Hal,
I can't answer the first problem, but I've encountered the second and
third. The crash at Macromedia sites is a bug in IE5.5. Unfortunately, you
did a clean install. I researched the matter, especially reading Scot
Finnie's newsletters at Winmag.com. He came to the conclusion that, oddly
enuff, Windows Me installs better as an upgrade over Windows 98. That's what
I did and was able to return to IE5.01. Thank god.I've had almost no
problems with the OS.
I've encountered the same think at Updates.com. I thought it was reading
my old Windows98 system files which I kept but that's obviously not the
case. I wood suggest you go to CNET's web site -Help and How To's:Update
your PC. It is much more accurate.
Doyle Hirsch
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>Subject: [PCSOFT] WinME
>Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 07:23:48 EDT
>
>Just installed WinME. Full format, install went well. Installed MS Office
>2000, all o.k. Norton's SystemWorks 2001 / Personal Firewall, all o.k.
>
>1) On boot up, almost all the time Each of my drive partitions open up in
>"My Computer" style windows.
>
>2) I went to a site with maromedia shockwave animation / sound. Window
>froze
>up, sound in loop. Unable to close window, unable to close it with c-a-d.
>Site works fine on other machines, stalls mine everytime.
>
>3)I went to zdnet, ran updates. There was newer shockwave listed.
>Installed,
>didn't help. BUT - several listings for my computer were wrong, such as
>saying I needed Media Player 7. ME HAS MP7. It's there, not 6.4 like ZD
>said. ZDnet Updates not work with WinME?
>
>System is a Pent III 450. PCChip's M748LMRT :(. 64M pc100. Integrated 8M
>video and sound.
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