I have been donated to a Windows ME CD.
It is a Dell CD, and I'd appreciate any pointers/suggestions before I play around with it.
I was thinking of installing it either on my old Pentium, or on the clunky old IBM server.
Windows ME
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Re: Wndows ME
Windows ME (subject of your post) or Windows CE (body of your post)?
Best wishes,
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Re: Wndows ME
ME, Fixed. Thanks :eagleeyes:HansV wrote:Windows ME (subject of your post) or Windows CE (body of your post)?
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Re: Windows ME
Frankly, I'd throw the CD away, or use it as a coaster. Windows ME was one of Microsoft's weaker efforts - its predecessor Windows 98 SE and its successor Windows XP were much better.
Best wishes,
Hans
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Re: Wndows ME
If it is a Dell CD then ME is an OEM version that is supposed to be installed only on the original hardware on which it was originally installed. Any other use is a license violation. That said, I doubt that anyone really cares about a copy of ME. I concur with Hans about throwing it out.ChrisGreaves wrote:ME, Fixed. Thanks :eagleeyes:
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Re: Windows ME
I have a BOXED copy of ME here in one of my desk drawers, just waiting for a old clunker to come by for me to NOT use it.
I am so far behind, I think I am First
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Re: Windows ME
Dave,
You could send your copy to Chris and he could make one of these.
You could send your copy to Chris and he could make one of these.
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Re: Windows ME
Win 9.x is far from dead, there are dedicated geeks out there stretching it as far as they can. You can follow all their antics here:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=8
and on the child board here:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=91
I started reading those boards when I got locked out of 'the other place' when it first moved to IPB2 and because (as some of you may recall) my main home PC for many years has been a Win 98FE box I put together myself back in 1998. I recently retired this as the main home PC but I intend to rebuild it with as many bells & whistles as I can from the above repositories of ancient lore.
As for what to do with an ME CD, your best option is to use it in conjunction with a Win 98SE CD and an unofficial 'update' called 98SE2ME, which 'patches' 98SE with the bits of ME that are worth having (as Hans said, ME was a bit of a dud).
Alternatively, mail it to me because I also have an old pre-installed Packard Bell OEM ME box sitting around (irritating Mrs Stuck) that I'd like to revive but for which I have no ME master CD.
Ken
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=8
and on the child board here:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=91
I started reading those boards when I got locked out of 'the other place' when it first moved to IPB2 and because (as some of you may recall) my main home PC for many years has been a Win 98FE box I put together myself back in 1998. I recently retired this as the main home PC but I intend to rebuild it with as many bells & whistles as I can from the above repositories of ancient lore.
As for what to do with an ME CD, your best option is to use it in conjunction with a Win 98SE CD and an unofficial 'update' called 98SE2ME, which 'patches' 98SE with the bits of ME that are worth having (as Hans said, ME was a bit of a dud).
Alternatively, mail it to me because I also have an old pre-installed Packard Bell OEM ME box sitting around (irritating Mrs Stuck) that I'd like to revive but for which I have no ME master CD.
Ken
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Re: Windows ME
I understand they make "challenging" targets if fired from a clay pigeon trap...ChrisGreaves wrote:I have been donated to a Windows ME CD.
It is a Dell CD, and I'd appreciate any pointers/suggestions before I play around with it.
I was thinking of installing it either on my old Pentium, or on the clunky old IBM server.
John
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Re: Windows ME
That they do indeed.jonwallace wrote:I understand they make "challenging" targets if fired from a clay pigeon trap...ChrisGreaves wrote:I have been donated to a Windows ME CD.
It is a Dell CD, and I'd appreciate any pointers/suggestions before I play around with it.
I was thinking of installing it either on my old Pentium, or on the clunky old IBM server.
They are also good to hang from a tree branch and let the wind swing them around. You have to be a good shot or use a shotgun.
Another use is to tack a few on the side of your house to scare away woodpeckers and discourage them from thinking your siding is a tasty morsel.
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Re: Windows ME
I had a co-worker friend when I worked at KET Television who saved everyone's outdated CDs and when he got a large collection of them he hung them in overlapping fashion on his office wall, shiny side out. Made a conversation piece "mirror."