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what is the best way to update my intel gateway pc from windows me. I know
microsoft doesnt offer any upgrades for that specific program but there has got to be a way to upgrade this pc to make it at least partialy up to date. I dont have a lot of money and I am not a computer wiz. |
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Win Me = XP is a valid upgrade path. If you want to run Vista then don't
bother trying to update a system currently running Win Me because a PC running Win Me is likely to be at least six or more years old and unlikely to be meet the minimum system requirements for Vista. -- Mike Maltby mdwiaterski wrote: what is the best way to update my intel gateway pc from windows me. I know microsoft doesnt offer any upgrades for that specific program but there has got to be a way to upgrade this pc to make it at least partialy up to date. I dont have a lot of money and I am not a computer wiz. |
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Morning, Mike.
I think I can tentatively blame the W7 beta release fiasco for keeping me up half the night so that now I'm up half the night, every night! Here I am in x64, using Windows Mail, which I now know how to re-enable (if not yet anyway how to set as default), thanks to the forum Joan pointed me to. Well, it is definately time to hit the sack! Night, Mike. Shane "Mike M" wrote in message ... Win Me = XP is a valid upgrade path. If you want to run Vista then don't bother trying to update a system currently running Win Me because a PC running Win Me is likely to be at least six or more years old and unlikely to be meet the minimum system requirements for Vista. -- Mike Maltby mdwiaterski wrote: what is the best way to update my intel gateway pc from windows me. I know microsoft doesnt offer any upgrades for that specific program but there has got to be a way to upgrade this pc to make it at least partialy up to date. I dont have a lot of money and I am not a computer wiz. |
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:40:00 -0800, mdwiaterski wrote:
what is the best way to update my intel gateway pc from windows me. I know microsoft doesnt offer any upgrades for that specific program but there has got to be a way to upgrade this pc to make it at least partialy up to date. I dont have a lot of money and I am not a computer wiz. If you don't have at least 512 KB of RAM, forget about upgrading to Windows XP. MS claims XP will run in a minimum of 128 KB of RAM; but I have seen that dog, and it won't hunt. If you can afford to bring the RAM up to at least 512 KB, and can find a Windows XP Upgrade pack (used to be available for $99, but very scarce now), you can upgrade Windows Me to Windows XP Home Edition. -- Norman ~Shine, bright morning light, ~now in the air the spring is coming. ~Sweet, blowing wind, ~singing down the hills and valleys. |
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N. Miller wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:40:00 -0800, mdwiaterski wrote: what is the best way to update my intel gateway pc from windows me. I know microsoft doesnt offer any upgrades for that specific program but there has got to be a way to upgrade this pc to make it at least partialy up to date. I dont have a lot of money and I am not a computer wiz. If you don't have at least 512 KB of RAM, forget about upgrading to Windows XP. MS claims XP will run in a minimum of 128 KB of RAM; but I have seen that dog, and it won't hunt. If you can afford to bring the RAM up to at least 512 KB, and can find a Windows XP Upgrade pack (used to be available for $99, but very scarce now), you can upgrade Windows Me to Windows XP Home Edition. Norman, I ran XP on 256 MB RAM for a few years and it wasn't a serious problem. One'd have to be running the sort of things that one wouldn't have stuck with Me all these years if one were in the habit of so doing, for it to become noticeable. Shane |
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Shane wrote:
Norman, I ran XP on 256 MB RAM for a few years and it wasn't a serious problem. One'd have to be running the sort of things that one wouldn't have stuck with Me all these years if one were in the habit of so doing, for it to become noticeable. I agree 256MB RAM is quite usable when running XP for most consumer tasks, browsing, WP, e-mail and the like. I even had a PC running XP Home with just 128MB RAM soon after XP was launched and whilst that also worked it tended to crawl when opening apps and at boot time. Perhaps of interest if not for amusement I note that VPC 2007 allocates as its default 128MB of RAM when creating a new XP system compared to 512MB for Vista and 64MB for Win98. -- Mike Maltby |
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Be careful when working with a Gateway computer. A lot of the stuff was
proprietory and anything not Gateway was not compatable. If you were more experienced, I'd say Linux is a possibility, but really, you should stick with ME. -- I mastered Wordstar graphics! "mdwiaterski" wrote: what is the best way to update my intel gateway pc from windows me. I know microsoft doesnt offer any upgrades for that specific program but there has got to be a way to upgrade this pc to make it at least partialy up to date. I dont have a lot of money and I am not a computer wiz. |
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was proprietory and anything not Gateway was not compatable. If you
were more experienced, I'd say Linux is a possibility, but really, Hi Corday, Originally I was going to say what Mike said, but also that there will inevitably be suggestions to use Linux - though I anticipated from the fanboy; whereas yours seems neutral (if like most, short on first hand knowledge but doing certain others the honour of assuming them to be capable of objectivity. Which some could say I'm not - I was going to liken the claims for Ubuntu to the claims that "there's nothing wrong with smoking - my grandad smoked 60 a day and lived to be 90, when he was hit by a bus!" Substitute this for "My mum uses Ubuntu and thinks it's the greatest thing since sliced bread!"). But Mike posted before me, so I didn't bother. But I just submitted the following e-mail to opensuse.org and figured I might as well post it he snip I like openSUSE. It is about the only Linux distro I do like. But they all - or at least the main ones - share the same fundamental problem: the boot/partition management. Oh, it might be fine if all you are running is Linux. But if multibooting with one or more Windows versions there are far too many significant problems from the Linux end - which rather answers the question "which to keep?" openSUSE is better than - for instance - Debian-based distros, as far as booting is concerned. In my experience all Debian-based distros are really bad at finding the partition they just a moment ago installed to - whereas Windows is comparatively excellent at this. Windows NT6 - becoming more and more like Linux - is becoming less adaptable such as when one reorders disk priority. 9x continues to boot no problem. NT4/5 only requires changing a single number in boot.ini. Vista, Server 2008 and Windows 7 are quite easily redirected to the correct disk using BootItNG (to get to BCDEdit) - no typing required! Even openSUSE, however, can fail to boot when the disk order is changed in the bios and the (automated) Repair Tool screw the installation up (not every time but the point is it is not reliable!). I mean, most of the time one can change e.g. hd(0,1) to hd(1,1) and boot to the desktop, then edit menu.lst (IIRC) - but not every time! But the biggest problem is that the partitioner even when one selects to do it manually, often chooses to rearrange some of one's other partitions - typically shared data partitions - and frequently changes a Primary partition to an Extended, when it absolutely is not an Extended, absolutely should not become an Extended, and I have verified really does it if you allow the installation to proceed! Only an idiot would consider that data is not at serious risk installing openSUSE other than when none is present. There are no such problems using PowerQuest Partition Magic 8. Why could PowerQuest write a perfectly stable partition manager more than 6 years ago, yet openSUSE still rely on a POS? I have been trialling openSUSE for a few years now. Initially I was also trialling Mandrake (then Mandriva), Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu and Kubuntu, but I settled on openSUSE as the best by a long chalk. Now I won't waste any more time trialling distros with the same highly suspect partition management - it never gets fixed, there is so much complacency in the community - and since I loathe KDE4, if the only way I can get openSUSE with KDE3 is by installing an old version (with said partition management issues), I'll be giving up on ever being able to ditch Microsoft. desnip No offence. Shane |
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Perhaps of interest if not for amusement I note that VPC 2007 allocates as its default 128MB of RAM when creating a new XP system compared to 512MB for Vista and 64MB for Win98. I suppose that shouldn't surprise me, as I've thought defaults for earlier systems were a bit conservative - the 64MB for 98 a case in point. In keeping with the era I suppose, but I don't see why they don't update it. Maybe there's no need, and I suppose they're sticking to what was the officially recommended minimum, but it seems a bit pedantic. I really must get more RAM. I really must get a new machine, not just with more RAM - and more slots - but with a multicore processor. Even so, I have tonight implemented the Start /Low dodge in an attempt to get VPC to run fast but not completely tie up the CPU, and I was thinking of installing the XP x64 trial I still have, and which still works - but you can't run 64-bit systems in VPC, it comes drifting back to me (possibly on a cloud?). VPC does seem to work okay in W7 - as I expect you know - but for the display issue I mentioned. Every time you move from the host to the guest - and click - the display in the VPC window blacks out, momentarily, sometimes requiring the likes of clicking the guest Start Button or, better, Show Desktop - to get it to redraw; though at one point - when installing O2K in either Win 98 or 2000 - the Product Key screen remained behind subsequent installation screens - so that at various points prior to the next restart the User Info/Product Key screen would reappear! I do like Libraries. Shane |
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On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:00:40 -0000, Shane wrote:
N. Miller wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:40:00 -0800, mdwiaterski wrote: what is the best way to update my intel gateway pc from windows me. I know microsoft doesnt offer any upgrades for that specific program but there has got to be a way to upgrade this pc to make it at least partialy up to date. I dont have a lot of money and I am not a computer wiz. If you don't have at least 512 KB of RAM, forget about upgrading to Windows XP. MS claims XP will run in a minimum of 128 KB of RAM; but I have seen that dog, and it won't hunt. If you can afford to bring the RAM up to at least 512 KB, and can find a Windows XP Upgrade pack (used to be available for $99, but very scarce now), you can upgrade Windows Me to Windows XP Home Edition. Norman, I ran XP on 256 MB RAM for a few years and it wasn't a serious problem. One'd have to be running the sort of things that one wouldn't have stuck with Me all these years if one were in the habit of so doing, for it to become noticeable. I have upgraded my HP Pavilion 6475C from Windows Me to Windows XP Home Edition. I assure you, it would be intolerable, if I were using it for general purposes. It is only tolerable because I can leave it running 24/7 with Mercury/32, and not have it falling over for lack of system/user/GDI resources. If I were going to try using that old iron for web surfing and email, and nothing else, I would still upgrade the RAM to 512 kBytes. Or roll it back to Windows Me. -- Norman ~Shine, bright morning light, ~now in the air the spring is coming. ~Sweet, blowing wind, ~singing down the hills and valleys. |
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