I was just barely exiting puberty and my mom installed Windows ME on the family computer over the vastly superior Windows98SE. When I tried to play warcraft it kept crashing...little did I know ME had its DOS neutered. I averaged 4 or more BSODs a day, and games were extremely unstable. A year later I got 2000 installed and never looked back, I still have nightmares of not being able to play warcraft II.

bought a laptop with it on, for some odd reason the touch pad had less functionality (couldn't tap) and it had overheating issues. I thought it was just a bad laptop until i installed xubuntu over the top of it. Windows ME was a pretty horrible OS but it did the job i guess.

Yeah, used it for about 1 month then reloaded Windows 95, didn't upgrade again until Windows 98SE.

Yeah. I'm working overseas. Back at the turn of the century (I love saying that), I took my old PC (600 MHz PII Celeron, 256K RAM) home after I upgraded to 1GHz Athlon. Installed ME on it. I figured mey wife would have fewer problems with ME than SE.

She's not a particularly demanding user - primary use is internet and email. It had no problems keeping up with a 2.5 Mbit cable connection, and it ran without faults for three years.

What finally led to its retirement was that one of my sisters-in-law installed the FULL McAfee security suite. The poor thing took 6 minutes to boot to the desktop after that.

Yea, used it for a while between 98 and xp. It worked fine for me, iirc, I really don't remember a lot of problems. I'd say the rumors of it's suckiness were greatly exaggerated, though I have no doubt there were some real problems for some users.

Every home/consumer MS OS before XP was crash prone BTW.

yeah ME was shocking, worked on a pc, pluged in a usb mouse and it game me the horid application error - close error, never worked again lol, useless crap.

AAARRRGGGHHH!!! That's what I think of ME.....had to use it while trying to fix my grandpa's laptop. Man, it was actually more annoying and useless than Vista! I agree with previous poster, it's got to be the worst OS in M$ history.

i have no issues with vista, actually upgraded my home pc to vista without issues, and my work pc months ago and i must say it grows on me and i love it.

Great story when ME came out through an offer from Microsoft you were able to order the upgrade version for like $60 and it was to be delivered to you on the day it came out. I had a PO Box and it did not arrive on it's debut day.
So I called MS the next day, telling them I didn't get my ME upgrade, I was overnighted a copy and reimbursed for the order. I received the first one a week later. I ended up with 2 copies of ME upgrade for free.
It wasn't long before I bought an oem copy of MS Windows 98SE and killed off the ME install.
I still have one of the copies here in my office, in the box, never opened.
Back when I had Satellite internet and a 2 cpu computer I used NT4 and the W2K. After the cable company hung fiber across my back yard I went to XP Pro. After XP SP2 I stopped using W2K.

lol.....I know Vista really isn't ALL that bad, just that I'm not used to it and I can't stand the annoying "Do you really want to do ______?" box that keeps coming up. I've only used it on a couple of friend's computers so far, but soon I may get it for myself once I see how many new games are going to be Vista only........

I installed Windows ME for a friend but never really used it. It must of had some major issues since it never really took off like Windows 98 or Xp.

There is also allot being said about Vista at the moment. But I'm running 64 Bit Vista Ultimate with no problems.

All my games work and SLi performance is way better than XP on my rig

I recall no notable issues with WinME, and do remember that it fixed some stability problems I was having in Win98 when I upgraded over it. I think my old Twinhead laptop had ME too, and it didn't give me any trouble there either.
Hopefully I'll be able to skip Vista for whatever comes next, but if not, that UAC will be the first to go...

i know someone who was actually using ME as a primary OS up until 2005! absolute horror show!

i did. i dont know why i did. but it was very brief till i changed it to 2000. well, now im using xp.