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Problems with Windows ME
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 6:05 pm
by Alathald
My mom has Windows ME installed on her computer (yeah, I know
](./images/smilies/eusa_wall.gif "Brick wall")
) and has been having issues with it for awhile. I've uninstalled a lot of useless stuff from her computer and did some basic maintainance (defrag etc) but I remember reading something about buffer overflow issues with ME somewhere and was hoping someone here could enlighten me on this. Any other ideas to optimize this computer would be greatly appreciated as well. Thanks.
Re: Problems with Windows ME
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 6:41 pm
by vbironchef
If it was me having to do what you are doing I would back up all programs and reinstall ME. If it was me really, I would build you mom a new comp. or give here one your tired of. That's just me. We only have one mom and they are the best!
Re: Problems with Windows ME
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 6:50 pm
by w00fd06
sweet, i'm not the only one still using the second worse OS in the world (Mac OS X.2.0 would get my vote for 1st)
Re: Problems with Windows ME
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 7:02 pm
by martini161
there is a simple solution to all of her problems! get xp or at least 2000, even thats better than me
Re: Problems with Windows ME
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 8:11 pm
by w00fd06
yeah, just backup the files, and install XP Home SP2 (soon to be Service Pack 3!!!). XP doesn't cost that much now anyways.
Re: Problems with Windows ME
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 9:13 pm
by Alathald
Oh how I'd love too, I can't convince her to upgrade and I don't really have any computers I don't use. Perhaps a early mother's day present...as for you woofd:
w00fd06 wrote:yeah, just backup the files, and install XP Home SP2 (soon to be Service Pack 3!!!). XP doesn't cost that much now anyways.
look who's talking
w00fd06 wrote:sweet, i'm not the only one still using the second worse OS in the world (Mac OS X.2.0 would get my vote for 1st)
This computer has been messing with me all day but I think it's running...ok...until I can upgrade her OS, any suggestions?
Re: Problems with Windows ME
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:53 pm
by w00fd06
Alathald wrote:This computer has been messing with me all day but I think it's running...ok...until I can upgrade her OS, any suggestions?
Well, every time something would happen to my windows ME pc, i'd have to reinstall windows, time consuming, especially if the comp has poor performance, but it definitely works well. (registry cleaner or CCleaner might help registry conflicts, if you haven't already tried those.)
Oh, and i don't use the WinME PC often, i have a new computer with Vista (in sig) (hm, maybe i shouldn't have said that
). I only use the old one when the parents are using the new computer.
Re: Problems with Windows ME
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:19 am
by provoko
You can't convince her? Well, Win2000 looks exactly like WinME. And XP with it's visuals turned off looks like Win2000 which looks like WinME. So she won't be lost, there'll be no difference.
Convince her it's more stable, reliable, secure, and crashes less. Hell, the fact that explorer can crash on XP and comes back, should be enough to convince anyone.