Windows ME updates -- or not?

"Mart" <mart(NoSpam)@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
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> Although I agree largely with Shane's comments, there is one essential
> update you will need (IMHO) - if you want to keep life easy - the K290700
> fix. (And I think there are a couple of other important ones too, but I
> can't remember which)
>
> "Checkpoints That You Create After September 8, 2001 Do Not Restore Your
> Computer"
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290700&Product=winme
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> ... unless you really think you can live without it.

Thanks a lot. I've just downloaded that and will use it when I put the
system together.

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> Personally, I'd certainly do the 'critical updates' (whilst they are still
> available) even if you don't bother with the security updates. Just do a
> couple at a time and check they work ok. You don't have to do them all in
> one batch.

Thanks, I'll look at those too. Are they in a form that I'll be able to
download on another machine and then use on the WinME computer? I'm not
planning on using the auto update feature obviously. If they are "critical"
only in terms of security I don't think I'll have any need for them.

WinME has a reputation for having lots of bugs. From just my own experience
I don't have an opinion about how true that is. I did have one machine I
upgraded from Win98 to WinME (keeping the original files) that eventually
gave me problems, including extremely sluggish performance, but after I
rolled back to Win98 it was fine again. With another machine on which I did
a clean install of ME there were no real problems that I can recall, and
it's a clean install I'll be doing this time.

Do the critical updates address any of the known WinME bugs, whatever they
are?

Neil

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> Mart
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> "Neil Harrington" <not.TakeThisOut@home.today> wrote in message
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>> I'm going to set up a WinME computer. Haven't used that version of
>> Windows for years, but I always liked it -- when it didn't have problems.
>>
>> I'm wondering about doing the updates though. I've just read the recent
>> posts here advising to do that promptly, but as I recall from the last
>> time I did those updates -- a few years ago -- they seemed to be all
>> security-related and nothing else. Am I mistaken about this?
>>
>> The reason I'm asking is, I don't intend to use the WinME machine for
>> much of anything besides old Win9x (and maybe some DOS) games. I don't
>> expect ever to go online with it. Therefore security doesn't seem to be
>> an issue for me here.
>>
>> I recall (vaguely) that the last time I set up a WinME system it ran
>> perfectly, until after I'd installed all the updates, and after that I
>> began to have various problems. Of course the updates may have had
>> nothing to do with it, but if they really don't add any improvement or
>> functionality other than security, I'm dubious about using them.
>>
>> Any comments, info or straightening-out much appreciated.
>>
>> Neil
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