[RESOLVED] WINDOWS ME

[Alphatech7]

Im using windows me, 1 week into install(fresh) wanting to know has anyone had problems or is it more stable ?????


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Alphatech7

[Paul Cunningham]

Not too many bugs but what does concern me is that processor usage can hover around 80% with only explorer running. (No background tasks). Oh, and have you seen how big the restore folders can end up !!

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[This message has been edited by paul cunningham (edited August 22, 2000).]

[Mystikal]

I've installed this on several workstations. In cases where the workstations are on a LAN, I've had terribly slow network browsing results. I've been told that this occurs in Windows 2000 Workstation as well. I'm still looking for a solution.

[WildTech]

I'm running Win Me on the shops office computer now. (650 Athlon) Works great so far. It seems much more stable than 98. I guess we'll see........hehe

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[shawnMt]

Welp, I'm back - had a helluva time moving over the weekend.

My roomate installed ME on a PIII 500 and we tried to choke it. Opened control panel, highlighted everything and hit enter. Then highlighted all the fonts, right click, properties. This got the resources down around 8%. We then started UT and played it with hardly no drag. This seemed impossible to me but I saw it happen. I was impressed.

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Cannot find REALITY.SYS. Universe halted

Paint your old laptop!

[JayTee]

Heh, had a little training seminar on it.
Asked me to crash it/make it unbootable.
Deleted IOSUBSYSTEM directory.

[Paul Cunningham]

I found out something else !!!

ME rewrites the Autoexec.bat everytime it runs. Try it, make a change, reboot and where the hell has it gone ! So, any software that writes to the autoexec.bat file is unceremoniously F*****

Nice one Bill.

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[winky]

I tried to crash it, it rebuilt the registry after deleting it, ran all of my programs, about a hundred, without a problem, but it does not like netcards. I also found that it causes some problems with my intellimouse explore, but overall it blows away win 95 and win 98se. It will also make a great OS for basic users because it is very hard to screw up, but they will find a way somehow.

[richardl]

Has anyone had any problems running the latest version of Mcafee Virusscan 5.0 on ME?

I have had this up and running for a while ok, then it comes up with a message, saying that you hav'nt run a scan for a while. I run the scan, then it still comes up with the message. The only thing is after this, the machine just goes sluggish, and in the end I had to reinstall the whole PC.

I have just had this problem again, but this time, I had created a restore point. So went and used this, and the machine is fine again.
Again this was after running a virusscan, on all the drives, even rebooted in between.

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[AlienDyne]

Works fine on my machine. No particular problems, or bugs. I have to mention I haven't tried any game yet, but I think it should work!

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[pga]

There is a new windrivers forum for Windows ME now that was put up after this topic was originally made. check it out at:
http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/forumdi splay.cgi?action=topics&forum=Windows+ME&number=33 &DaysPrune=20&LastLogin=

[This message has been edited by pga (edited November 16, 2000).]

[lgsracer]

I have a problem with PC-Tel modems (winmodem), under WinME. The drivers were written for W98 and load fine. The modem works at the hardware level. It will not connect to some ISPs with out a BSOD: A fatal exception error 0D has occured at: FF142E5F in VxD ptserial(05) + 0000107F. This was called from 0028:C18370C6 in VxD PPPMAC(04) + 000048E6. It will work with AOL, but not with Juno. PC-Tel is working on a new driver. Some ISP will work if you remove &K0 from the AT strings which defaults the modem to XON/XOFF, but it will not always work. Sometimes new is not better.

Greg Smith

[willys]

I installed the upgrade version of ME on my two computers at home and not only do they run great, but it also fixed the problems I was experiencing in Win 98. I give it a thumbs up so far. However, some games I have tried to load on will not play. Other than that I am satisfied.

[Larommi]

Originally posted by JayTee:
Heh, had a little training seminar on it.
Asked me to crash it/make it unbootable.
Deleted IOSUBSYSTEM directory.

I did the same thing!!! I knew I should have renamed it or moved it. It would have saved me a reload...lol!!



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[jhutto]

Sometimes when I change CDs it doesn't register a change enless I go into my computer and do a refreash. (Duplicated on totally different system)