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I have a Dell Dimension 8100 running a P4, 1.4ghz & 256mb ram. Â It came with WinME, and I'm starting to wish I'd saved a few bucks & had Win98SE put on it instead. Â I 've experienced alot of browser lock-ups, not just in IE, Netscape doesn't seem to fair much better. Â I've been seriously thinking of repartitioning the HD and trying out 98se on another partition to see how it performs. Â My most frequent error seems to be with KERNEL32, I get errors with it at least once a day that cause whatever browser I'm using to shut down.
A couple of folks have suggested I opt for going to Win2000nt, but then I've also read posts on other bds similar to this one that some people have problems with that o/s also. Â I personally think you're better off going with a more stable system like 98se, since it's already got the bugs worked out of it. Â As for MSFT's new brainchild, XP, well before I'd put that on any of my machines, I'd wait for them to get their security issues worked out. Â To learn more about this check out this link from Steve Gibson, developer of Zonealarm & ShieldsUP. Â http://grc.com/dos/intro.htm Â You'll learn why hacker types love this new o/s

WinME is for people who plan on doing a lot of multimedia stuff. I had it for a short time. Nothing but trouble for me.

I don't have anymore problems with WinME since I uninstalled it and put Windows98 in its place.

ME is really just 98TE (third edition)
It is built on the SAME kernel as 98.

???
Recently I have been getting "REGENV32 has caused an error" when trying to shut down WinME, prior to that it was running fine, never had a problem with it, but now I might just put Win98SE back on, Stability is the key, but oh how I do hate the very time consuming reformat. Anyone got good instructions on using fdisk for a truely clean hdd to put Win98Se on, reformatting still leaves stuff behind which takes up room on the hdd, from my understanding. Please correct if I have been improperly inform.

Whenever I do a full re-installation of Win98SE I delete all the partitions with FDISK and recreate them again. Just format them and that should be pretty good enough. I know there's a command that reinitializes the drive so that it is just like the first day you got it. I had to use that one time and boy did it work. I'll try to find it for you and I'll repost it on the board.

ME is a redheadedstepchild OS ::)

98 any flavour is fine, but my pref lies in w2kpro

Haven't dabbled with XP yet but I am sure I will have to before all too long.

ME and dialup issues general modems and DSL modems just has been a nitemare for our ISP

Almost as bad as MAC users - no offense ment but as of late the MAC boom is back and oh man I wont go there :D

I think that Windows ME is very pretty and pleasing to the eye, but the crashes and lock ups mean that im a Windows 2K guy all the way.
However I apprecciate the fact that most OEM computers come with 98 or ME and alot of people arnt willing to fork out the $$$ for 2K simply because the dont need the extra fetures or stability.

ME's stabilty is not anything to get all excited over. it has problems shutting down when i tell it to, so i have to smack it from time to time.

ME is fine (for a red headed step child) it's just that when it was first released drivers compatibility was the biggist issue.

I have ME running on my old Pent 166 that I use for my Classic 50's Radio Broadcast http://www.wizbonespc.com:8020/listen.pls

It's been up and running 24/7 for about 6 mo. No problems. Course that's all I use it for but the most common problems that my clients have had has been driver related.

One other thing I notice on the HP boxes shipping with ME if the Dialup Adapter gets hosed you have to reinstall the OS to recover from it. There is no easy fix that I have been able to find. I could be wrong but haven't found it yet. ::)