to install, or not to install...
witch:
I don't go purely on what the b/f says, I look things up on the net for confirmation. WinME is as buggy and unreliable as all the other windows OS's. :P WinME had a hurried release, got rid of DOS and has no extra features apart from a few more drivers, nothing that would have prompted me to upgrade to it when I was on win98.
Do you use WinME? If so, why? I guess it might be better on a lower resource machine.
Hook:
Quote from: witch on 2005 September 29, 04:20:29
I don't go purely on what the b/f says, I look things up on the net for confirmation. WinME is as buggy and unreliable as all the other windows OS's. :P WinME had a hurried release, got rid of DOS and has no extra features apart from a few more drivers, nothing that would have prompted me to upgrade to it when I was on win98.
Do you use WinME? If so, why? I guess it might be better on a lower resource machine.
Buggy and unreliable as all the other Windows... Hell, I agree! I use it because it came with the computer I bought. I did not attempt to upgrade my Win 98 computer with ME, I just left it with Win 98. And I'm not going to attempt to upgrade my ME computer.
The computer running WinME isn't exactly a high-spec machine (and wasn't 4 years ago when I purchased it), which is probably a good reason not to try to upgrade the OS. But I haven't had any more problems running ME than 98 or 95 when I had machines running those. And at least WinME runs all the software I own, something I doubt I could say with XP.
Don't upgrade to ME, it's not worth it. But upgrading to XP might not be worth it either, which you've already had some experience with. The next computer you buy will come with XP (or Longhorn) installed, which will at least save you the hassle of installing it yourself. Worry about using XP then, not now.
Hook
Ness:
and that's basically what I've decided...
although, my husband can be a bit like a dog with a bone over these things - even though we've put 98 back onto this computer, he's thinking of giving XP another bash when we hear back from ATI tech support over the driver issues...
he seems to be thinking that it will make the home network a little easier to maintain - I'm not convinced anything is worth the hassle this proved to be!
but at least for now I have my sims working again!
Ness
witch:
Quote from: ness on 2005 September 29, 05:36:36
but at least for now I have my sims working again!
well, that's the most important thing! ;D
DrBeast:
Just a quickie: what brand is the graphics card? I'm not refering to the chipset it uses, I mean the manufacturer.
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