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re: Windows Me obsolete? Tuesday, April 3, 2007 at 6:19 am Posted by Larry (1364 messages posted) No, you don't have to scrap ME. MS just isn't issuing any more updates to it as of July '06. All updates up to that point are available on the update site however. If you haven't updated ME in a while I would go get all the available updates. It might take a few visits depending on what is needed for your machine. As far as ZoneAlarm goes, go to oldversion.com and get version 6.0 which is one of the last versions compatible with Win9x, and again like ME, still perfectly usable. When setting it up, just set it for manual (not automatic) updates and forget about it. AVGs latest release of 7.5 works fine with ME also. I'd try downloading and installing it again after you've applied all Windows updates. There may be some .dll file or whatever that's needed for AVG to install correctly. On Tuesday, April 3, 2007 at 5:38 am, Vera Calderon wrote: >I find that microsoft no longer supports Windows Me, nor does Zone Labs and now AVG >has a new version which I can download but not install. AVG will no longer support >the old version. Does this mean that I must scrap my operating system? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows Me obsolete? Tuesday, April 3, 2007 at 9:30 am Posted by Steve (23811 messages posted) I think ME works better then the new Vista Operating System, so try to keep your computer for a couple more years if you can. I think it will take that long for Vista to come up to speed with Hardware, and software. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows Me obsolete? Tuesday, April 3, 2007 at 7:42 pm Posted by dougdeep (14 messages posted) If you're still having trouble with AVG try this: Uninstall the old version, reboot, install the new version, reboot. That's worked on a half-dozen Windows Me computers I've come across. There's a problem with running the new version installer as an "upgrade" on Windows Me and there's a lot of discussion about it on the AVG Free forums. I don't know if anyone ever came up with a good solution but this workaround is easy enough. Once installed, version 7.5 works just fine. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows Me obsolete? Tuesday, April 3, 2007 at 8:19 pm Posted by Vera Calderon (2 messages posted) Thank you all for the info. Vera [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum