I'm not up on ME, since I don't use it; but there are a number of "compatibility upgrades" available for various Windows versions. ME has been around long enough that they may have something for PIP, especially since they're both Micke$oft programs.

Most of the compatibility fixes tend to be for "game programs," so I tend not to pay much attention to them. They have come up with a couple of "real world" things, but they relate to pretty specific program problems.

If you're "new to programming," I'd suggest at least a quick look at what's available in online software support - if only for future reference. If you go to "microsoft.com" you can click into the knowledge base, which has a fairly decent search engine to locate stuff in whatever area you're interested in. (The url to go directly to the KB is about 3 lines long, so it's better - at first - just to remember that you can get there without remembering it.)
Note too, that "back in the olden days," Dell had a reputation for "tweaking" other people's software before they loaded it on their machines - so that many of us (justifiably or not) don't really trust a Dell OEM version to be "the real thing." They may have meant "the Dell version of PIP has a problem with the Dell version of ME." Their stuff usually works ok on their machines, but I've known people to have a lot of grief trying to port their "familiar Dell supplied" programs to new machines when they replaced an old Dell with a new machine from another builder.

Note that this shouldn't be taken to mean that Dell doesn't make fine machinery - just that sometimes using a Dell means you may have to get your support from Dell - which is what most people who have them will expect to do anyway.

John