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I think my brother owns the single machine that worked perfectly with ME, and on which installing anything else was a stupid thing to do. ME on that machine was, believe it or not, rock solid.
However I'm convinced installing ME again would make it even worse. Things like that happen only once, if ever.
Steve B.: But they can't match our rate of innovation! I've got over 12000 developers working on Windows OS alone! Their staff is a small fraction of that!
Mr. CIO: That's why we're moving to OS X.
I'm pretty sure that Win2000 was an earlier release than ME (by almost a year), in which case it can't be considered a "subsequent version". Although it would be an improvement, it would also be a step backward.
Ideology: A tool used primarily to avoid the bother of thinking.
I've already bought more memory for myself. Been there...saved up.
Can you suggest how I can do the same? Monster and CareerBuilder have failed me.
After 2 years of running ME, it blue-screened every 2 hours. After 2 years of Windows-98, it crashed every week. After 4 years of XP, it crashes once a year. I'd say that ME has a few problems.
Ewige Blumenkraft.
Spoken like a coward who apparentally never actually used it. Terrible trolling technique. No biscuit for you.
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I AGREE.
Windows ME is NOT an evil force that's trying to eat your children and lock you in the basement.
(That's what clowns are for.)
I AM a big fan of ME because it gave us the greatest repair tool EVER for a windows OS short of doing a format/reinstall... System Recovery. When I did tech support for a major pc vendor, undoing windows hiccups like drivers suddenly up going away(and it happened in windows 98SE too, alot) became waaay easier.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
Consider upgrading from ME to XP then. (And, talking of XP, it also has faster boot times than 2000.)