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re: ME upgrade to XP
Thursday, January 9, 2003 at 9:25 am
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Posted by Jean-Pierre (12 messages posted)

Hi All, I have read all the posts in reply to my original question, and in conclusion I find it all very confusing. There are as many different opinions as they are replies. So far, I have been running windows ME for approximately a year; it took me a long time to get used to it, but in conclusion, I have to say the problems of upgrading from ME to XP are numerous and conflicting, especially when it comes to hardware compatibility. I asked the question in the first place as I wanted to stay ahead of the new Microsoft's policies which, after a while, let go of their support for the older versions. e.g. 3.2, 95 and soon 98. I now believe that once used to it, ME is quite reliable, less costly in resources, and gives the opportunity to create restore points, should something go wrong; I think I will stick with ME, upgrade from 256 to 512Mb of Ram and accept it as it is. As someone pointed out, ME is still of the Windows' family. Thank you all for having given your comments on this subject. Jean-Pierre.-

On Wednesday, January 8, 2003 at 1:40 pm, Pierre wrote:
>I have come to regret upgrading to XP from ME. While rebuilding the wireless networks
>and installing McAfee 2003 anti-virus/firewall, I lost all connection to the internet
>and had to work for 4 hour with a technician to get it back. In the meantime, XP
>created networks which are uncessary and cannot be eliminated. In all the whole
>machine is slower.
>
>I would add a question of my own. If I unistalled XP down to ME, and then reinstall
>XP (as it is required for the wireless network), would the new networks set up by
>XP during the original mess be eliminated? I could then recreate the wireless network
>without using the XP functionalities.
>
>Pierre
>
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