> One had to reinstall Win95/98 every year or two. Depends on how many applications one installed and uninstalled - I used to reinstall Windows at least twice

> One had to reinstall Win95/98 every year or two. Depends on how many applications one installed and uninstalled - I used to reinstall Windows at least twice a year. I still faintly remember the joy I felt when the newly installed Windows was so snappy. :-) By the time ME was released, I had started to explore this other system called Linux, and I was hooked rather quickly. I did keep ME installed for watching DVDs, though, because back then my computer was too slow to decode DVDs in software, and the accelerator card only worked on Windows. So I can testify, if all you do to ME is install PowerDVD and the driver for that decoder card, and then watch DVDs with it, it is both stable and performant. I was always slightly baffled when others bashed ME. Was it really that bad? I wouldn't know, all I can say is it worked alright for DVD playback. ;-)