RE: Windows XP upgrade issues resolved

["Westdorp, Tom" <Tom.Westdorp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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An ME CD in a microwave, on high, for 2sec, produces as interesting a show
as an AOL CD at the same setting.  Do NOT try that at home!

ME was just to solidify Windows place in the market, so it fit right between
WindowsCE and WindowsNT to unify the product line into Windows CEMENT.

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard B Baird [mailto:rbaird@esourceconsulting.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 10:24 AM
To: midrange-nontech@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Windows XP upgrade issues resolved



Jeff,

I've never heard of anyone NOT having problems with ME.  what a waste of a
good CD and packageing materials.

Have you ever tried to back up (to CD burner) 20 gig of data with no mouse,
and only 640x480 screen resolution?   it ain't pretty.

Richard B Baird wrote:

> I'd been through my 5th Dell tech in three weeks, trying to remove WinME
> and install Win98 on a reletively new box.  I'd tried ME for about a
month
> when I bought the box, but had a ton of problems, ending with the box
> completely disabled - no display drivers, no mouse support.  It was a
mess.

That's where I was afraid I was heading with ME.  We'd had the computer
for about a year, with performance steadily worsening.  Kids installing
games, etc.  So I decided to reinstall ME and that only made it worse.
After that the scanner no longer worked.  I'd already removed ME from
all desktops at work because it sucked and decided if I was going to
change I might as well go whole hog.  It's only been a short time, but
XP Pro seems at least as stable as W2K, for whatever _that's_ worth.

Shucks, if Mickeysoft keeps working at it, they'll be at the reliability
of the S/36 of 25 years ago before you know it!

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