I currently use Windows ME and all I have is trouble. All sorts of problems. I hate to give bad reviews but when it’s the truth, it’s the truth. When I got this computer, the Windows ME that was on it was corrupted so I had a professional to ’wipe clean’ the whole hard drive and do a fresh install of ME, well it worked fine...for about a 2 days...some system files became corrupt, again. Well, after spending some more money I had it re-installed, this time it worked decent for a while.
Well I got on the net about a month after this using this computer. Well, for about a month now I have been getting a ’BSOD’ on shut down on every shut down. I tried to find help at Microsoft’s website and all I found was a bunch of junk. I even tried the newsgroups and no one ever answered the questions I really needed answered. Microsoft makes the software, they should be prepared to handle the giving of support to those who use their products and need it. At some point I fixed the problem with the BSOD on my own, but I still don’t know exactly how I did. I do know that Microsoft didn’t help me.
Also since I got this computer 8 months ago, I have had to ’update’ this thing almost weekly, I have already applied over 20 patches! You would think that an OS that came out back around 2000 would be ’fixed’ by now (considering it is 2003 almost 2004). Also now it takes me about 20 minutes to log into the MSN website and a friend of mine (who knows his way around computers like he does around his own house) told me that it had to do with the .NET framework. I’m on dial-up and the .NET framework is over 20MB! I refuse to download the .NET framework. Also the ONLY thing keeping me on MSN is 2 friends I know on there.
You may be wondering why don’t I just ’’upgrade’’ to Windows XP or something like that, well I’ll tell you why. Windows XP has even more bugs and problems than Windows ME does. My uncle had Windows XP and it gave him more problems than ME gave me problems. Windows 98 to me seems to be the most stable and reliable OS Microsoft ever made. I used it for 2 years without ANY problems, EVEN though I came to find out that it had SIX viruses on it! Well I know what your thinking now and my ME is totally virus free.
I’m going to end this here, I could write a whole book on how bad Windows ME is and how bad Microsoft is, but I would probably be sued ;-)