98 vs. ME as Second OS
Hello guys and gals! I was wondering if I may be able to get a bit of advice from all the friendly folk out there. I'm going to be installing WinXP Pro onto my box in a few days (after Christmas). But I want to keep a 9x OS around for compatibility purposes (Final Fantasy VII <grin>).
Hello guys and gals!
I was wondering if I may be able to get a bit of advice from all the friendly folk out there.
I'm going to be installing WinXP Pro onto my box in a few days (after Christmas). But I want to keep a 9x OS around for compatibility purposes (Final Fantasy VII <grin>).
I'm going to be using PartitionMagic 7.0 to manage by multiple OSes.
So I'd just like to pose the question to all of you: Which would be the better second OS to keep around, 98se or ME?
Personally, I've had some bad experiences with Windows ME becoming quite unstable (even to the point of it crashing on its very first boot after install). But I've heard that with proper tweaking, it can become a good OS. Can anyone offer any support or refutation to this?
Also, another thing I'd like to know: Does ME provide any bonus, or added features over 98se? Is anything taken away, or lost from 98se?
Are there any tweaks that would improve stability or performance on either OS? How about the order I install my drivers, etc. in? Would these things make a big difference, or is that mostly wives' tales and hype that order of install matters?
Now, I know that this topic can get quite heated, so I'd like to personally ask everyone to keep this to a cool and reasonable discussion, hehe. Can you guys do that for me...flames scare me
Thank you very much, in advance, for your advice, opinions, and help!
--Poxnor
AMD T-Bird 1.4 GHz (266)
Asus A7M266 Motherboard (AMD Northbridge, Via Southbridge)
256 Megs PC2100 DDR(266) RAM
SBLive 5.1 Dolby Digital
Creative Labs GraphicsBlaster RivaTNT
Plextor PlexWriter 16/10/40A
Umm, that's about all the important hardware I can think of, if it matters...drop a line if the hardware of my computer is going to play an important role in the 98se vs. ME debate, and I can post more specifics
I was wondering if I may be able to get a bit of advice from all the friendly folk out there.
I'm going to be installing WinXP Pro onto my box in a few days (after Christmas). But I want to keep a 9x OS around for compatibility purposes (Final Fantasy VII <grin>).
I'm going to be using PartitionMagic 7.0 to manage by multiple OSes.
So I'd just like to pose the question to all of you: Which would be the better second OS to keep around, 98se or ME?
Personally, I've had some bad experiences with Windows ME becoming quite unstable (even to the point of it crashing on its very first boot after install). But I've heard that with proper tweaking, it can become a good OS. Can anyone offer any support or refutation to this?
Also, another thing I'd like to know: Does ME provide any bonus, or added features over 98se? Is anything taken away, or lost from 98se?
Are there any tweaks that would improve stability or performance on either OS? How about the order I install my drivers, etc. in? Would these things make a big difference, or is that mostly wives' tales and hype that order of install matters?
Now, I know that this topic can get quite heated, so I'd like to personally ask everyone to keep this to a cool and reasonable discussion, hehe. Can you guys do that for me...flames scare me
Thank you very much, in advance, for your advice, opinions, and help!
--Poxnor
AMD T-Bird 1.4 GHz (266)
Asus A7M266 Motherboard (AMD Northbridge, Via Southbridge)
256 Megs PC2100 DDR(266) RAM
SBLive 5.1 Dolby Digital
Creative Labs GraphicsBlaster RivaTNT
Plextor PlexWriter 16/10/40A
Umm, that's about all the important hardware I can think of, if it matters...drop a line if the hardware of my computer is going to play an important role in the 98se vs. ME debate, and I can post more specifics
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as for my ME install it just sits there for EXTREME cases.
That's all my ME install did for the month or two before I upgraded to XP at which point I got rid of it and vowed no 9x OS will ever be installed on my machine and any machine I build in the future.
as for my ME install it just sits there for EXTREME cases.
That's all my ME install did for the month or two before I upgraded to XP at which point I got rid of it and vowed no 9x OS will ever be installed on my machine and any machine I build in the future.
