I take it back Windows ME is great.

[chazzy2501]

I just had a call to look at the Windows ME woodwork machine, I was presented with this message...

 

 

4760 Days!

[FN-GM]

What on earth are you doing with that in school!!!

[CAM]

Literally the evolutionary dead end of Windows! MS screwed it up so much you cannot upgrade to 2000 from ME.

[AJWhite1970]

OMG, defrag it asap or performance will be terrible

[Dos_Box]

4760 Days is 13 years!

Why? just.....why?

[Gatt]

I'm more impressed at the fact someone has managed to run ME for 13 years!

 

Most were lucky to get 13 minutes!

[chazzy2501]

You know, I'm leaving it down there. I just vacuumed the PC (was full of sawdust)...

 

bring on 20 years...

 

EDIT: Just a thought but the last time that drive was checked the pupils using it were born...

Edited May 14, 2013 by chazzy2501

[localzuk]

I'm more impressed at the fact someone has managed to run ME for 13 years!

 

Most were lucky to get 13 minutes!

 

I liked ME. It worked well for me for the 2 years I used it. Don't think I had to reinstall anything during that time!

[Gatt]

I liked ME. It worked well for me for the 2 years I used it. Don't think I had to reinstall anything during that time!

C'mon man - you're letting the side down!

[sonofsanta]

See if you can find a WinZip trial on it, so it can tell you that you're on day 4328 of your 30 day trial.

[Sheridan]

ME - still better than Windows 8

[Chris_]

I'm sure @SimpleSi has some primary schools with Windows ME 'servers'

[jinnantonnixx]

Q. What's worse then Windows ME?

 

A. Windows ME with Active Desktop.

 

***shudder***

[TheScarfedOne]

That's truly frightening...

[Gatt]

Hmm

 

Windows ME

Windows Vista

Windows 8

 

Drop "Windows" and re-arrange to form:

 

ME '8 Vista

[SimpleSi]

I'm sure SimpleSi has some primary schools with Windows ME 'servers'

 

How dare you suggest that I'd use such a barbaric ancient system!

 

I only use the best vintage Win98SE as file server VMs

 

Simon

PS Did ANYONE ever ever ever use Active Desktop or did we all just treat it as a virus when it magically popped into operation?

[jumpinjamez]

Win98SE, now that was a solid build only saw blue occasionally. I went to ME from this for about a week then straight back

[jinnantonnixx]

....

Simon

PS Did ANYONE ever ever ever use Active Desktop or did we all just treat it as a virus when it magically popped into operation?

 

It was one of those things you didn't notice until you had the Big Yellow Triangle, and your desktop went south.

 

Then you disabled it and that was 99% of people's involvement with Active Desktop.

[john]

I liked ME. It worked well for me for the 2 years I used it. Don't think I had to reinstall anything during that time!

 

Same for me my ME Laptop and Desktop were fine

[nickbro]

We've still got a windows 95 machine in DT, the miller can't be connected to anything better than windows 98 without buying a new one, and they don't use it much (once a year I think)

 

Had windows me on my 2nd pc, it was ok, never had any issues with it. The pc couldn't handle XP when that came out though :-(

[mac_shinobi]

Win 98 SE !!

[bigdenis]

Hi. I'm rookie here, but a long time rider in informatics, so maybe I can say some words: I was using Widows ME until 2011 in my school! Seriously! The reason was very simple - the poor hardware. Some old used machines from some countries. In the same room there were different machines with Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 7. True dreamland for teaching! :-) So generally speaking Windows ME was doing his job very nice, but today this is past - thanks a Good!

I'm working now with licensed Server 2008 and Multipoint server 2011, but I'm fun of the old historical stuffs...you should see (and hear) students reactions when I'm showing them the first Windows!

[maniac]

didn't 'ME' stand for Mistake Edition?

[mac_shinobi]

didn't 'ME' stand for Mistake Edition?

 

Malware Edition ?

[FishCustard]

We've still got a windows 95 machine in DT, the miller can't be connected to anything better than windows 98 without buying a new one, and they don't use it much (once a year I think)

 

Why is that?! Driver issue? (oh god... drivers on Win 95, that brought back horrible memories)

If it only does that then upgrading isn't much of an issue, I guess - the only issue would be hardware failure, but I suppose you can always transfer the machine image to something more modern.

 

I wonder if 95 would run on a Core i-series...?

 

As for ME, it was the OS on our very first home PC. Only issue I remember is a better-than-decent chance of a BSOD when installing pretty much anything, hardware or software!