partition. This REAL DOS works *as is* without any patches, etc... REAL DOS 8.00 capable of starting from HDD *without* any modifications to its files (io.sys, msdos.sys, command.com) is placed on Windows Me OEM
CD inside X:\tools\nettools\fac\ltools.dta file, which is CAB file
with changed extension, that can be extracted by any CAB extractor,
including Windows extract.exe. X is CD drive letter. These three files are
slightly different than other instances of themselves in Windows Me, but they
works good as supplementary REAL DOS to Windows Me and they can boot to DOS from separate primary HDD partition. This REAL DOS works *as is* without any patches, etc…

]]> By: Superbee http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080318/windows-me-deserve-more-respect/#comment-134175 Superbee Thu, 11 Nov 2010 03:04:28 +0000 http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080318/windows-me-deserve-more-respect/#comment-134175 Just installed Win Me on a Pentium 166 for fun, it finally worked after 10 years! Hurray! Just installed Win Me on a Pentium 166 for fun, it finally worked after 10 years! Hurray!

]]> By: Baldemar Huerta http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080318/windows-me-deserve-more-respect/#comment-132273 Baldemar Huerta Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:30:18 +0000 http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080318/windows-me-deserve-more-respect/#comment-132273 The problem with ME and Vista is the same: M$ expected you to shell out full price for a "transitional" OS, knowing full well there was another, better one on the way. It might have worked for ME, but by the time of VISTA, users were wise to M$. The problem with ME and Vista is the same: M$ expected you to shell out full price for a “transitional” OS, knowing full well there was another, better one on the way. It might have worked for ME, but by the time of VISTA, users were wise to M$.

]]> By: VM http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080318/windows-me-deserve-more-respect/#comment-123026 VM Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:40:09 +0000 http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080318/windows-me-deserve-more-respect/#comment-123026 WOW! What an awesome page!! (Closet ME user) WOW! What an awesome page!!

(Closet ME user)

]]> By: Justsomeguy http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080318/windows-me-deserve-more-respect/#comment-122575 Justsomeguy Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:05:11 +0000 http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080318/windows-me-deserve-more-respect/#comment-122575 Automatic updates suck... they have caused more problems then most ppl realize because microsoft likes to guinea pig test everything on its users. Automatic updates suck… they have caused more problems then most ppl realize because microsoft likes to guinea pig test everything on its users.

]]> By: rinoplastia http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080318/windows-me-deserve-more-respect/#comment-76771 rinoplastia Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:38:47 +0000 http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080318/windows-me-deserve-more-respect/#comment-76771 Windows ME made me change to Linux some years ago. I did not go back. Windows ME made me change to Linux some years ago. I did not go back.

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