When you have been running a system that long, there are things that you can do to recover some of its performance. While adding memory might help a little, Windows ME runs quite well with just 128MB of memory and very well with 256MB. So memory is not your problem on that system (unless you switch to XP).

Sometimes you can buy a faster processor, but they may be hard to find now and a bit expensive. Then there is the question of does the system board support a faster P-III. You might buy a faster disk drive, but to make sure it works with a system that old you need to find one under 60GB, and it might NOT buy you much speed.

If still using a dialup, new updated device drivers for the modem or even a new decent cheap modem might make a difference.

The one thing you can do is give the software a good cleaning out of junk log files and old programs. And cleaning out Internet Explorer's old work files will do wonders for it. Something as simple as running, ScanDisk, Disk CleanUp and Defrag in system tools can also help.

As a guide, take your time and work through page

The tool DELINDEX.BAT can clean out files that slow IE down, and get rid of all those old cookies that clog up the system.

Written in response to: re: uninstalling win ME - upgrade to XP Home (alyssa: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 at 4:29 am) Responses to this message: re: uninstalling win ME - upgrade to XP Home (alyssa: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 at 4:13 pm) re: uninstalling win ME - upgrade to XP Home (alyssa: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 at 6:49 pm)

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