WINDOWS ME OS SPECS, REVIEWS, FEATURES AND REVIEWS

                               

The Windows Millennium Edition operating system is the successor of Windows 98 SE with some selected features of Windows 2000. The system core consists of a few parts of source code from Windows 2000. MS-DOS is furthermore necessary for the system start, DOS driver software are not used under Windows any more.

In opposite with the predecessor Windows 98 new features were added. Now it is possible to create compressed folders who moreover let themselves be encoded (screenshots 3-4). The search function from Windows 2000 was integrated into the Windows ME Explorer, the stability was improved. The Windows Registry was extended by 1 file for performance reasons. The Registry file Classes.dat is loaded only on demand, System.dat and User.dat are loaded statically. For any loged in user the respective User.dat is loaded from the profile directory like since Windows 95. Benchmarks betweenWindows ME and Windows 2000 with current games has shown that Windows ME has with suitably hardware and driver software a slightly higher benchmark result. The sales started on September 14th, 2000.
                                            
Area of application
- PC Games
- private users
- network client, Internet connection sharing

Structure informations
- supports ACPI, Idle states for computer
- integrated Internet Explorer 5.5
- monolithic kernel
- preemptive multitasking
- System file protection and system recovery
- automated system processes
- universal Plug and Play (UPnP)

System Environment
- Minimum Hardware requirements: 32 mbyte RAM, 500 mbyte of free harddisk storage
- up to 512 mbyte RAM adressable
- FAT-16 or FAT-32 File system
- x86 and compatible processors

Features
- simplified network setup in opposition to the predecessor
- increased Stability with system recovery and system file protection
- no 16-bit program code
- Compatibility problems with software for Win9x and driver software
- no common use of Windows 2000 WDM driver software with Windows ME

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