That video you made, makes so much sense, at the same time as it makes absolutely no sense at all. It should've been the only video humanity sent out on Voyager.

Oh, god. Old media player... memories of getting high then staring at the visualizer while listening to eiffel 65. 🤣

I loved Windows ME. It booted faster than any other OS.

I love this guys laugh....it is just like NEWMAN!

Just a small detail, but I liked the shadow of the mouse cursor which somehow made the whole GUI look better.

Oh god. The visuals, themes, media players... talk about bringing back memories.

Do you use windows 95 as your main?

Please don't share with others, how3ver it was my raforit3 edition of windiowns

Type product key, excluding the dashes in the boxes below: FARTS BALLS FARTS BALLS FARTS

how is millennium edition the worst? vista was the worst! it couldn’t even run solitare! instead, you would get a bsod.

One reason why there might not have been any need to install/re-install drivers, is if the ME upgrade kept the drivers etc from 98. A clean install might give you different results.

could be worse, you could be using Vista

OMG! I remember playing around with the media player and thinking the skins were cool! Looking at it now they look terrible! XD

Its so try-hard with all this music.

Windows Mental Embarrassment

I still use Winamp simply because of its' UI skins. I believe VLC has skins as well.

The windows destiny was like sine wave 98: good ME: bad XP: good Vista: bad 7: good 8: bad

Amazing thing is that even i never used that system i could without being lost, windows ui is just timeless

Spent 500 on this in 2001 worsts version of Windows ever! Even Vista was better

My buddy ad I often joked that ME was an intentional Y2K prank on the world by Microsoft...

well. i liked it XD

Yes. Yes, it was. Next question please.

Confession time... I worked at a store called "Computer City" I begrudgingly sold people Windows ME... However I did advise EVERYONE to buy the upgrade copy and use Disk 1 of Windows 3.1 so they could save $150 bucks... I am glad I tried to help, Computer city went under, was it ME who did it? :D

for me when it first booted it brought back memories hearing that boot jingle

that's right everyone, i am now officially a windows os

Wow this was such a blast from the past!!! Thanks for making this video. Brought back a lot of memories, some good, others not so much. But for better or worse this was the operating system I had in my mid-teens.

To answer the title of the video,.. Yes. Yes it was.

Yep 80% of the people I knew back then skipped ME, most people that had it had the OEM forced on them when buying a new PC, kinda like how MS handled upgrading from 7 to 8. I kept using 98r2 until XP rolled out, it never existed to me. Vista wasn't that bad though, all I can say is the RAM usage and tools pretty much killed its potential to become 7 before 7 came out.

the windows we all saw "fast" internet through for the first time

What I remember most is awaiting it's release while hoping like hell that it wouldn't come to a grinding halt whenever a program crashed like 98 did... no such luck. It seemed slightly more stable but if anything crashed, Windows still ended up needing a reboot and you lost anything that was unsaved. Windows 2000 was so much more stable that I skipped M.E and advised everyone to do the same

the box looks like if its ceral

God it was shit. So unstable - I think it had bi-polar syndrome !

Milenium is ok but people always criticise things when the issue is their garbage computers happened with vista, 7 is just a better vista but vista is not bad, the thing is that people had issues couse they tried running aeros with garbage pcs with bad graphics cards

Completely easy and seamless upgrade experience. Everything worked right out of the box, no driver issues. Cool and edgy Windows Media Player skins thrown in for free... I think this video is really LGR discovering that the Windows ME hate was an unjustified witch-hunt against a perfect operating system!!!

ME couldn’t play an MP3 without glitching halfway though

Don’t worry about covering up the product key. No one would purposely put them selves through the ME nightmare

I just remember that at the time they were predicting that everyone would be using Linux by 2003 after it came out. I did have it on one of my laptops only to downgrade it to Windows 98.

WindowsME and Windows 10 are hands down my two favorites and I started back when the only option was MS-DOS. I think ME is the first time I ever had a home network setup in our house too. It was really easy to do for the first time. Also driver support was way better in ME than in previous versions. Thanks for this video, the nostalgia it stirred for this nerd was intense lol

i had very few problems with Windows ME. I really liked it!!!

Windows me was ok

migraine edition

I loved Windows ME. Got to install it in my vmware.. Nostalsgic !!!

I really did enjoy WIndows ME. It wasn't windows 2000 but it got the job done. In fact, I think it was the precursor to Win xp home vs win xp pro.

Mmm, WinMe was a hoot. Had to fix errors on disk at every startup, reinstall drivers once a week and reinstall the entire OS once a month.

I helped friends and family with their computers in the late 90's and early 2000's and Windows ME was the bane of my existence. It constantly crashed and caused so many problems I would reformat their computers to Windows 2000, even brand new out of the box systems had problems. I was glad once XP came out, it was a big improvement. My personal computer would crash 3 times per day on ME until I reformatted to 2000 then later XP, it was such an unstable mess of code. Microsoft basically added code to Windows 95 to make Windows 98, then added code to make Windows 98 Second Edition / Internet Explorer Edition (where instability started to crop up), then added even more code to make Windows ME, resulting in such an unstable, tangled mess of unmanageable code it is no wonder that it crashed & froze & hung up so often.

It had dual CPU support....

OMG seeing that compaq in the beginning, one of the first computers my parents bought as a kid, same blue/purple front and all. (year late but great content, just found you recently)

Ok- Windows ME and Windows 2000 both have (the same) startup and shutdown sounds, but the install CD-ROM for WIndows ME... it emits the Windows 98 boot sound when you put it in, not the Windows ME one, and then, when it starts, it plays the Windows NT 4.0 shutdown sound...? I am the only person bothered by this.

I really don't miss Microsoft products. Moving to Linux years ago I haven't used a windows based pc in 7+yrs. I have run it in a VM tho for the two older programs I use occasionally that are windows only. Moving to Linux is not a decision I regret in the least.

I hate it. It was that bad.

ME wasn't terrible, but it was a clear step down from 98SE. It wasn't in the same league as the Win 8 disaster.

The real question is... Is it windows ME more bad than windows vista?

I used to use 2000 for years. Honestly never had a problem with it until Vista was on the horizon. Then it died because of a virus, installed xp for a few months then jumped on to Vista 64. Also... I still use those speakers.

I was one who downgraded to 98SE when I got a machine with ME on it. Then went XP which was the best until Win 7. After? - Linux for me.

18:52 That's so creepy, like Microsoft saying "your kids now belong to us"

wow I had forgotten about boot diskettes

What’s was wrong with windows me? Windows me was always a stable operating system for me I never had a single glitch out of it I used it in a virtual machine

FARTS-BALLS-FARTS-BALLS-FARTS - is it a joke?

Hey I had the Presario too! I was like 2 years old back then.

I bought and used WinME and honestly had absolutely NO problems with it whatsoever. As a certified tech myself I found that the so called “issues” were highly exaggerated and therefore bunk.

Windows Moron Edition

Thanks God Windows 2000 came along! You should test OS2 2.1 which was a great SO with windows support.

Windows ME isn't bad enough, it just had to force you to listen to Beck. I guess it's better than being forced to listen to U2 though (thx itunes).

Liked it a lot. Never had more issues than any other OS

When I had it as a kid I would have to do a clean windows install once a year. I think it was a bug where windows would eat HDD space. I was like 13 or so at the time so I don't remember it perfectly. I just know it would become more and more unstable over time and when the HDD would get past half way.

In case you don't know yet: The instability and big problems of wiindows me mainly derived from the mixture of windows 98 with windows me drivers / dll components. even if you bought a cheaper windows me upgrade edition (from 98 to me), that does not mean, it is recommended to actually do that on an existing windows 98 installation. so, if you did the upgrade process on a minimum fresh windows 98 install. (with no win 98 drivers a.s.o installed), you got a better - more reliable - windows me installation. ppl fear new installations and prefer upgradings - I know. but in the windows me upgrade process, it was definitely a better choice.

Stilll not bas as windows 10

ME was weird. That’s why XP was so great. Almost why Windows 10 is so great because 8 was a turd sandwich

Yes

Best way to resolve 98/ME issues was a good old dual boot but windows got a lot better with win2k which was not marketed as a gaming OS but stuff just worked great... why not do vid on win2K?

My first OS

My first computer was a PIII 600E MHZ don't remember which motherboard, came with WinME installed and it was a nightmare, constant freeze/hangs and ended up installing Win98

My first computer was a ME machine... in 2009

17:16 [upbeat music]

I don't see how anyone thought a newer operating system would perform better. It's not more efficient and it's loaded with more stuff constantly running in the background. My XP machine is fast although out of date. My windows 10 machine is slow and chuncky and doesn't like to have facebook open for more than a few minutes. my XP machine doesn't do the extra's so facebook can't eat more and more ram over time and i can use the chat without restarting my browser. Basically i only use an OS for stuff i have to use it for. You'd think my xp machine doesn't do youtube... but as it turns out you can if with some modification and it will work better.

26:26 try Roller Coaster Tycoon (maybe both 1 and 2) I remember giving it to a friend and it didn’t work on ME. We called support and they said that the game isn’t supported on ME and they didn’t plan on ever supporting it.

Fisher-Price Windows, as we used to call it...

I never had any issues with W98SE nor WMe. Never ever! I started using Windows since W1.0.

"it would download things everyday, if you wanted it to" yea not anymore, they will force bullshit on you

Yes. Next question.

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Was Windows Vista that bad?

Почему сейчас нет такой красивой музыки на старте?От современных звуков уши болят!

18:54 Please, upload this video on youtube

Windows ME was the OS that came with my first computer. Worked fine for a kiddo wanting to play the Sims.

I'd say if you gave the people of 21 years ago the same level of PC/Internet experience we have today their experience with PC's and the Internet would've improved in not insignificant ways. I'd say the improvement would be as much as 30%. You would still have to deal with the hardware and software issues, however.

I had a Windows ME computer. An old Dell if I remember, back in 2005-06. The computer itself wasn't all that special, but I don't remember anything wrong with the OS. I remember _way_ more problems with my 3rd computer, a Vista powered Gateway than with my ME computer.

Win Me was the last OS that I used in Pentium MMX 166 MHz HDD 2.1 GB PC .....21+ year ago.

Windows ME was never really slower than 98. And in some areas, like pure numbercrunching for example seti@home, it outperformed windows 98 by a large margin. But it was simply unstable. Even with carefully selected components and drivers. And just a few days testing playing around with it, will not show how bad it really was.

It was garbage. I had to restore the os every month

Active backgrounds. Explorer thumbnails. Picture thumbnails(!). Improved driver support. SYSTEM RESTORE. Heck yes, it crashed. About as often as 98SE. But it now had a save tool, which literally saved me countless times. Did I mention THUMBNAILS? Anyone who says ME sucked compared to 98SE clearly did not use it, or is brain damaged.

800x600, THAT needs a crucifix~

I love seeing that old loading bar

MSN Gaming zone. Oh yeah. Any Asheron's Call players here ?

I just threw out all my windows install disks from 95 to Win7 this past January. Should I have kept those for any reason?

Tbh I don’t really have a problem with Windows ME I don’t understand why people didn’t like it...

Through my experience WinME could work reliable IF: 1. Installed through clean install and not upgrade. 2. No ISA or old non-PNP devices were plugged in. 3. Chipset/sound/graphics preferably had drivers in newer format (WDM) and not already deprecated back then *.vxd. Had 2 PCs running it (Celeron 333+VIA+TNT2/M64+Ensoniq AudioPCI and later Athlon64 3k++VIA K8M800 - dualboot with XPx64) and never had bigger issues. Maybe because of VIA chipsets? System protection/restore saved my %%% from several virus infections so i truly loved those features.

Had the pinball game on my 98. It came with it.

Because of this video, I went and bought an "EXCELLENT WORKING CONDITION, NO HARD DRIVE" IBM ThinkPad T21, an original IBM AC power adapter manufactured in 2004, an IBM 40 GB IDE HDD and a brand new 3rd-party battery. Also broke out some old Windows 98 and ME install discs my mom had for decades. She bought the operating systems as digital purchases a long time ago. Made sure to back them up with ImgBurn.

You said it all man - the issue with ME was how insanely unstable it was. People these days have no comprehension of how bad operating systems were back then, but no joke a PC running windows me had to be restarted literally every day, otherwise the OS would just start going to shit and the computer would become completely unusable. It was ungodly and frustrated the hell out of me. I eventually upgraded to win2K pro which was like such a godsend after having used me for awhile - like seriously I can’t even explain to people how much of an upgrade that was and how amazing win 2K was. It may even be my favorite OS of all time even to this day, all for how it rescued me from the depths of hell that was me. Oh and as far as what was causing the instability, as far as I recall it was due to a few factors but the main one was that it wasn’t built on the NT kernel. That one thing was the root cause of all the issues with it.

I had a mate who love WinME, he said it never failed on him and he was a project manager for an engineering company and used it hours and hours. I never really had any issues, coding and running various techie software on it. I genuinely think MS didn't really want it and wanted to move on so they kind of crippled it by not bothering to fix it properly, simply to force people onto the next version of Windows and keep the cash rolling in.

Countless sleepovers playing D2 on a pentium 3 windows ME system!