HP locked in to WinME? That's the stupidest decision HP ever made. Even 
Win98 at least
works on most applications, along with myriad clashes.

Might be time to get a new Dell...

--Bob

Roy J. Gromlich wrote:

>Hi Bob:
>
>I would have to agree that WinMe is a disaster, and I would be only
>too happy to upgrade the OS on the computer - I have a nice legal 
>copy of Win2K Pro (and Win2K Server, for that matter) from when
>I worked for a Certified MS Developer. The problem is that it is an 
>HP desktop and they claim there is no upgrade path to Win2K Pro or 
>Win XP. This is one of those all-on-one-board computers, and there 
>are no drivers on HP's website for this motherboard and BIOS used 
>with 2K or XP.   There is a recover CD which came with the system -
>one would only use it in a true emergency, since it is a disk IMAGE
>and puts the system back to the form it was in the day it came out 
>of the box - minus everything that you have done in the interim.. 
>
>So I have hesitated to try the upgrade lest I end up with an unusable 
>box. It has been a long time since I enjoyed playing driver roulette
>trying to get the hardware to actually work as intended. Another 
>reason I hesitate is that if I change the OS I would lose a lot of my 
>installed application software, since I no longer have access to the 
>install disks.
>
>I do have an install disk for WinME (which did NOT come with 
>the computer), so I could (in theory) go back to Me if the 2K install 
>didn't work, but I would still be out a lot of applications. 
>
>For now I will have to live with the error messages, since they don't 
>appear to indicate anything real. Sooner or later a software upgrade 
>will break so badly that I won't be able to use the system, and then I 
>will have to deal with it. Truly a sad state of affairs, by that is
>MickeySoft for you.
>
>------- Roy ------------
>
>----------------------- Previous Post ----------------------------------
>
>Look, Roy, from what my friends have told me, and my personal 
>experience, WinME is unable to perform any really effective work. 
>I got my money returned  from Best Buy, even their staff techs 
>could not get WinME to run reliably.
>
>You need to buy a legal copy of Win2000 PRO from Ebay, then get 
>the MS Upgrades (they'll mail you a CD).  All of that craziness will 
>stop. XP is ALMOST  (but not quite) ready for primetime; Win2K 
>with all its shots is.
>
>Here's how MS works. They release a razzle-dazzle product. The 
>customers complain, and in about 4 years they finally have it working 
>as right as they can get it (NO MS product works correctly).  
>Unfortunately, they never even worked on WinME. Its still as broken 
>as the day it was released.
>
>--Bob
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