Screen freeze while copyng large group of files

"ms" wrote in message


Rick, this is a different question. In one of the links you gave me,
Fred Langa said he DELETED WinME and installed in it's place W98SE.
Normally, he is very careful with wording in his articles.

Is it really that simple?

Yes, but simple is only relative to each persons experience of knowing what
to do in relation to how many times they have done it. To go from ME to SE
again surly one would simply reformat the partition, and then do a from
scratch fresh install of SE, and is the only thing he could of meant by
saying 'deleted' and reinstall. It's a 1 hour job for those who do it
everyday, but if you personally have never done that procedure yet, then
plan on a day/s. Compared to how long it took you figuring out how to run
that delbin.bat, you will have your hands more than full to attempt this
project.

W98SE wants to be uninstalled, AFAIK.

I'm not sure what you mean by saying SE wants to be uninstalled? Please
clarify.

Also, this is a 9 year old 700 MHZ Dell, do they do typically do
anything nasty to cause trouble doing the above?

Well I still have my Mom's (god bless her) old Dell Laptop laptop from back
then too sitting over on the shelf keeping it only in remembrance of her,
and it's similar to your specs and it was cutting edge in it's time (hard
to believe nowadays) ..but the thing is pretty slow comparatively to
today's models. Every time I boot it up (once a year in remembrance) I
twiddle my thumbs waiting for it to get out of it's own way (comparatively)
What do you want to use it for? Anyway, it's up to you what you want to do
with it whether you want to install SE or ME on it - either won't cause any
trouble, although a new laptop would be nice heh

nite,
Rick


Thanks,

MS