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Difference Between Windows ME and Windows XP
Hello can someone help me? i only need the differences between Windows ME and Windows XP. Thats all folks!!
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So many repeated and thourogh answers I really didn't want to add to it.
EXCEPT, for home family use, the most important has been left out:
Logon ID and Passwords for everyone: XP has it, ME can't even fake it.
My kids can logon and use anything they ask me to load (XP-Home). XP-Pro would add the capability for them to be in a power group that can load software too, but not unload or change stuff that harms the OS.
After many many rants of "not enough disk space" my sister's son PROUDLY anounced "Hey mom, I got the hard drive 92 percent empty !"
Passwords and NTFS together would have stopped that.
'nuff said.
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EXCEPT, for home family use, the most important has been left out:
Logon ID and Passwords for everyone: XP has it, ME can't even fake it.
My kids can logon and use anything they ask me to load (XP-Home). XP-Pro would add the capability for them to be in a power group that can load software too, but not unload or change stuff that harms the OS.
After many many rants of "not enough disk space" my sister's son PROUDLY anounced "Hey mom, I got the hard drive 92 percent empty !"
Passwords and NTFS together would have stopped that.
'nuff said.
2K
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Here's the down-and-dirty answer, without the techie lingo:
Windows ME sucks. It's Win98 with a redesigned interface. The underpinnings are weak. Don't waste your money on it.
Windows XP Home sucks. It looks like Windows ME, and pretends to be Windows XP, but it has been castrated, so to speak.
Get Windows XP Professional. I'd recommend Win2K, but it's hard to find now. I say that only because they put goofy crap in XP that REALLY doesn't need to be there, like the cute little doggy that helps you find things...
Use passwords but not NTFS - if you use FAT32 you can boot off a diskette to fix things. You can't do that with NTFS. Unless you absolutely need encryption, take a pass...
Now, 'nuff said.
l8r
Windows ME sucks. It's Win98 with a redesigned interface. The underpinnings are weak. Don't waste your money on it.
Windows XP Home sucks. It looks like Windows ME, and pretends to be Windows XP, but it has been castrated, so to speak.
Get Windows XP Professional. I'd recommend Win2K, but it's hard to find now. I say that only because they put goofy crap in XP that REALLY doesn't need to be there, like the cute little doggy that helps you find things...
Use passwords but not NTFS - if you use FAT32 you can boot off a diskette to fix things. You can't do that with NTFS. Unless you absolutely need encryption, take a pass...
Now, 'nuff said.
l8r
If you have a decent computer, I'd agree with everyone else in recommending Windows XP. However, this thing eats RAM like no tomorrow: you really need at least 512 MB for it to work.
Case in point: I upgraded from a Athlon 1 GHz 512MB SDRAM w/ GeForce 2 Ti to a Athlon XP 2100+ 256MB PC2700 w/ GeForce 4 Ti on a Windows 2000 system. Performance in 3d games increased a little, as long as I used small texture files. When I swapped to WinXP, my old system maintained its performance, but my new system dropped considerably. It's been a weaker system (in all respects, not just games) since my "upgrade", because of the vast amounts of RAM XP requires.
ShineOn's Win2k suggestion is a good idea if you have a computer with less than 512 MB of RAM.
Case in point: I upgraded from a Athlon 1 GHz 512MB SDRAM w/ GeForce 2 Ti to a Athlon XP 2100+ 256MB PC2700 w/ GeForce 4 Ti on a Windows 2000 system. Performance in 3d games increased a little, as long as I used small texture files. When I swapped to WinXP, my old system maintained its performance, but my new system dropped considerably. It's been a weaker system (in all respects, not just games) since my "upgrade", because of the vast amounts of RAM XP requires.
ShineOn's Win2k suggestion is a good idea if you have a computer with less than 512 MB of RAM.
If you have access to a Windows 2000 Professional install CD, you can, per the license agreement, purchase WinXP Pro and "downgrade" it to Win2K Pro.
This can't be done with WinXP Home. No backward/upward/sideways capability there. Bad system to bank on, period.
If you buy WinXP Pro but install Win2K Pro, what you get is:
1) Less demand on memory (what Tanaric said is very true)
2) Slightly less compatibility (they "fixed" a few things with WinXP)
3) A cleaner, easier-to-follow interface (you don't have to relearn where everything is and how to negotiate, because the Win2K GUI is so much more similar to Win9X)
4) Slightly less multimedia capability (most of which has been addressed in service packs, fixes and driver updates.)
5) A more stable out-of-the-box experience
6) A better citizen in your network than XP Home, by far.
7) The freedom to add/change your hardware at will without having to fart around with product activation.
The most important recommendation I can make is that you should do some searching of the internet to determine which services you really need to have active, and disable the ones that are irrelevant to your situation. The bulk of the Windows vulnerabilities are a result of a combination of leaving default services active that are not needed, and not updating your patch levels to current.
-Shine.
This can't be done with WinXP Home. No backward/upward/sideways capability there. Bad system to bank on, period.
If you buy WinXP Pro but install Win2K Pro, what you get is:
1) Less demand on memory (what Tanaric said is very true)
2) Slightly less compatibility (they "fixed" a few things with WinXP)
3) A cleaner, easier-to-follow interface (you don't have to relearn where everything is and how to negotiate, because the Win2K GUI is so much more similar to Win9X)
4) Slightly less multimedia capability (most of which has been addressed in service packs, fixes and driver updates.)
5) A more stable out-of-the-box experience
6) A better citizen in your network than XP Home, by far.
7) The freedom to add/change your hardware at will without having to fart around with product activation.
The most important recommendation I can make is that you should do some searching of the internet to determine which services you really need to have active, and disable the ones that are irrelevant to your situation. The bulk of the Windows vulnerabilities are a result of a combination of leaving default services active that are not needed, and not updating your patch levels to current.
-Shine.
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ShineOn gave new and valuable information on compatability differences and passowords. I wouldn't want to see him left out.
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I got simple answer Windows ME is the worst Operating System ever made peroid if it had a neck i would choke it with my bare hands
I got simple answer Windows ME is the worst Operating System ever made peroid if it had a neck i would choke it with my bare hands
From my experience Windows ME is slower, less stable and doesn't have the features of Windows XP. If your thinking about choosing a operating system, your better off going with Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Now that Windows XP has a service pack it should start to really be come stable and worth investing in.
Just thought that I would throw my two cents in.
Chad