Windows Millennium

A friend of mine is buying a new PC for gaming, etc. and Windows ME is an option. Anyone tested the Act Labs Force RS with Nascar Heat in this OS? --David Cook

with a boot disk u can "John Simmons" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > In article <D3qn5.513$[email hidden]>, > [email hidden] says... > > > > "David L. Cook" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:[email hidden]... > > > A friend of mine is buying a new PC for gaming, etc. and Windows ME isan > > option. > > > Anyone tested the Act Labs Force RS with Nascar Heat in this OS? > > > > > > --David Cook > > > > I'm not trying to be a smartass, but I really wouldn't worry about it.WinME > > is really nothing more than Win98 with IE 5.5 and Media Player 7.0 and afew > > other asthetic tweaks. It's not really a new OS as much as it is aglorified > > patch. The bottom line is that if it works in Win98, it'll work inWinME.

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> > > > I believe that WinME also doesn't have the ability to boot to a dos > prompt... > > -- > ========================================================= > Redneck Techno-Biker (Zerex12) > http://www.paddedwall.org/john > Barbarian Diecast Collector (420+ cars and counting) > http://www.paddedwall.org/diecast > DeMONS Scheduler for N3 and NL > http://www.paddedwall.org/demons > > If you want to send me email, go to the first URL shown > above & click "Send Me Mail" in the contents frame. > =========================================================

"David L. Cook" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > A friend of mine is buying a new PC for gaming, etc. and Windows ME is anoption. > Anyone tested the Act Labs Force RS with Nascar Heat in this OS? > > --David Cook I'm not trying to be a smartass, but I really wouldn't worry about it. WinME is really nothing more than Win98 with IE 5.5 and Media Player 7.0 and a few other asthetic tweaks. It's not really a new OS as much as it is a glorified patch. The bottom line is that if it works in Win98, it'll work in WinME.

In article <D3qn5.513$[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says...

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> > "David L. Cook" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > A friend of mine is buying a new PC for gaming, etc. and Windows ME is an > option. > > Anyone tested the Act Labs Force RS with Nascar Heat in this OS? > > > > --David Cook > > I'm not trying to be a smartass, but I really wouldn't worry about it. WinME > is really nothing more than Win98 with IE 5.5 and Media Player 7.0 and a few > other asthetic tweaks. It's not really a new OS as much as it is a glorified > patch. The bottom line is that if it works in Win98, it'll work in WinME. >

I believe that WinME also doesn't have the ability to boot to a dos prompt... -- ========================================================= Redneck Techno-Biker (Zerex12) http://www.paddedwall.org/john Barbarian Diecast Collector (420+ cars and counting) http://www.paddedwall.org/diecast DeMONS Scheduler for N3 and NL http://www.paddedwall.org/demons If you want to send me email, go to the first URL shown above & click "Send Me Mail" in the contents frame. =========================================================

> I'm not trying to be a smartass, but I really wouldn't worry about it.WinME > is really nothing more than Win98 with IE 5.5 and Media Player 7.0 and afew > other asthetic tweaks. It's not really a new OS as much as it is aglorified > patch. The bottom line is that if it works in Win98, it'll work in WinME. You're right. I've been using ME for awhile now and it's nothing more than a 98 feature pack. New things include, um, well, that's a tough thing. There's a new IP stack, and some of the old real mode DOS stuff has been removed. There are some firewalls and security products that no longer work, because they relied on DOS real mode to be there. In particular @Guard, which I use, does not work. No big deal, just moved on to ZoneAlarm and Junkbuster to replace it. You can boot to a DOS prompt, but you can only do it through Windows. That is... boot into ME start a DOS prompt. To not boot into Windows, you'll need to make a Windows startup disk then delete the files that force you to boot into Windows. That's what I hear, haven't tried it yet and don't find it to be a problem. And on a final note. This is the best version of a 9x Windows that I've used. Take that however you want. I'm not saying that it's as stable as BeOS, BSD, Linux, etc. Just that if you're going to run Windows this is it. I still have concerns that DirectX is going to mature on Windows 2000, so with games in mind ME is the best.

On Sat, 19 Aug 2000 07:21:04 -0400, "AndrewS" <[email hidden]> wrote: >You're right. I've been using ME for awhile now and it's nothing more than >a 98 feature pack. New things include, um, well, that's a tough thing. >There's a new IP stack, The IP stack and numerous other networking components are essentially lifted from Win2K. It also features native internet connection sharing like Win2K, which works great. I have my cable connection spread out over my LAN and every computer in the house gets great, stable speed. It also has a feature to allow you to restore after a bum software or hardware install, but this slows it down terribly. I killed it off and it runs much nicer. It comes with an applet for capturing and encoding video and doing some rudmentary editing which is DV enabled, too. >There are some firewalls and security products that no longer >work, because they relied on DOS real mode to be there. In particular >@Guard, which I use, does not work. No big deal, just moved on to ZoneAlarm >and Junkbuster to replace it. Same here. Necessary with the cable modem. >You can boot to a DOS prompt, but you can only do it through Windows. That >is... boot into ME start a DOS prompt. To not boot into Windows, you'll >need to make a Windows startup disk then delete the files that force you to >boot into Windows. That's what I hear, haven't tried it yet and don't find >it to be a problem. Same here. I saw a hack for this someplace already but I don't usually have to *boot* to dos mode. I can pop up a DOS box when I need to do some command line stuff and it works fine. >And on a final note. This is the best version of a 9x Windows that I've >used. I agree with this strongly. It is *Much* more stable than Win 98 or 98SE. It isn't crashproof, though no OS is, but does a nice job of handling things more gracefully than previous versions. There is more NT under the hood of this OS than any previous version, lending credence to MS's assertion that NT and 9x will merge. Win2K gets ambitious DirectX support and 9x gets NTs networking innards..sure sounds like steps in that direction to me! > Take that however you want. I'm not saying that it's as stable as >BeOS, BSD, Linux, etc. Just that if you're going to run Windows this is it. For games, I agree. My wife also managed to crash a nice new install of BeOS in less than 5 minutes, so that's no stability champ, either. >I still have concerns that DirectX is going to mature on Windows 2000, so >with games in mind ME is the best. I agree. The stability alone is worth it. It is also altogether more network oriented. ~daxe

> @Guard, which I use, does not work. No big deal, just moved on toZoneAlarm > and Junkbuster to replace it. What is Junkbuster? > And on a final note. This is the best version of a 9x Windows that I've > used. Take that however you want. I'm not saying that it's as stable as > BeOS, BSD, Linux, etc. Just that if you're going to run Windows this isit. > I still have concerns that DirectX is going to mature on Windows 2000, so > with games in mind ME is the best. I agree. WinME seems to be more stable, and it definitley boots up faster.

> What is Junkbuster? Removes advertisements from web pages. Also allows you to accept and reject cookies from specific sites. http://www.junkbuster.com/ @Guard which is now one of Norton's Internet Security products accomplished the same thing but was much more elegant. Has wizards and GUI's to simplify the blocking of ads and cookies. Junkbuster does the same, but you must configure it via text files. It is FREE though. Speeds up surfing tremendously.