Well, my little computer expert who, btw, is using the MS interface to
post.......do you not have a news server?? Pity!! And you claim to be
an expert?? Hmmm.

So.....there are many of us on here who all met up eons ago when the
choice was 98 or WinME. And we have been using WinME for at least 6
years. I went from 95 to WinME, so have no knowledge of 98. However,
ME is still going behind me and considering the things I put it through,
that is a miracle. Mike is the acknowledged Wizard with regard to
computers and more particularly WinME.

I am perhaps known for getting all of the really WEIRD problems with
WinME, but guess what.....it sure was a learning experience. And not
only that, I could offer my non-techy advice to those that also had the
weird stuff. As in problems with a certain game site, and so on, LOL!!

Don't underestimate WinME......often times it was the person at the
keyboard.....not the operating system. And I never, ever had to take it
into a repair person. The experts were here and still are.

Heather
PS.....I have a friend in Texas who ran a computer repair shop and she
would write me for advice because they RARELY had a customer come in
with WinME.....had more 98's, so it is just your opinion frankly.

"Robb Pierce" wrote in message
...
I understand all that, and XP home works fine. I used ME for 3 months,
and
had to reinstall windows about 6 times. This same machine had 98se
for some
time, ran perfect, I then installed XP pro, and again, ran perfect. I
run a
computer repair shop, and we had zero successful Win ME computers
work, we
reverted back to 98se until it was gone, then made the jump to XP.
None of
our clients had ME for over 6 months because it was so horrible, even
for
single use.

"Mike M" wrote:

Robb Pierce wrote:

Why do people still use Windows ME? Just upgrade to XP already.

There are many possible reasons including a) cost, b) limited
hardware and
c) it meets their needs. Not everything we do needs the fastest,
latest
or greatest. Slightly off topic but I maintain a small cctv system
on the
development where I live. The PC running this is running XP Home.
What
is perhaps different is that it is still XP Home RTM, no patches, no
service packs, no anti-virus, no anti-malware and with no firewall
enabled. Of course it has just one purpose, to monitor 16 cameras,
to
detect motion and write data to disk and it has no internet
connection.
Similarly I know that some here use PCs running Win Me for document
production and similar and never connect to the net. Others just use
their machines for e-mail and browsing, activities that don't require
fast
modern and perhaps expensive hardware. Naturally those running Win
Me,
like those running other older unsupported operating systems such as
Win98, 98SE and even NT4 and connecting to the internet need to take
reasonable precautions to prevent their systems being compromised
given
that patches are no longer being made available for recently
discovered
vulnerabilities.
--
Mike Maltby