Operating Systems

[Paladin2000]

IMO, WinME is not much of an improvement over 98SE. Plus, it is bloated and used up more RAM. You either go with 98SE or WinXP.

For compatibility with all those older games, 98SE is the obvious choice.

Otherwise, upgrade it to XP. Since it is still quite "new", M$ will continue to support it for years to come, even after they launched longhorn or whatever blows old Bill's horn.

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[ 02-26-2004, 12:52 AM: Message edited by: Paladin2000 ]

[Firestormalpha]

I personally have XP pro. And I agree with many of my friends that ME was microsofts last minute grab at your wallets before they put out XP.

[Albromor]

Windows ME is just another way of saying "The Blue Screen of Death." Go with XP.

[Target]

Dose anyone know when Leghorn comes out and any idea what it will be like?

[ryaldin]

I found that if you've got a lower level of RAM than 256, XP tends to lag big time. I was trying to run WCIII of a 600MHz, 192 (i think) MB RAM pc, and it would just choke the whole system up. Regrettably, I switched to 98, and my games started working fine again. I miss XP tho

[Bahamut]

Originally posted by Target: Dose anyone know when Leghorn comes out and any idea what it will be like?

LOL it is Longhorn... [img]smile.gif[/img] It won't be out anytime soon so you can still go for XP if you want

[Aelia Jusa]

Originally posted by ryaldin: I found that if you've got a lower level of RAM than 256, XP tends to lag big time. I was trying to run WCIII of a 600MHz, 192 (i think) MB RAM pc, and it would just choke the whole system up. Regrettably, I switched to 98, and my games started working fine again. I miss XP tho

I didn't find that at all. We ran XP for probably 1 year before upgrading to 256 from 128 and had no speed or performance issues. I also agree with Thoran that unless you're networking or such, there's no need to use Pro instead of Home. Pro is much more expensive and no better for a home computer (probably why it's called 'Home' ).

[The Fallen One]

Originally posted by Link: I use Windows XP Professional Edition. ME just sucks, so you should definitely change that operating system to something like 2000 or XP. I'm happy with XP Pro so far, but also very curious to what "Leghorn" will turn out to be.

i think its called Longhorn [img]tongue.gif[/img]

EDIT: Oops, didnt know Bahamut posted since i didnt realize that there was a 2nd page and btw LongHorn is scheduled to come out around 2005-2006

[ 02-26-2004, 05:06 PM: Message edited by: The Fallen One ]

[Target]

Longhorn Leghorn must have been a Freudian slip!!

[Felix The Assassin]

Originally posted by Firestormalpha: I personally have XP pro. And I agree with many of my friends that ME was microsofts last minute grab at your wallets before they put out XP.

Keep this thought in mind. I just wonder if this will be your thought about XP in a couple when "Longhorn" blows in. For Win XP is only an enhanced code, without DOS direct support. WinMe was the first attempt at a GUI without direct DOS to the "Normal" user.