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 Feb 23 2008, 08:32 PM
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Just curious, thanks. XP RULES! 
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 Feb 24 2008, 02:35 AM
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 Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 167 Joined: 26-July 05 From: Nottingham The Worlds Best City... England U.K. Member No.: 28,783 |
QUOTE(RknRusty @ Feb 24 2008, 01:32 AM)  I've always wondered exactly what the heck ME is. Could someone humor me with an answer? It is an alternative  "Operating System"  I  kind of like it   -------------------- |
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Feb 24 2008, 03:32 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 45 Joined: 6-August 07 From: US Member No.: 148,456 |
Wiki description:
QUOTE The successor to Windows 98, Windows Me was marketed as a "Home Edition" when compared to Windows 2000 Professional, which had been released seven months earlier. Basically a badly made "home edition" OS. --------------------  |
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Feb 24 2008, 03:36 AM
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 Senior Member Group: BC Advisor Posts: 455 Joined: 28-January 06 From: Australia Member No.: 52,817 |
Windows 2000 was part of the business group of operating systems along with 2000 Server, Advanced Server and Datacenter.
Windows Millennium Edition was the home use update to Windows 98SE, and it was heavily weighted towards providing a much more complete out-of-the-box multimedia and home networking capability. It included things like Windows Movie Maker, Media Player 7, Image Acquisition, Internet Explorer 5.5, a Home Networking Wizard, system file protection & system restore, Auto Update and hot docking (including the useful USB mass storage device support). There were also the usual incremental updates to things like uPNP & WDM (Windows Driver Model), and system utilities to correctly display information for hard drives over 64GB in size. -------------------- Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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Feb 24 2008, 06:38 AM
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Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 232 Joined: 22-October 04 Member No.: 3,937 |
Main difference: Windows 98 works, whereas Windows ME doesn't (most of the time anyway). It was the worst OS Microsoft released because it was a 'stop gap' between the ageing windows 98 and the not-yet-ready XP. They rushed it through on to the market (even more than they usually do) and it was a dog. It probably damaged their reputation more than any other product. I was one of those who unfortunately adopted it as soon as it became availabe -- one week of torture and I went back to using 98SE.
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Feb 24 2008, 08:56 AM
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Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 178 Joined: 31-October 07 From: South Carolina Member No.: 166,746 |
Well, now I know! Thanks for all the good answers, people.
I loved my 98, although it was still crash-prone, but superior to 95, and I just didn't know any better. Right clicking was just too cool. 2k was even a better experience for me, but now I love my XP, and I hope they support it for a long time. |
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Feb 24 2008, 11:16 AM
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 Senior Member Group: BC Advisor Posts: 513 Joined: 15-July 06 From: In the middle of Kansas Member No.: 76,380 |
ME = Mistake Edition. Rushed out the door because XP wasnt ready
I like spider solitaire & the super fast defrag 98 defrag is slow. Both of which work with 98. Just copy the files to the Windows folder |
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Mar 5 2008, 11:50 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 391 Joined: 23-December 07 From: Wanganui, Aotearoa NZ Member No.: 178,459 |
You know I don't quite see why so many people hated ME. Sure it was terrible when you bought it from the shop but if it came pre-installed it was pretty good. I have 98, ME and XP and ME has features of XP but the layout of 98 and its on DOS.
But hey, you can liken vista to it. Everyone ran out and bought that just to find its nice to look at but goes at a snails pace on the average pc. Plus major compatibility issues with both OS's. To go against the grain - I love Windows ME! 
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Mar 6 2008, 03:00 AM
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Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 167 Joined: 26-July 05 From: Nottingham The Worlds Best City... England U.K. Member No.: 28,783 |
 QUOTE(Tomo2 @ Mar 6 2008, 04:50 AM) To go against the grain - I love Windows ME! Put mi name down -------------------- |
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Mar 6 2008, 01:46 PM
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QUOTE(El_Tel @ Mar 6 2008, 03:00 AM) QUOTE(Tomo2 @ Mar 6 2008, 04:50 AM) To go against the grain - I love Windows ME! Put mi name down Me too! I guess I'm finally used to XP...I fought it tooth and nail though. It's tolerable using the Classic Theme. And I still won't use NTFS. I'm in FAT32. If I could get ClearType to work in Windows Me (my old eyes need it now), I'd go back to Me in a second! |
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Mar 6 2008, 01:56 PM
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 Big Brother Bill is Watching You Group: HJT Team Posts: 2,841 Joined: 17-January 08 From: Northfield, Ohio Member No.: 184,215 |
QUOTE("tomo2") To go against the grain - I love Windows ME! What are you smoking? Billy3 -------------------- In the event I fail to reply within twenty-four hours, feel free to send me a PM (By clicking this link). Sometimes things get overlooked... I don't want to overlook ya!
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Mar 6 2008, 04:14 PM
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 Bleepin' Night Watchman Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,762 Joined: 5-December 05 From: The City of Saint Francis, by the western sea Member No.: 43,307 |
Windows ME introduced several features which were later incorporated into XP and Vista. Off the top of my head, I only remember System Restore as being one of them.
ME was the last Microsoft OS to be based on the 9x kernel and the last to incorporate DOS. In my opinion, it represents their last effort to salvage the 9x kernel before abandoning it altogether for the more stable and secure paradigm brought by the NT kernel. The chief reason for the 9x kernel's unwarranted longevity was the number of hardware drivers available for it compared to NT. Among the improvements NT brought were the NTFS file system which is much more resistant to fragmentation and corruption than FAT(16/32); can handle files up to an exabyte in size compared to FAT32's paltry 4 gigabytes; built in permission controls (not as good as Unix/Linux, though); and built in compression and encryption abilities. Hmmm... looks like I missed the question, you wanted to no the difference between 9x and ME. In my opinion, the major difference is as follows: one uses numbers in the name, the other uses letters. Aside from that, the differences are largely cosmetic (except for ME's ability to crash more often than not.) --------------------  |
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Mar 6 2008, 05:08 PM
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Big Brother Bill is Watching You Group: HJT Team Posts: 2,841 Joined: 17-January 08 From: Northfield, Ohio Member No.: 184,215 |
Windows 9x is the series of operating systems including:
Therefore, Windows 9x and Windows ME are one in the same. More information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win9x QUOTE("Wikipedia") Releases [of Windows 9x] * Windows 95 original release (version 4.00.950) * Windows 95 OEM Service Release 1 (OSR1) (version 4.00.950A) * Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 (OSR2) (version 4.00.950B) * Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2.1 (OSR 2.1) (version 4.00.950B) * Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2.5 (OSR 2.5) (version 4.00.950C) * Windows 98 Standard Edition (version 4.10.1998) * Windows 98 Second Edition (version 4.10.2222) * Windows Millennium Edition (Me) (version 4.90.3000) Billy3 -------------------- In the event I fail to reply within twenty-four hours, feel free to send me a PM (By clicking this link). Sometimes things get overlooked... I don't want to overlook ya!
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Mar 16 2008, 06:22 PM
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Goodness me... Windows ME comes back into the spotlight again eh!
It's basically a remodelled Windows 98 with a slightly more polished UI. Microsoft kinda tried to hide the fact that it was *STILL* DOS based, by removing the options to reboot into DOS mode. They introduced System Restore and Windows Movie Maker into that OS, innovations that have carried on thru-out the Windows line. The problem with Windows ME is, like its predecessors Windows 95 and 98, it was still a strictly single user OS. So no matter how much they may have touted how it was suitable for families, even small businesses perhaps, more secure, etc... there simply was no security on those OSes because any user was the root user. Some could say that this is security because permissions don't even exist, but eh whatever. Also the Kernel was not designed for security, and if the kernel of an OS is not secure then adding any upper security does not result in true security but instead perceived security, which is actually, computer insecurity. That is why Windows NT was around, for business and truly 'mission critical' situations. It was a true multi-user system and had a very secure Kernel that could be built on with upper levels of security including but not limited to group policies, permissions/ACLs and access control. Windows 9x. is dead - I still use it in VMs, and I wouldn't mind a 486 with '95 to screw around on, but you can't really rely on it anymore and you never really could.
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Mar 17 2008, 07:43 AM
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 Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 248 Joined: 25-January 07 Member No.: 108,272 |
QUOTE(meisinscotland @ Mar 16 2008, 11:22 PM) Windows 9x. is dead Not it isn't. 
-------------------- Keith
http://www.martin2k.co.uk/forums I've been programming with VB for 12 years. Started with VB4 16bit Pro, VB5 Pro, VB6 Pro/Enterprise and now VB3 Pro. But I'm no expert, I'm still learning. |
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