[pr-man]

Ok I have been running WindowsME final release for 2 weeks now and by all accounts its ok, it crashes much less than win98 and seems a little faster especially the boot times but one thing that is pissing me off is that it leaks memory like a fiend. If I let the computer just run for a couple of hours doing nothing and then run sandra 2000 out of 192 megs of physical ram I have 0% left!!! WTF, also for some stupid reason windows is only creating a 75 meg swap file (ok thats wierd) Any suggestions? or should I just got back to Win2k pro

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***TRUST YOUR TECHNOLUST***

[DosFreak]

Just go back to NT5.

[Svision]

i've had the exact same problem.
I was stupid enough to try out WinME.
Well, i'm back to win2k now. that's all i can say

[ras]

WINME is for your mom and nan and people who buy there pcs from wallmart!!!!!! stick to a proper os WINDOWS 2000.

[Four and Twenty]

if you run games run winme on the side it is the current os for gamming

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My System
Dell Demension XPS T500
Dual Boot Windows 2000 Pro / Windows ME Beta 3
PIII @ 500 Mhz (with after market heatsink and dual fan)
128 Megs PC133 Ram
TNT2 Ultra Graphics Card (with the core and memory overclocked by 20 Mhz and dual voodoo coolers)
3Com 10/100 Ethernet Card
3Com 56k Modem
12.6 Gig IBM HD
40X CD Rom Drive
100 Mb Zip Drive

[thibs]

WinME ... you switch from Win2K Pro to WinME ?!!!
That's insane ... I'll never talk to you again ... ever !
;-)

[jdulmage]

screw going back to win2k or staying with winme..I have 224 MB of RAM using cacheman at http://www.outertech.com and it runs WinME like a charm...but if you really want to go to Win2k..hell going Windows Whistler pre-beta..it's a hell of alot better even though it's a pre-beta...it runs better than 2000 and is way much better

[Down8]

I would go back to w2kpro. I have had no problems with games [quake3, unreal tourney, diablo2]. I did just read an article baout whistler being better than 2k in the benchmarks, but why play with a beta?

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- brian@infinitejones.com

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Home built system:             Also, just for fun:
Soyo SY-7VCA                   AST Bravo LC 4/66d
[VIA T82C694X]                 Intel 486 CPU
[onboard sound]                40 MB RAM
PIII 500E [flip chip]          500 MB Conner Hdd
PNY 128 MB PC100 RAM           3 1/2, 5 1/4, 2x CD
Stealth III S540               3com Etherlink II
3com Etherlink III             Adaptec AHA-1545 SCSI
Quantum Fireball 10.3 GB Hdd   [to host some files on:]
HP A4331D 20" Monitor          1.3 GB internal Seagate
Win2K Pro [v5.00.2195, SP-1]   2 2 GB external Seagate
[format => clean install]      Windows 95 [v4.00.1111]
Covad DSL [shared]             pcAnywhere 9.2
                               [so I can leave it in the closet]