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re: Videos running too slow or not at all Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 2:32 am Posted by DanTheMan (140 messages posted) tired updating flash? may that the computer is slow tell us what hard ware you got flash things dont work great on old hardware On Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 12:20 pm, robcharvic wrote: >Having problems with videos running slow > >The computer is an E machine, 1998 or 99 about 40 gig harddrive. > >It has a version of Windows ME and Windows 2000 Professional. > >Both programs show on restart, you can select which to use. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Videos running too slow or not at all Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 3:19 am Posted by Ricer46 (23825 messages posted) Streaming videos? Or video files stored on your hard drive? On Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 12:20 pm, robcharvic wrote: >Having problems with videos running slow > >The computer is an E machine, 1998 or 99 about 40 gig harddrive. > >It has a version of Windows ME and Windows 2000 Professional. > >Both programs show on restart, you can select which to use. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Videos running too slow or not at all Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 4:26 am Posted by Keith Stanier (1655 messages posted) DanTheMan wrote: |tired updating flash? |may that the computer is slow tell us what hard ware you got |flash things dont work great on old hardware As Daniel says you can try updating you flash player. The highest version you can use on Win9x/ME is Flash Player 9.0.124.0 (IE) if you're using IE or the other version if you're not. Flash Player 10.0.12.36 says All Windows versions but it won't install on Win9x/ME so that incorrect. You're probably like Daniel and me trying to run new video's on an old system. I have WinXP 2002 SP2 on another drive. It installs WMP 9 by default so I thought I would update to WMP 10 to see if its any better. After that video's don't play very good, they are jerky video's and sound and you miss most. I also tried WMP 11 but thats just as bad. I uninstalled which puts WMP 9 back and the video's all play perfectly again. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Videos running too slow or not at all Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 5:43 am Posted by robcharvic (2 messages posted) I don't have any video stored yet. I was trying to look at them on You Tube and the news channels. On Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 3:19 am, Ricer46 wrote: >Streaming videos? Or video files stored on your hard drive? > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Videos running too slow or not at all Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 8:14 am Posted by Arminius (334 messages posted) Are the videos equally slow when played on Windows 2000? You need a very fast internet connection for videos to play smoothly. Or else you have to wait for them to download completely and replay them from the beginning. If the hardware has not been upgraded on your 1998 or 99 E machine, now is a good time to do it. Second hand fast Pentium III's and RAM are dirt cheap. In fact you should be able to pick up a whole PIII box more powerful than yours for the price of the CPU and the RAM. Having two operating systems won't slow the system down, but unless you have a specific reason for dual booting 2000/ME, such as games or other programs that require 9x but won't run on Win2000, then you may as well give WinME the flick. Software companies are gradually dropping support for 98SE/ME. It will become hazardous online when there are no longer any updated virus definition files for those OS's. Win2000 has a few more years left in it. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Videos running too slow or not at all Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 8:42 am Posted by Ricer46 (23825 messages posted) I would guess that your computer is either too slow or your connection is too slow, or even both. But you seem reluctant to supply any really useful information to get any useful help. On Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 5:43 am, robcharvic wrote: >I don't have any video stored yet. I was trying to look at them on You Tube and the >news channels. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Videos running too slow or not at all Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 6:20 am Posted by Peter (278 messages posted) Regarding lack of antivirus updates the very least you can do is to junk IE6 which is extremely vulnerable to malware and use Firefox or Opera which as well as being much safer actually are much better browsers. On Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 8:14 am, Arminius wrote: >Are the videos equally slow when played on Windows 2000? > >You need a very fast internet connection for videos to play smoothly. Or else you >have to wait for them to download completely and replay them from the beginning. > >If the hardware has not been upgraded on your 1998 or 99 E machine, now is a good >time to do it. Second hand fast Pentium III's and RAM are dirt cheap. In fact you >should be able to pick up a whole PIII box more powerful than yours for the price >of the CPU and the RAM. > >Having two operating systems won't slow the system down, but unless you have a specific >reason for dual booting 2000/ME, such as games or other programs that require 9x >but won't run on Win2000, then you may as well give WinME the flick. Software companies >are gradually dropping support for 98SE/ME. It will become hazardous online when >there are no longer any updated virus definition files for those OS's. 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