Please let me followup by recommending that you use at least 256 MB for
WinME, and 512 MB for XP on the old box.
If you do not use the swapfile very much, the box will seem smoother and
faster.

Using a 7200 rpm, ATA100 or 133 HD will improve performance, too. Just copy
the current bootable HD to the faster drive and configure it to be the boot
volume. Use the slower, original drive as a second, archive drive, but
create a 2.1 GB primary partition at its head and allocate it for the
swap/page file, to increase performance.

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"Jack E Martinelli" wrote in message
...
Mike S, I strongly encourage you to preserve WinME, rather than revert to
Win98, for the following reasons (among others):

1) SFP, rather than SFC
2) SR (no counterpart in Win98)
3) better memory management (BTW, your comments your "free memory"
are
totally irrelevant to Win98 and ME, but that is for another post, later)
4) better swap file management
5) better system resource management
6) and best of all ... you get Mike Maltby, Noel Paton, Richard Harper,
Alan
Edwards, Shane, Mart, Rick T, Joan, Heather (Figgs), heirloom, et.al.,
and
(once a year) Jim Eshelman to aid you when you are stuck!

OTH, your 700 MHz celery box will run XP just fine for the casual, typical
uses (I did maintenance on one such box just two weeks ago), but don't
try
to load Half Life 2, even if your video card is very hot!
XP beats any Win9X, hands down, in far more ways than I have suggested
that
ME is better than Win98.

Just so there's no ambiguity: carefully consider using WinME or XP Home,
rather than installing Win98! This is a clear case where "change is
good".
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"ms" wrote in message ...
Mike M wrote:
You cannot uninstall an operating system unless you a) installed the
operating system as an upgrade over a previous operating system, b)
chose to retain that previous operating system when you upgraded, and,
c) have not since deleted the uninstall files and those of the
previous
OS that would have been saved as part of b).

If Uninstall Win Me does not appear in Add/Remove Programs either b)
or
c) is no longer true. Your next step rather depends on what you next
intend to do but booting to DOS using a boot floppy and using the
FORMAT
command will reformat your hard disk, or at least your C: drive, and
remove all usable traces of Win Me.

See also KB255867 - "How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to
Partition or Repartition a Hard Disk"
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=255867).

Thanks, Mike
You identified the issue, I will have to format- thanks for the link, as
it
will be new to me.

I am used to W98SE, and ME is too "graphic" to suit me. I've noticed
that
mainly experts like ME and can alter it to suit. For me, W98SE was
always
pretty trouble free, so I will install it. This is a 700 MHZ Celeron
puter, only 128 MHZ RAM, so it later would be only a minimal XP machine
if
I did that.

I notice ME keeps only 2-5% RAM free, with only ME installed. I
uninstalled
lots of stuff that was on it.

On my P166 with only 96 MB RAM, I usally have 20% free.

Mike S