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It’s shocking how many programs you download that want to faff about on the Internet without any need.
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Zone Alarm gives you full control over what you’re letting into or, importantly, out of your PC, and by default, all programs on your system are blocked from accessing the Internet until you’ve given them permission. If you Google the software version you’re after with the words ‘old apps’, and the version is still available, you should find a reliable download. You should be able to get Zone Alarm 3.7 from the fantastic site Old Apps. The good news is that ClamWin places a hell of a lot less demand on resources than the better known AV programs, and it doesn’t bog down the boot process.Īdmittedly, in itself, ClamWin is not much of a defence, so I added in my good old trusty Zone Alarm 3.7 – free on a magazine cover disc nearly a decade ago, and still a brilliant firewall today. You have to scan files in order for ClamWin to detect viruses or malware. ClamWin is quite different from the likes of Avast!, AVG, Panda, Avira, Microsoft Security Essentials, etc, in that it doesn’t offer real time protection. The only anti-virus utility I could find which still fully updates its database with Windows ME was ClamWin.
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I’ve had to do a fair amount of digging and a bit of jiggery-pokery with the driver updates here and there, but Windows Device Manager has accepted that everything’s okay in the end. The computer was designed in the era of Windows XP, so it was touch and go getting ME compatible drivers.
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This Netgear WG111v3 USB wirless dongle supports Windows ME.įinding drivers for the system I’m using was also a pain. There appear to be some compatible Belkin products around too, but you have to hunt. They’re certainly not something which can, any longer, be described as readily available. There are still the odd few around which support back to Windows ME or even 98, but I’m guessing the majority are from old stock.
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I use wireless, even for my desktop machines, and finding a USB dongle which will actually install itself on something older than Windows XP is a challenge. The first problem was even finding a way to connect it to the web. Getting Windows ME set up to go online in 2012 was not going to be easy. There were problems with ME, but nothing, in my experience, like the catastrophically crash-ridden circus of the original Windows 98. All Windows versions tended to get stick from ‘traditionalists’ in their early months, but because ME was superseded by XP less than a year after introduction, it didn’t really have time for the more balanced evaluations to establish themselves, and people only remember the flak. Maybe the reason Windows ME failed to shrug off its reputation as a ‘load of rubbish’ was its short lifespan as the premier Microsoft home user operating system.
I thought it was by far the best DOS-based Windows system, and it easily out-performed Windows 98SE, whilst providing a very noticeably better and richer user experience.
Today, you probably won’t be able to use your external hard drive with Win 98, but it’s likely to work with ME.Īfter I originally installed ME I was really quite baffled as to why it had provoked such disdain. ME also introduced native support for USB mass storage disks, affording them plug and play recognition without any software installation.
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It pioneered ‘modern day’ features like System Restore and Windows Movie Maker for the home Windows user, and had much improved support for image management as compared with its immediate predecessor Win98SE. Having dropped 98’s real mode DOS boot-up and background presence, ME loaded very quickly, and was extremely light on resources considering its complexity and capabilities. But the much criticised Millennium Edition did have some important improvements over 98. I remember being very reticent to get Windows ME back in 2000, what with so many people slating it and vowing to stick with Windows 98. My security programs (all of them free) can be seen on the Start menu. At the top right is the BitMeter usage display mentioned in the text.
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