Let those who have used it in real life comment on it. I have not had the good fortune to own or even test it. But I think the name "Windows Me" or longe name "Windows Mistake Edition" says it all. And, of course, it will soon be 22 years since it appeared, so what more can we talk about. (Windows Mistake Edition was released on February 17, 2000). Besides, on our side usually not talking badly about the dead.
Speaking about the dead I have a client, that bought from me few AMD K6 III Machines running WinME Those machines are still running today, and that in 20 years never had a single HW or SW problem. Surely ME wasn't the most brilliant OS ever, but parroting stereotypes like a lot of people loves to do, isn't the most brilliant things to do, either.
<OT> IIRC, ME was a short-lived and minor upgrade of 98SE. It was still DOS under the hood, like all Win9X versions. It was released about a year before XP, which was the first NT based Windows to be released to the mass market. XP was rock solid in comparison, and may be one of the reasons ME received so much negative press. </OT>
At this tool Win 11 Boot And Upgrade FiX KiT when you unzippped it guide you to put the win11 install.wid/esd file into win10 folder? Is this a mistake? I have the win11 iso file i download from the official ms site. So to which folder i put this iso file?
If you downloaded the Windows 11 ISO from the OFFICIAL Windows Site, then put it in the W11 folder and use option 2... When that completes, unzip the FIXED ISO then it is now ready for install or upgrade from your current OS...
@fits79 Heavy sigh. You are confusing what it does with how to use it. Option 2 requires only a Win 11 iso.
Have you even read previous posts in this thread? (#4) Forget kmspico, it is seriously obsolete. Use KMS tools cited above. Or massgravel will get you permanent activation.
google search massgravel on github. win 11 activation is same as win 10 "********** gen mk6" is a bit older
Okay, that made me curious. What in the billy-blue-blazes could anyone be doing with an "AMD K6 III machine"? Those computers would be so far beyond obsolete that I cannot imagine any useful function that they could perform.
I have clients that are still using some Apple IIs to control automated scales in production. Z80 and 6502 cpus derivatives are still sold today and widely used. Not all PCs are used for AAA gaming or to share idiocy on Facebook. You don't need a 10kg hammer to open a peanut.
About a year back, a chemistry grad student I know was scrounging 3.5" diskettes, for use with an MS-DOS pc-clone running a lab instrument. Not enough funding to upgrade the instrument or software. A totally offline machine, so he needed the diskettes to copy off data. I imagine this is not uncommon in research labs.
Well, they only needed Windows Me as a bridge to XP. Originally, they had a Windows 2000 Home Edition in the works (dubbed "Windows Neptune"), but it was canceled. That's why there is only a Windows 2000 Professional. Me has MS-DOS 8.00 AFAIK, but it is seriously crippled and hidden from access. Win98SE's MS-DOS 7.10 was still fully usable. Didn't or doesn't the military still use Floppies and punch cards? Still having many 3.5", 5.25" and even one 8" Floppy still around.
Simply they hoped to have some universal Home/Pro/Enterprise OS, but as usual, they were late, so they ended with a plan B, pushing WinME and Win2000 as a temporary solution (and frankly W2K sp0 was way worse than WinME) then XP reunited the families taking the best of both worlds (say the system restore was taken from wim me, not win2k) But to be fair ME displeased the power users more because the hidden dos rather than for instability, while the early Win2k was a real pain, because the lack of refinement and the lack of drivers, and because the way higher system requirements for the common HW of the time.
Yes, Restore (PCHEALTH) first appeared in Win Me, I still remember the _RESTORE directory. And, the users always wondered where their precious HDD space went. If I remember correctly, they crippled the memory management of DOS (using HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE for accessing HMA/UMB, XMS and LIM EMS), it was not usable beyond creating the rescue boot floppy. Early Win2K had poor DirectX support, many games didn't run correctly or crashed. Plus, there suddenly was a HAL so the games from 9x couldn't access the hardware directly anymore (which was common in DOS and the 9x versions and actually the real cause of instability). Another issue was the new system file protection, it limited installation choices and prevented software from overwriting system components. Games relying on specific versions didn't like that. The result? DLL hell. I think that was enough Offtopic, I'm going to stop now (fearing the wrath of the admins).