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by david_grant

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I am running win me on a hp pavillion computer that is about 3 years old. alot of my ME compatible programs just don't show graphics properly. IE 6.0 is also missing alot of the enhanced graphics when on different web sites. My HP Printer when printing from online only prints the middle of the text cutting off the left and right margins. I've downloaded and installed all MS patches and new drivers for my printer. I would like to downgrade to windows 98 SE. any suggestions or recommendations on this issue?

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by sfc_gijoe

Windows ME is more of a multimedia upgrade than anything else. It can take up a lot of your system resourses. Make sure you have enough RAM. Also check to see if you color is set to 16,24 or 32 bit and not 256. If Win98SE was running fine for you before I would go back to it. Use your HP restore disk to start over. I never upgraded my home computers to Me. It wasn't worth the money & effort for what it gave you.

by thechas

If you choose to change to an older OS, the best way to do this is to wipe (format) the hard drive and start over from scratch.

There is no way to downgrade an OS and not loose all of your installed programs.

I would review the specs on the laptop, and weigh upgrading to XP before downgrading.

I have been happier than expected with XP.

Chas

by tstobbe

If you want 98 back, you can either ghost your HD with another one or burn the important stuff to a cd, then format and reinstall 98. I wouldn't use xp yet, it hasn't proven to be stable.

by pinoy_teknik

About your IE, i think there is no problem regarding to that, because all web page have different design and layout. So if i am going to print some webpages, i need to edit it to my word processor, with the aid of the MS-WORD I can preview my document...

By the way your issue is IE 6 new features. is like you are using ie5, co'z in ie5 there is no print preview there, buy ie6 it have.

Somehow you don't preview it, that's why it occur's.

Hope this idea can help!!

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