Just wondering... on my P-III 650 laptop, should I wipe WinME off it (which is crap), and install Win2k Pro instead ?
This laptop is my baby, and I do all development, music playing, game playing etc. on it...
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Just wondering... on my P-III 650 laptop, should I wipe WinME off it (which is crap), and install Win2k Pro instead ?
This laptop is my baby, and I do all development, music playing, game playing etc. on it...
is it networked at all ??, if it isn't then you are best off just leaving it alone, but if you want to use it on a network, then make the move to 2k, ME is a pile of crap when it comes to working sucessfully on a network
I have the ME system networked perfectly and it works ok on the network here. Its just not stable enough... its also a bit slow... also crashes too much ya know
The piece of crap is blue-screening as we speak....
yeah you will find that the route of the crashing is actually down to the networking, when i came to uni, everyones computer was running Me and it didn't like the network at all, always crashed and stuff, you unplug it from the network and get rid of all of the network stuff you will see that it works alright, so everyone is on 2k or XP now, so i think that you should move to 2k and you will see how much more stable it is :)
Oh yeah and if you delete a folder, and then empty the recycle bin it crashes it. Screen doesnt seem to get refreshed sometimes... uhn a myriad of bugs.
Anyway, I'll make a backup of my 3 gigs of stuff I wanna keep, wipe the drive, and install win2kpro
yeah go for it, should find it better :)
It doesn't matter whether your computer is networked or if it's never even been hooked up to the internet. Win2K will work better than WinME.
zmerlinz, why do you feel that the upgrade to Win2K is only worthwhile if the computer connects to a network?? Win2K has so many more advantages over WinME than just network-replated things.
The only problem with Win2K is that it might have some problems with certain games.
it is that Me crashes a lot less when it is not connected to a network, and everytime Me has crashed on all of my computers, and i needed to re-install it, the main problems were always down to the network, that is why no other reason, i know that 2k is much better.
i've never had any trouble with games on win2k, then again i've only tried to play games like ut and hl and wolfenstein on it. is it just hte really old ones?