On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 05:26, Mark Weaver wrote: > Angus Auld wrote: > > Hi there, > > I've been running a dual-boot on my Dell Dimm for a few months now w/Mdk > > 8.2 and WinMe, and they seem to cohabitating peacefully on my hd. I have > > defragged my Win partition a few times and it hasn't caused any problems > > for Mdk. Am I courting disaster and holding out on luck alone?? > > > > I hardly use ME at all anymore, and I've thought about just dumping it > > and letting Mdk have the whole drive. Is this particular to laptops or > > are desktops involved too? Any further info about possible problems > > caused by Win defrag would be greatly appreciated. TIA for any feedback. > > > > --Angus > > Hi Angus, > > Maybe you're just one of the lucky few. If so, we'll just take comfort > in the fact that there are actually folks out there that haven't been > bitten by the ME dragon. Frankly, ME is THE worst thing to ever come out > of Redmond, Washington. I can't believe they actually released that mess > and called it an Operating System. The only thing worse then that is the > fact that they actually got paid money by people for the thing. > > The old adage is still true however. If it isn't broke then don't fix > it. If you're not having any trouble then leave it be. I wouldn't do any > extensive system or disk maintainence on it though using _any_ tools > native to ME though. Not with it's current track record of misfortune > and dataloss. > > If, on the other hand you were to go out and purchase a Windows XP Home > edition, (however, the professional edition is much perfered if you've > got to), I'm sure your computer would be far happier and your data MUCH > safer. > > Mark
MUCH safer, yeah right. It would then belong to Micro$oft. If you have no further use for ME Angus by all means trash it. Me, i still resort back to my Windows to get screen shots for manuals, etc. -- Michael
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