Be sure that your system's compatible with XP. Valuable information can be
found here = http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316639 You'll especially find
the Upgrade Advisor useful =
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/h...g/advisor.mspx

Note that despite their recommendation of 128MB RAM, I'd run, IMHO, 512MB
minimum.

Having been a strong advocate of ME for many years, I've not been
dissapointed with XP which took over a year to throw up an error message.
Note that I didn't upgrade but bought a new system due to hardware
incompatibility with the old system.

Best of Luck!
"Ogg" wrote in message
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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.