Forum: General
February 18th 08, 06:15 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 43
Views: 3,878
Time for a new operating system??
Mike M wrote:
|| Review your dates. Win Me wasn't even released until June 2000. My
|| cpu comments were out by about a year.
I was out by six months. Reviewing the date of my order, I purchased...
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Forum: General
February 18th 08, 03:01 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 43
Views: 3,878
Time for a new operating system??
Mike M wrote:
|| I'm sorry but that's absolute rubbish and I'm surprised that you
|| make such a statement. Take RAM for example, Systems simply didn't
|| have 1 or 2GB of RAM when Win Me was...
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Forum: General
February 18th 08, 12:34 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 43
Views: 3,878
Time for a new operating system??
webster72n wrote:
|| Just for the record, these are 'minor' occurrences and can easily be
|| fixed by either using Tweak UI, or IE Repair in Add/Remove Programs.
|| Once the system is stabilized, it...
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Forum: General
February 17th 08, 02:10 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 43
Views: 3,878
Time for a new operating system??
webster72n wrote:
|| I'm very sorry to see you have these problems with WinME, but it
|| can't all be ME's fault, because I surely don't have them with my
|| system. There may be little snags now...
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Forum: General
February 17th 08, 12:50 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 43
Views: 3,878
Time for a new operating system??
wrote:
|| ME is OK but Windows2000 works waaay better, at least for me, the way
|| an operating system should act and feel when using it.
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|| Also compared to XP I would rather...
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Forum: General
February 17th 08, 12:35 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 43
Views: 3,878
Time for a new operating system??
wrote:
|| Ogg wrote:
||| 2000. WinME itself doesn't provide anything extraordinary to
||| compel me to stay with it. I've tested Ubuntu and a few other
||| distro's with the pc...
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Forum: General
February 16th 08, 01:18 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 43
Views: 3,878
Time for a new operating system??
Mike M wrote:
|| Have you limited the amount of RAM that can be used for the virtual
|| cache to 512MB? If not then it is not surprising that the system is
|| unstable as you will be running out of...
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Forum: General
February 15th 08, 10:51 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 43
Views: 3,878
Time for a new operating system??
webster72n wrote:
|| I do understand your reasoning, squirltok, but your assessment of
|| WinME isn't justified by far. ME isn't as unstable and insecure as
|| you make it out to be; a lot has to do...
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Forum: General
January 1st 08, 03:08 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,389
Itunes not compatible
Amzonie wrote:
|| OK, bear with me (chick and computer) - here are the specs:
|| Pentium 3 @ 930 MHz
|| 383MB memory
|| 2 hard drives (60 & 20 GB)
|| Windows ME version 4.90.3000
|| MS DOS version...
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Forum: General
December 27th 07, 11:23 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,389
Itunes not compatible
Amzonie wrote:
|| I just got an ipod and found out that Windows ME is not compatible
|| with itunes. Is it worth the $100 to upgrade to Windows XP or
|| should I just get a new computer? I mostly...
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Forum: General
December 10th 07, 05:03 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,558
computer freezes
Dapper Dan wrote:
|| Have this nagging problem in the last month or so where Laptop Me
|| freezes after popup window from Avast notifying detail changes. ..
I found that Avast is a bit of a...
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Forum: General
October 16th 07, 03:05 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 4
Views: 930
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Forum: General
August 26th 07, 09:43 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 31
Views: 5,859
Backing it all up
Heirloom wrote:
|| multi-card reader, CD-DVD +-RW. However, the most important of all
|| is that the case is RED! (this was not one of MY requirements). I
|| am real anxious to see how the wife...
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Forum: General
August 22nd 07, 02:25 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 31
Views: 5,859
Backing it all up
Eric wrote:
|| Any advice on the laptops?
|| I think it will be a while yet before I have money to spare for a new
|| machine, but I'm thinking of getting a laptop.
Your "reasons.. comparisons" are...
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Forum: General
August 22nd 07, 01:40 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 31
Views: 5,859
Backing it all up
Ah.. well, then that's great cuz' I was beginning to feel like a betrayer
or something. I haven't given up entirely on my ME system. It's just that I
haven't used it as much lately since I got my...
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Forum: General
August 21st 07, 04:04 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 31
Views: 5,859
Backing it all up
Heirloom wrote:
|| You are correct, Ogg.......Joanie has XP.
Ah... ok, so I am not the only ex-ME lurker here. Well.. I still have my
ME machine in use, but I don't use it as much as I do my...
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Forum: General
August 21st 07, 02:08 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 31
Views: 5,859
Backing it all up
Joan Archer wrote:
|| Hey I've only just been able to get my first external..
|| capacity, it's 80 GB but as it was a birthday present I can't
|| complain g I use it with Acronis TI 10.
TI 10...
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Forum: General
July 31st 07, 06:35 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,933
WinME suggestions wanted..
I hear ya. Yes. XP would be the better way to go, especially if newer
hardware is concerned. I believe that is ultimately what I should be doing.
Getting a new box, slapping in the WinME OS hdd...
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Forum: General
July 31st 07, 04:23 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,933
WinME suggestions wanted..
I am looking for advice on transferring an existing WinME system to another
(preferrably NEW) set of hardware.
I have an older WInME pc (which I was planning to retire and "convert" to
Linux) but I...
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Forum: General
July 31st 07, 02:42 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,956
nvidia GeForce 2 440 MX not cooperating
It appears to me that the GeForce2 MX 400 card is quite possibly defective
even if only intermittently.
There is a peculiar thing the card does the very first time the computer is
restarted...
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Forum: General
July 31st 07, 04:46 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,362
Startup boot disc for ME -full version
...........It is for that reason that I always strongly urge
users wherever possible to buy legal OEM copies rather than rip-off
Microsoft retail copies.
But there is one...
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Forum: General
July 31st 07, 02:21 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,956
nvidia GeForce 2 440 MX not cooperating
Meanwhile, I also found the original nvidia installation CD. I'm going to
try that first.
When I put the "original" GeForce2 MX 400 card back in, ME auto-detected it.
I had no choice to stop...
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Forum: General
July 31st 07, 12:02 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,956
nvidia GeForce 2 440 MX not cooperating
completely different card: geForce 6200 LE. However, that card
doesn't seem to have a suitable driver for WinME!
What about the ForceWare Release 80 Version: 81.98 Release Date: December...
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Forum: General
July 30th 07, 10:43 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,956
nvidia GeForce 2 440 MX not cooperating
It looks like I have partially succeeded. I manually uninstalled the NVIDIA
references in the Add/Remove programs, and inserted a completely different
card: geForce 6200 LE. However, that card...
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Forum: General
July 30th 07, 07:19 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,956
nvidia GeForce 2 440 MX not cooperating
My ME box must have heard me talking about replacing it with Linux.. the
standard Nvidia GeForce2 440 MX display is (once AGAIN!) only booting to a
blank screen now. The only way I could initially...
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