First question: did you clean install winME or did a upgrade for win98? I
often see problems if such upgrade was performed, MS never has a smooth
upgrade.

2nd question: did you use latest driver for your hardware? especially check
if you get the driver for ME. even MS claims that you can use win98 driver
for ME, but in real life, I don't see this MS way, many things don't work
unless you get a new driver that designed for ME. Just like MS claimed that
NT4 driver should work with win2k (or win95 driver under win98), but the
truth is not. I have seen how MS lies from the age win95 appear, you just
cannot trust MS.

In my opinion, ME is still too young, to not have good driver/software
support, there are a lot of software don't like ME, most drivers designed
for win95/98 are out-of-date for ME. Worst of all, ME doesn't have a good
build-in driver database (even win2k has more drivers than ME build in).

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mwelwa Mofya" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 7:48 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Windows ME error after error..Why?


> I have an AMD K6-450 system with 128mb RAM and a 10gb hard drive. I just
> installed Windows ME on my computer (as an upgrade from Windows 98se. I
have
> not been able to run anything smoothly after the installation. Every
program
> I try to run gives me an error message saying "ProgramName(eg. msoffice)
has
> created an error in Kernal 32 and will now close. If problem persists,
> please restart your computer." I have tried restarting my computer but I
> still get the same error. I tries reinstalling Windows ME but the error is
> still there. What could be the problem and what can I do about it? I did
not
> have any of theses problems when using windows 98se

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