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what about winme??

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by mreham

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I wanted to ask what is the difference in win ME from win2k ???

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by barmaley

First thing comes to mind
ME is not secure
ME doesn't support NTFS
Interface is similars though

by lju

In my experience with Windows ME, it is less stable than Windows 2000. A machine that came factory installed with Windows ME and good hardware crashed constantly, after installing Windows 2000 its been very stable. Also, the whole "Windows ME vs Windows 2k" topic is like comparing Windows 98 to Windows NT 4.0. Windows 2000 is the next step of the NT kernel, while Windows ME is the next step of the 9x kernel. Many people argue that Windows ME is for gamers, but I don't have any problems running my games in Windows 2000 Professional. Windows XP which is coming out later this year will (hopefully) combine both of these tracks for a highly stable and "robust" O/S.

by boschke

I personally have no experience with ME, though I do know that it seems to have some serious problems...

2k is the successor of the NT4.0 OS. It is aimed more at the corporate market, though a private user - like myself - can still make good useof it. On the downside, not all consumer hardware manufacturers supply (or even make) drivers for win2K. This means that when buying something for your PC, win2k support should be checked.

ME is the OS that is aimed more at the private user, with better game support, and generally more frills.

I know of no one running ME that is satisfied with it. One person I know complains that ME appears to be suffering from memory leaks, making it impossible to even move the mouse after two days of continuous operation on a Pentium III (!), and another person I know even claims to have had a 'partition leak', where ME seems to have written over the edges of it's partition, erasing or overwriting the adjoining (Linux) partition...

Well, thesewere my two cents.

All the best!

Boschke

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