Sorry to read you're leaving and all the best for the future.

I am actually running out of resources sooner!

Not that, as you well know, the term resources as used by Win 9x systems,
have anything to do with the amount of RAM installed but rather the fixed
size 64KB stack used to store 16 bit pointers and the like. Nevertheless
no Win 9x system is particularly good at multi-tasking with the stack size
being one of the major limiting factors.
--
Mike M


Ogg wrote:

I'm am almost dissapointed to do this, afterall, ME has been a fine
performer eversince I discovered this ng and other ME forums on the
'net to help me tame ME enough to be able to believe that I would
never need to move to XP, ...but recently, I've been very
disappointed in ME's performance and reliability eversince I changed
my video card to a newer and "better" one (worked ok for a while - it
only caused a problem with Shutdown), and eversince I upped the ram
from 256 to 768. The various tweaks to fool ME to limit it to 512
or LESS is not working. I am actually running out of resources
sooner! Very annoying. The whole idea of adding more ram was to be
able to use it. There was a modest speed boost in screen rendering,
and application loading with the extra ram, but I still can't seem to
have more apps open at the same time which I need.
So.. I'm moving on to Ubuntu. The winapps that I absolutely need
will be hosted on my XP'd Thinkpad.

ME first came into my life when I purchased a new 1gHz, AGP 2x 64meg,
256meg ram, 40gig box in year 2000. The first upgrade it ever needed
was a critical one - a new 120gig hdd. About 3 years into its life
ME had started to insist on Scandisk at every boot (even after
successful scandisk and Shutdown), plus the 40gig drive produced
strange intermittent clunking noises. The new 120gig hdd solved that
problem. But interestingly.. that same 40gig hdd is now parked into
a "spare" 500mHz 256meg ram pc, loaded with Ubuntu, and there are NO
problems.
We've probably all been hanging on to ME because we're adamant to not
dish out more $'s to MS. If your needs for faster processor, more
ram, and new programs do not exist, then ME should serve you well.

I really really really wanted to believe that ME would serve me well
for the rest of my days with modest upgrades as required. Afterall,
I upgraded the original box with USB 2.0 and even replaced the
original NIC. ME continued to perform well. But all I really
wanted was to be able to load atleast 3 apps in memory (Wordperfect,
my browser, and WindowsExplorer as I navigated through files over my
network). Suddenly, Explorer.exe would close and fail to reload the
Taskbar apps! The only solution was to reboot. Very time consuming
and frustrating. Then when I learned that ME is theoretically
limited to 512meg ram and that the only way to use more ram is to
trick ME to think there is LESS, that disappointed me. Under those
conditions it's better to get a new OS that can handle that. And.. I
really don't want to spend more $'s on a new box when I've already
invested in a fine 120gig hdd, USB 2.0 expansion, 768meg total ram,
and a better (DVI-capable) video card.
My appreciation and many thanks go out to all the fine folks who
helped me with my ME questions over the years. I enjoyed helping the
few people with my insights too when I could.

..Ogg.