Windows Millenium Edition. Is it worth it?

[kb244]

1) Whilstler wont be released til 2001
2) Win2k is like NT , more stable better, office type version
3) WinME (what we werr discusing) which most of us say isnt worth it

also yo...

NT4 doesnt have full support for DirectX , so its definitly not a gamming OS, Win2k however has better support for that kinda thing

[Chris_SE]

Also, ME has HORRIBLE driver support at this time

[Fox]

You mean Win2K don't you?

[kb244]

erm, what Fox said.

because ME can just use 9x drivers since it is essentially a version of 9x

[kb244]

also if he did mean Win2k, the driver support is much better now, since I am even able to watch DVD thru my Dxr3 DVD decoder card, since Creative Labs had made some drivers, so since it's been out a while, Win2k has better support than when it first came out.

[JHausmann]

Originally posted by kovan
i installed winme
its a HELL
its FAST i admit that
but it crashes more than win98 SE more than ever
i liked win98 much better, and it was more stable..
maybe after they release service pack 1 for winME it will get better
now, at home i hate to use my computer cus of that winme ****
why dont i uninstall it? i will when i get a chance

As always, "your milage may vary". I've had no, yes that's _0_ crashes since installing ME on top of Win98 SE (and I had 1 or 2 crashes/lockups / day with 98). Be smart, de-frag and backup before installing but give it a shot. The worst that happens is that you'll lose some time reverting (should you have to).

For crying out loud, he got the dang thing for free. It's not worth buying but _cmon_, he already has it...

[Edited by JHausmann on 10-02-2000 at 03:58 PM]

Am I think only one who thinks win98se is pretty stable?

I had win98 on my old computer, 350mhz, 128mb ram, etc. it crashed all the time.

but since I got my new computer(in febuary) that has win98 SE, it hardly ever crashes,
it used to, but all of a sudden it just stopped.....

I was horribly suprised last week when I got BSOD....

For about 3 or 4 months, I have only been crashing once a month......


How much does your machine crash every day,week,month?

and by "your" I mean anybody who is willing to answer.

[JHausmann]

They're all stable until you add something new to the system...

I have added many things to this system

Personal Web Server Version 1 & 4
Apache 1.3
PHP 4.0.1
MySQL xxxx(not sure of the version)
ICQ
Getright
winzip
yahoo messenger
MS Office
Visual Studio
Photoshop
Paint Shop Pro
Corel Draw
napster
VB2
Resource Grabber(grabs icons and stuff from DLL's)
profit zone(thing to make money)
Winace
powerarchiver
TI graph link(to transfer programs to my calculator)
Xdrive (extra storage)
bulletproof Ftp
scanner
printer
webcam
HTML help file maker
domain name analyzer(helps you figure out a domain to register)
API Toolshed
API Guide

various tools that came with my C++ book(including:
DJGPP C++ compiler
RHIDE, IDE for DJGPP
Help builder
LLLib licencing library
source check)

Borland Delphi 5 trial version
quicktime
Bryce 4
MS Image composer
Macromedia Flash


I am sure there are many more, but thats all I can remember right now.

[parksie]

If it's been written, it's probably on my PC .

I have to say this - I put Win2K on, and had no end of problems. It had difficulty just booting up sometimes, and randomly crashed on others. Then, I had a hard time uninstalling it. Tried installing again - wouldn't even do that. Result - one NTFS partition and a copy of Win98. Ouch...had to do some serious hacking to get that one working again...

Although in its favour, I put it on another computer and it hasn't crashed ONCE.

I think it didn't like my motherboard with the Via chipset rather than an Intel one .