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Re: Modern version
07/02/21 01:19 PM
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> I gave ME one try, and it trashed my partition table. Obviously went back to 98SE at
> that point and stayed there until 2000/XP.
I didn't really have much trouble with ME with my Pentium 166, except for not being able to properly access DOS from within Windows unlike 98 where you could restart in DOS mode (with ME, the only way to run pure DOS was via boot disk). I eventually wiped it after about 2 years and went back to 98SE so it wasn't such a pain to run DOS games (the original release of GTA1 ran faster in DOS than Windows for example). For a while that PC had a 98SE/ME hybrid where I had manually updated a lot of the programs to their ME versions (including the Windows ME Explorer layouts which were a bit better than the 98 style).
But yeah, ME was a dead end for Microsoft, it's not something which should have even existed as a commercial (paid) product IMO. Maybe as a final Windows 98 update but not killing off "WinDOS" like it did. Windows 2000 was already out, ran infinitely better on anything that wasn't a potato in Y2K computing (such as my Pentium 166) and had a better file system than FAT32.
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