I'm running Windows ME on a Fujitsu-Siemens Euroline Pentium III 1Ghz, 32mb GeForce 2MX video card, 128mb RAM & 40Gb Hard Disk. Everything is running quite smoothly after the VIA & nVIDIA drivers were updated soon after purchase. The DirectX version is the original ME version 7. My son likes to install various games which need anything from DirectX version 2 ("or higher" as they say on the box) to version 5 - particularly the Tycoon titles. Some games give you the option to install their DirectX version from the CD-ROM but some seem to just perform a version check and may or may not then install something - it happens so quickly its hard to tell. I've tried a newly purchased game that needs "version 2 or above" on an old test-bed Windows 95 PC to see what it did and it just did a version check with no option and as the Windows 95 was old, it installed DirectX version 2 on first install but on subsequent installs it seems to just do a version check and nothing else. Rather than install this game on the ME PC and find out from dxdiag.exe that its messed up my DirectX, I thought I'd ask your opinions first. I assume System Restore doesn't work with DirectX updates and Microsoft says DirectX can't be uninstalled. Is there a DirectX standard that says that if it performs a version check and finds a later version it doesn't overwrite the later version? If not, should I keep a copy of the DirectX 8.1 setup file on the PC just in case?

I am not too sure about the older directx, but the games I have used with older versions of directx, 6 to 8, will not install directx if a new one is installed. I have used directx buster to uninstall 8.1 to go back to 7, but I don't have a link for the program. sorry.

Go the the MS Windows update and download the latest DirectX app. DirectX is now a part of the OS and can not normally be uninstalled. To find out what version you have loaded, go to Start->RUN and type in dxdiag. The resulting info will give your version you have loaded. XP comes with 8.1 loaded but there is an update I believe, from MS.

HI, i'm italian and so my english is not so good...for UnInstall directX 8.1 at this link there is a program..DirectX Eradicator..i haven't tryed it and so i can't say you if the program Go, or if it is only a file for look isido yours compuer... http://www.freewebz.com/firecat/ Good Luck, have a nice day... Nik