Re: regretting upgrade from ME to XP Home


Melodie wrote:

A couple of months ago I decided to upgrade because I was worried about security issues if I continued to use ME. Wish I hadn't done it. I checked the system requirements for this upgrade and thought I was OK, but evidently not. My hard drive is way too full. In My Computer it says my C: drive total size is 37.2 GB and free space is 2.72 GB. I've removed a bunch of old email and docs, but it didn't help much. Ran Disk Cleanup. Disk is too full to run Defrag. I think I even removed some of my virus and spyware software, just trying to clear enough space to defrag. (Don't worry, the machine isn't vulnerable. I'm using my work laptop at present and don't plan to get on the internet again with my home machine until I can get this resolved.) I've been reading, and reading, and reading in these discussion groups.....and now I'm too scared to do anything else to it! At this point, if its still possible, I think I'd rather just go back to ME. I have the reinstallation CD that came with my computer, but I'm afraid I deleted ME files that I shouldn't have. (I think I remember being asked about deleting ME files at some point. Everything worked fine for weeks, so I may have done that. Sorry, this was a while back and I just can't remember exactly.) My guess is that I'd need a costly upgrade to make XP feasible. It might make better sense to just buy a new machine.....but I really don't feel comfortable spending the $ right now (possible layoff looming). So...if I can go back to ME, that may be best.

My system specs:
Dell Intel Pentium 4 CPU 1.60 GHz, 128 MB RAM
floppy disk drive and CDROM

As you can probably tell, I know just enough to get myself in trouble, which is exactly what I've done! I'd appreciate advice from the experts here, but please "dummy it down" for me, or I won't get it! Thanks so much!

Melodie

There is a better alternative to Windows ME and just about as good
as Windows XP HE and that is Windows 2000 Pro plus SP4. And adding
another 128 of RAM for a total of 256 MB would also be good for a
computer of this age.
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