Can I not use Windows ME on my new DIMENSION 3000????

With ANY version of Windows, if the chipset manufacturer does not provide the
drivers required by that version, the system will simply not function at 100%.
This is true for Windows ME or any other version of Windows. And for Linux, for
that matter.

Windows ME is either an aardvark or a platypus, depending on ones grasp of
biology. It cannot be booted to the DOS command prompt like 95/98, IIRC. It
introduces more 32-bit NT-ish stuff than Win 98, but still retains a lot of the
DOS-based artifacts including inferior memory management, both program memory
and the restricted Windows'-own memory (user, GDI).

Of course, since I have not pried into Windows ME very much lately, my own
memory management may be a little inferior and I can't recall all the
differences between 98 and ME. I just know enough to avoid ME, a short-lived
aberration, as even some Micro$ofties will attest... Ben Myers

 

I thought WinMe was the first Win9X to use the 'non-real' DOS (emulation)...
? (And that Win98 was the last to provide 'real' DOS).

A subject I don't fully understand to this day though I use whatever each
provides.....


Stew

 

Windows Me 'hid' its DOS underpinnings by removing the reboot to DOS menu.
Still could be done, but you had to fight a bit to do it. Win Me, in
theory, could use Windows 2000 WDM drivers, so it was supposed to be
compatible, but they were wildly flaky -- like Me itself.

 

I see why you all want to keep XP. But if I could install ME on my laptop
or

Have you tried using the Program Compatibility Wizard? If your not familiar
with it forces XP to resemble one of the older operating systems. (We have
an ancient program that worked fine in 98SE but refused to run in ME. With
XP we are able to get it running again. It's an old desktop publisher and no
one has the time to sit around and port all the individual pages over to
Word or whatever, easier to just print the pages out using this ancient
program called Spellbinder.)

Anyway to start the Program Compatibility Wizard, click Start, click Help
and Support, click Find compatible hardware and software for Windows XP, and
then, under See Also in the navigation pane, click Program Compatibility
Wizard.

If compatibility problems prevent you from installing a program on Windows
XP, run the Program Compatibility Wizard on the setup file for the program.
The file might be called Setup.exe or something similar, and is probably
located on the Installation disc for the program.

Now I used ME for years, but look closely. Internet Explorer 7 is due out
this summer and the upgrade will NOT work on ANY older operating system. So
you will only shooting yourself in the foot by re-installing ME. (My
opinion.)

 

OK, here's help: Don't do such a silly thing.

 

Nobody is getting personal about YOU. Just Me... Ben Myers

 

Good, thanks for the reassurance.

 

There's no "I" in team, but there's a "Me". I understand it blue screens
and locks up there as well.

 

biology. It cannot be booted to the DOS command prompt like 95/98, IIRC.
It

Well yes and no. Actually it could if you patched the OS.

Drop-to-DOS was never really disabled; the option was simply eliminated as
an option on the shut-down screen. My old laptop was an ME computer &
patched to drop-to-DOS and functioned just like Win98.