GMan, I hate to blow your theory, but that was not the case. When I got it new, my mass produced IBM had a was definitely not high end. I believe the CPU was like 667 mgh and I know it had only 64 megs of RAM, preloaded with ME. I will admit it was a lot faster when I added another 128 stick, but it ran ok on 64 till I started putting more programs on it. Jo Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: "GMan" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 9:01 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: OT: On Internet Radio........ > Jo Ann, > WinME suffered from one of the same problems that now plague Vista. It > was marketed for systems that simply weren't powerful enough to run it > reliably. you, apparently, got it on a system that was strong enough to > support the more advanced processes MS tried to stuff in to it on its way > out the door. The OS put a serious hurting on many other folk's machines > because ME expected to have a larger playground than it got. I ran it for > about a week before switching over to Windows 2000. :O) > > Peace, > G > > http://tinyurl.com/ypbuue > > "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask!" > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jo Ann Weaver" <bookworm54@xxxxxxx> > To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 8:13 PM > Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: OT: On Internet Radio........ > > >> GMan, >> >> I used Windows ME for over three years and didn't have any problems with >> it. >> I surfed the net, did e-mail, burned music CDs and picture slideshows. I >> didn't do much gaming or heavy duty stuff though. I always thought people >> were too hard on ME. >> >> Jo Ann > > --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------