I badly wanted to write a review about Windows ME. Actually to begin with, just one month back I bought a new HP Pavilion 6746 comp. It came loaded with windows me. I was like yeah , its cool and wot not as I had been using on my previous comp, Windows 98. My feelings of amazement soon turned to anguish as I found that it is has added only razzle-dazzle to the old windows 98 and is nowhere near in performance to it. Without being vague I will try n go point wise for a change.
In Favour
It boots real fast and shutsdown real fast too.
It has better autodetect options and amazed me with its capability.
Easy to use home networking( Microsoft is all abt ease of use!)
Newly added PC health feature, very helpful and informative.
A new reminder feature of autoupdate.
A new windows game added, namely, pinball.
That was all goodie goodie stuff , now the bad points:
Its not stable.
Furthermore, a clash between Nortan Antivirus and Windows ME can allow viruses to lurk in your system. Basically, , windows ME has a system restore directory, which is protected and keeps a snapshot of all ur machine’s data and configuration, so that if your PC crashes then system restore can return it to its original state without much work. Now files in this are not even accessible by Norton Antivirus. So u could have a lot of infected files in this protected folder without even knowing about them.
Removal of boot option to DOS mode.
It was slower in performance than Windows 98.
Now just some days ago I read a review about this windows me in a magazine and it confirmed my belief, windows 98 was indeed giving better and faster performance than windows me in a series of simulated tests.
Neway, I have switched to windows 2000. It is a welcome relief but I wont suggest people to do it as for using windows 2000 ur pc shud have atleast 128 MB ram. If u have that then u can switch but as of now many softwares are not supported by windows 2000, as my CD burner software wasnt supported on it.
So, I think overall , if u need stability then stick with windows 98 or windows 2000. If stablity is not a concern then u can do wotever u want !!