I don't know why people slag ME so much. I used it for 18 months without a problem. I would advise turning off system restore though.

Spent the last two months on XP only. Before that I was dual boot XP / ME so I could play some older games.

Fuzzy, why turn off system restore?

System restore on ME certainly did slow some things down.

Fuzzy Logic,

I wasn't really "slagging" Windows ME - just didn't work great for me.

System Restore causes more problems than it solves. If you use restore some programs will stop working. In particular Norton Antivirus is totally shagged by it. It will also, rather stupidly, save viruses for you, which are then a pain to eliminate because of course you can't directly delete files from the restore folder as they are protected by Windows. If you use restore which has a quarantined virus in there it will quite cheerfully restore the virus to full working order. If you are not careful it will eat up the whole of your hard drive with its numerous restore points. And finally, it doesn't actually restore anything of use.

Use System Restore and you will most likely find yourself restoring from backup - so it's better to do that in the first place!

The only time I used System Restore was to correct a minor problem with a printer driver. The System Restore messed up so bad a clean install was the only cure. Never again! Since then I make sure I always have a full backup to use if required. a minimum of three - one on the drive, one on a second drive and one on CD. Peace at last...

I'm on a network providing support for VPN's and such so there are 98 - XP Pro installs, though I refused to keep Win2k SP3 installed because it is such a hoze bag. Personally I run XP Pro on this system and also Win2K on my Compaq laptop and XP Pro on my Dell laptop.

Though on this system, it seems that ObjectDesktop for the most part decides when it will or will not run. It has to be something with the odd ball configuration and all of the drives and such I am having to load up. Anyway, the long way around to the answer

XP Pro

I also did a system restore due to a glitch with a printer driver. Worked fine for just that!

Thanks Fuxxy. I guess I'll look and see how to shut System Restore off.

Use XP Pro, was told it has better stability, and any extra security never hurts. Went from Win98se, and after a little adjustment, love it. The best thing is that I got to give a great farewell to the dreaded blue screen of death!

Dos was boss.
95 came alive.
98...a little too late!
2K saved the day.
XP?...we'll see.

Linux...ummmm, I can't think of a rhyme right now.

I upgraded to XP Home last Nov. from Win98Se, so far I've had no problems and I'm very happy with it.

OS? What OS? I feed the squirrel thats running the wheels inside the box. Is that an OS?

Fuzzy....I have deleted individual restore points on my system [XP]....and have used the restore once [successfully], so that's 100% success rate...

Did I ever mention that ZTreeWin is a great file manager?...

Not tried the one on XP - I was referring to ME That system restore is a complete disaster waiting to happen.