The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #81450   Message #1492031
Posted By: Richard Bridge
24-May-05 - 12:14 PM
Thread Name: Tech: Windows ME help, please!
Subject: RE: Tech: Windows ME help, please!
That file is not on my ME system either.

Now, me, I'm with good Ned Ludd and Captain Swing, and will not use XP until I absolutely have to and even then I may take a deep breath and try Linux first. I've got 3 machines running fine (ish) on a network, one with 95, one with 98SE and the other with ME.

No-one has yet convinced me XP is not full of spyware. Certainly a friend of mine running a hooky XP (personally, I don't do that) has just been bombed by an XP update that had a grenade in it and it has really freaked most of his system, he can't even get into some of his data files by using his existing drive as a slave on another machine...

I have another friend who had a 98 system that worked fine. It was nicked and with his insurance money he got an XPsystem and I have lost count of the afternoons I have wasted formatting C for him since. He could maintain his own system in 98 - but XP beats him (and he has a 2:1 in phlosophy as well) although I have to say that since we stopped trying to use other antivirus and bought him Panda (which I also use because neither Norton nor McAfee works properly with Outlook) and put him on Mozilla his machine has mostly worked.