Reply 20 of 23, by ElectricMonk
wrote:wrote:wrote:When Windows 2000 came out I stayed away from it because it did have problems with Voodoo drivers at the time and made the upgrade for the Voodoo box to be Windows ME instead. 🤣 😀 😐 😒
ME is good I don't understand why people hate it so much too.
Because you can get all the best features of ME using 98SE2ME without breaking DOS compatibility like ME does. Microsoft deactivated DOS real mode to get faster boot time so a lot of programs that need it on boot won't run. It also makes switching on the fly between Windows and DOS a pain with ME.
The biggest issue I saw pop up with ME was when I'd have clients try to use an early 802.11b adapter/PCMCIA card. Nothing but headaches. Several customers ended up upgrading to XP (no hardwaree changes at all), and the issues disappeared.
I don't recall if it was being caused by drivers, or ME's network support.