Windows ME

[rwhtvr]

I have just picked up a desktop computer that I left at my mother-in-laws house, my nephew has used this comp for sometime, anyway I got it back to my house and I have DSL
and when I log online I recve a error message that says
C:\EXPLORE.EXE can not be found or is missing, I do not have the ME windows cd to reinstall.
Is the some place I can D/L this or should I just upgrade to
XP
Thx in advance. Rick

 

[AWS]

That box is infected with a virus/trojan.
Do a virus scan and it should clean it up. Looks like your lucky since somehow the infected file was deleted.

 

[phreakwars]

As for upgrading to XP, that really depends on the "FOR WHAT ITS WORTH" factor of the hardware that is currently in the machine .vs what it will cost to make it run XP AT A REASONABLE speed.

I've gotten XP to run on a Pentium 166 laptop with only 64 megs of ram.

Extremely slow, but do-able

I guess I would encourage anybody to take the XP plunge away from ME simply because ME is so filled with memory sucking flaws its almost a joke of an operating system, even compared to Windows 98. I would actually prefer an ME DOWNGRADE to 98 over running that garbage OS any day.

XP, in my opinion is more USER FRIENDLY if anything, but the system requirements to run it right are a bit higher then what Microsoft claims.

I'd go with NO LESS THEN 500 Mhz and 256 megs of ram as a starting point to even concider an XP upgrade. Actually if 500Mhz is your starting point 512 mem would be SOOO much better. If the computer you want to upgrade is not worth that type of investment or can't handle that type of requirement, then NO don't spend the money, keep your old OS, and if its a WIN 9X based OS, then only go as high as 256 megs of ram, any more is a waste in the win9x series. Hope this helps.
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