Hey,

My computer is a Celeron 366mhz, with 64megs ram. I recently installed Win ME after my hard drive crashed (thinking it would be more stable than Win 98), but every time I try working my system stops responding.

Using Office 2000 (designing in Publisher), Scanning floppy disks for viruses (with Norton Anti-virus 2001) or multi-tasking between programs like Word and Paint, freezes the system and I have to reboot.

I have defraged, optimized, reduced hardware acceleration, increased the swop file size and tried to stop background programs from running.

Any ideas - could it be my insufficien RAM, and should I consider reinstalling Win 98?

Thanks again

I think that you should really be looking at 128mb of ram as ME does a lot of hidden processes in the background. Type in MSconfig at the RUN prompt and this will let you tweak some of the options in ME so that it will not hammer your system so much. Also make sure that your applications are as up to date as possible (get the most recent patches / upgrades that you can, as even if the are compatible with 98 they can some times screw up or missbehave under ME, scanners are one of the worst offenders.If you cannot afford more ram at the moment and the tweaks don't work I would go back to 98(SE) as this is a lot more stable and not a great deal different from ME and you can always download media player 7 and IE 5.5 from MS anyway (if you do keep ME on your system then I suggest that you download these upgrades anyway as they are a lot more stable than the original versions). I hope that this helps and good luck. Des.

reformat, reload back windows98SE... if you dont want to reformat load 98 in a different subdirectory (that works as a clean install)... stay away from WMP7, it needs much more powerfull hardware
Regards Miro

i agree with des, except about 98 being more
stable than me.