Microsoft should go back to the old route it's less expensive than all this modern non sense and I feel like it's pretty stupid making everything digital I miss actually using a game disk on a computer growing up. They're easily replaceable and not bound to ridiculous policies and allow you to keep your computer for a lifetime. If Microsoft not saying they will ever go back to Windows XP if they run out of ideas then I'm all in for the support I hate how scattered newer Windows start menus are it's annoying.
We used Windows Me for about 4 years before getting a upgrade copy of XP. It wasnt super stable but it depended on what you were trying to do since I think the instability was due to changes to the driver model in preparation for switching consumers to the NT kernal. We had a cheap flatbed scanner and I dont know what the driver or software was doing under the hood, but whenever we installed the drivers to use it that install of Me would be dead within days. We had to get rid of the scanner since it was toxic to Windows Me.
I love garage/yard sales! What a score! I got all my first PCs and parts from garage sales when I started tinkering and building my first PCs in the early 2000s. I started to build my own pc since my dad would complain all the time we were slowing down the only pc in the house that was shared with 5 others. They may have been old parts not very capable of gaming much, but I was happy to have my own pc that i put together that ran.
When I worked in the stock room at Computer City here in Buffalo, I got a promotional copy of Windows 98. It's not even in a box, it's just a cardboard sleeve that contains the CD-ROM. I miss that place, it was one of the few jobs I loved because we were the first to see the newest hardware and software before we put it out on the sales floor. Good times.
I LOVED the Windows Movie Maker! Used it all the time for videos and slideshows with audio, which I would burn to CD for friends and family. I was so sad when it was discontinued. Of course better software came along, but I'll always remember Movie Maker very fondly.
Born and raised in Brazil I've never seen an original copy of Windows neither office. They do exist but usually there is two situations: It came with the computer without a box or you bought a pirate one.
I remember that my very first gaming PC that I built myself in early 2001 which had a 1 GHz Pentium III cpu with 256 mb of ram. I remember that I originally had Windows ME on it and then I later upgraded it to Windows XP in 2002.
@@orbitron The only reason I can think of is they wanted a "cool" sound effect to play for upgrading your computer to Windows ME, and I guess didn't have the time to get something unique. Given that ME was aimed at consumers, most weren't likely to have any experience with NT, so it'd just come across as "oh hey, cool sound."
16:18 yes, NT 5.0 Beta DID use NT 4.0 sounds up to Build 1631, when after that it used the actual NT 5.0 startup, but kept the NT 4.0 shutdown. Now I got to note that after Beta 1, NT 5.0 used its own startup. He said "NT 5.0 Beta", but the NT 4.0 startup was never used in the Beta stages, just the shutdown sound was only used.
I usually come to this channel to kick back and both chill and geek out over tech, but that moment at 20:37 had me laughing out loud. Your jokes are the best! :-)
I have the promotional step up (blue box) myself, since the 1st day it came out. I've upgraded my Windows 98 HP Omnibook with this. Strangely enough it seems I am one of the few people that actually liked Me, besides their bugs and quirks (and they had quite a few).
To be honest in the past, when I was a kid, I remember windows ME has so many bugs and crashed so many times, we used the windows 2000 which was based on the NT system. We're more stable at this time. They just released the ME together with the 2000. One for the office and businesses and the Me was for "home" users.
Maaaan Movie Maker took me back. I first used it on Windows 98 and then XP in primary school. And in present day I edit videos for a living :') (also, jelly of your boxed OS collection)
Shockingly, I had minimal issues with windows ME back when it was still relevant. I had bought my first brand new desktop with it preinstalled, and for word processing and email it wasn't too bad. I did end up purchasing Windows XP home about two years later, but in the time I used it, it was pretty damn good!
19:30 its like a custom welcome skin going with windows media player, and we can see it only waching this wellcome video after the system installation. i remember something around it from my computer experiense when i was about 10 y o and doing experiments with those win9x OSes on my first PIII machine. i think then i had found this skin in one of media player folders. sry4myeng, its not my native, so and thank you Michael! so nostalgic content!. как у нас говорят, ламповый видос)
I actually had a Windows ME machine that I never connected to the internet, complete with Office 2000 already installed. I actually used that machine to type most of my reports and essays in high school between 2007 and 2010.
I remember back in the day my buddy had a brand new Micron Windows ME pc that he'd just gotten. I was jealous and wanted to upgrade my 98 to ME. Somehow we managed to get the OEM restore CD from the Micron to load up and install on my machine. I dumped it a day later but I remember being so excited to load it and then promptly found out it was trash. Frontpage on the other hand I loved. It was great for editing style sheets and the split-view (code-wysiswyg) was my favorite.
“Windows Me First” sounds like if they continued making Windows Me and named it like “Xbox One”. The second edition of Windows Me could’ve been “Windows Me Two”.
In high school they had us using Frontpage 2000 and it made me so frustrated. We were able to get funding after the first month to get Dreamweaver (was Macromedia at that time) and it was amazing night/day difference. I loved it and making the school’s website went from shitty to amazing (I was the webmaster so all my stuff had to be a tier above everyone else’s, and I think I managed it, imho).
I love the "windows me being windows me" part also I loved the "There was a song that played that would get this video Content ID'd so I had to mute it" part
I had Windows ME on my first PC. I remember people complaining about compatibility issues, but I never had any problems. But I upgraded to XP when that came out.
Frontpage 2000 got me to watch this vid lol. I LOVED THAT TOOL AS A KID! Thanks to stupid stuff I never achieved my dream of being a software developer/ game development, but I'm only 35 and I'm getting back into it. Hope its not too late!
I randomly got a free 'promotional copy' of Windows Millennium upgrade edition sent to me. I have no idea who sent it, or why because it just turned up on my door one day. No note or anything suggesting who it was from, but it was addressed to me. I think I had upgraded to AMD's new 1Ghz Athlon CPU around the same time, it was a big issue as they broke the 1Ghz barrier - so I've always assumed it was something to do with AMD. I don't quite remember the specifics. While I don't remember the actual upgrade to Windows Millennium, I remember most of the additional features not working here in the UK. I think one of them was Internet over TV (or something like that) and it just didn't even work with my ATI All-In-Wonder TV card (but that could have just been ATI's poor driver support). I think I quit using it pretty quickly as I went back to Windows 98SE until XP. From what I remember, I'm pretty sure it messed up my config/autoexec custom boot settings for games and I couldn't boot back into DOS. I still have the Windows Millennium upgrade disc itself.
Windows ME was designed to be the home version of Windows 2000. But it was buggy and crashed allot because it was rushed out. It is the last version of Windows 9X
21:14 My friend and I used to rock to that one Beck song that came with Windows Media Player. We'd sing it poorly to the chagrin of our parents in the car. I'm surprised I haven't been disowned.
When Michael went all "What were they thinking?" I immediately thought of the Angry Video Game Nerd, he says that a lot. Also, I feel oddly nostalgic towards Clippy, my junior high years were spent with Office 2003 and Windows XP.
Of course, that's because you bought the upgraded version of Windows ME. If you buy the retail version or the OEM version and install it from scratch, there is no problem such as the sound of Windows 98 or the intro video not turning off.
Had Windows ME on my first Compaq computer in 2000. Its startup song wss the best, so good I put it on one of my CD mixes lol. So manh memories, though I try to forget all the issues it had lol
So, the "Promotional step up" was sold in a store, but the "Standard" one was promotional and not for sale in stores. 🤔 I'm joking, lol. I just find it funny.
Promo copies are usually given to employees, important customers or handed out at trade shows I think. My promo copies are from trade shows and conferences at least.
The first computer I actually owned -- as opposed to being a hand-me-down from my dad -- had Windows Me on it. I must admit the only real thing I did on it was change the Windows Media Player skins and play around with the fonts. Oh yeah, and play Baldurs Gate 2 and Icewind Dale on it and write silly fantasy stories. I got it when working in Ireland and it was a fixture in my first independent flat after I moved out of my mum's. I made up mix tape inlays on it. Happy days.
Windows ME was a version of Windows that had lots of new features, but thanks to being MS-DOD based, it became a quite unstable OS. Well... Thanks to Windows ME, Microsoft learned a good lesson and made Windows XP, as everyone wanted this OS to be.
I love the Microsoft CDs from that era. The crazy holographic designs covering the whole disc were really beautiful.
Microsoft should go back to the old route it's less expensive than all this modern non sense and I feel like it's pretty stupid making everything digital I miss actually using a game disk on a computer growing up. They're easily replaceable and not bound to ridiculous policies and allow you to keep your computer for a lifetime. If Microsoft not saying they will ever go back to Windows XP if they run out of ideas then I'm all in for the support I hate how scattered newer Windows start menus are it's annoying.
Oh yeah, i especially like the XP one
i got a CD for windows 98SE (somewhere) and it has the same olographic design and i love that to
@@marijnmf2805 i got 2 xp cds. they look marvelous
@@TechnoMinded-qp5inthe problem is most modern PCs don’t have a disk drive
Always glad to see a new Michael MJD video on the weekend!
Exactly!
Yes epic
I agree!!! He and Linux TH-camr Savy Nik both belong in The Broadcast Fall of Fame.and The ASMR Hall of Fame.
We used Windows Me for about 4 years before getting a upgrade copy of XP. It wasnt super stable but it depended on what you were trying to do since I think the instability was due to changes to the driver model in preparation for switching consumers to the NT kernal. We had a cheap flatbed scanner and I dont know what the driver or software was doing under the hood, but whenever we installed the drivers to use it that install of Me would be dead within days. We had to get rid of the scanner since it was toxic to Windows Me.
What is MJD about?
A guy having a blast from the past whilst everything can and will go wrong from time to time.
😆 as real as it gets
I feel like murphy has a personal vendetta against mjd
He's gonna take you back to the past
To install the shitty hardware that suck ass
you know michal MJD
20:02 "What were they thinking?!"
That sounds so AVGN
Great Video Michael! 👍👍
20:24 well sung 👍😂
Just curious is there a way to know what song it was.
@@googaagoogaa12345678content id sux a** (official music video) by mjd songs
I love garage/yard sales! What a score!
I got all my first PCs and parts from garage sales when I started tinkering and building my first PCs in the early 2000s.
I started to build my own pc since my dad would complain all the time we were slowing down the only pc in the house that was shared with 5 others.
They may have been old parts not very capable of gaming much, but I was happy to have my own pc that i put together that ran.
When I worked in the stock room at Computer City here in Buffalo, I got a promotional copy of Windows 98. It's not even in a box, it's just a cardboard sleeve that contains the CD-ROM. I miss that place, it was one of the few jobs I loved because we were the first to see the newest hardware and software before we put it out on the sales floor. Good times.
Back in those days as a teen, I have never been so excited to get Windows ME upgrade over Windows 95... and also office 2000... great memories...
I LOVED the Windows Movie Maker! Used it all the time for videos and slideshows with audio, which I would burn to CD for friends and family. I was so sad when it was discontinued. Of course better software came along, but I'll always remember Movie Maker very fondly.
Born and raised in Brazil I've never seen an original copy of Windows neither office. They do exist but usually there is two situations: It came with the computer without a box or you bought a pirate one.
I only have original windows because I got a student key here on Brazil XD, I don't even actually use it as a Linux user
Eu também nunca vi!🤣😂
I remember that my very first gaming PC that I built myself in early 2001 which had a 1 GHz Pentium III cpu with 256 mb of ram. I remember that I originally had Windows ME on it and then I later upgraded it to Windows XP in 2002.
🎵 "There was a song that played that would get this video Content ID'd, so I had to mute it." 🎵 killed me with laughter. 🤣
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ohhh, I started designing websites on frontpage 2000 back in 2005! What a throwback in time.
16:08 Windows 98 also had the NT startup sound when upgrading Windows 3x or 95 to 98.
Yep
i didn't know about that only thing what i remember it has a windows 98 startup sound only
@@ahmadzahid266 Well, it depends on the version, I think this one only happens in the second edition.
Pretty strange decision
@@orbitron The only reason I can think of is they wanted a "cool" sound effect to play for upgrading your computer to Windows ME, and I guess didn't have the time to get something unique. Given that ME was aimed at consumers, most weren't likely to have any experience with NT, so it'd just come across as "oh hey, cool sound."
16:18
yes, NT 5.0 Beta DID use NT 4.0 sounds up to Build 1631, when after that it used the actual NT 5.0 startup, but kept the NT 4.0 shutdown.
Now I got to note that after Beta 1, NT 5.0 used its own startup. He said "NT 5.0 Beta", but the NT 4.0 startup was never used in the Beta stages, just the shutdown sound was only used.
I usually come to this channel to kick back and both chill and geek out over tech, but that moment at 20:37 had me laughing out loud. Your jokes are the best! :-)
And that's why i love thrifting so much, the stuff that some people have is insane!
I have the promotional step up (blue box) myself, since the 1st day it came out. I've upgraded my Windows 98 HP Omnibook with this. Strangely enough it seems I am one of the few people that actually liked Me, besides their bugs and quirks (and they had quite a few).
I liked vista still do
Some people said ME was o.k. if you did all the updates but that was a problem for people with slow dial-up connections.
I'm with ya. I liked ME when it came out. I actually have 3 desktops in my collection with it.
I love the days of big box software retail. Flash in the pan but so cool. Stores dedicated to software, ala book or video game stores.
Nice score at the garage sale! You never know what you might find, especially if you get in early.
Why is MJD actually good at singing?
"There was A SONG THAT PLAYED THAT WOULD GET THIS VIDEO CONTENT ID'ED SO I HAD TO MUTE IT!"
beautiful package microsoft was doing very well that era, when we bought a microsoft box it was like a wonderful thing.
To be honest in the past, when I was a kid, I remember windows ME has so many bugs and crashed so many times, we used the windows 2000 which was based on the NT system. We're more stable at this time. They just released the ME together with the 2000. One for the office and businesses and the Me was for "home" users.
Maaaan Movie Maker took me back. I first used it on Windows 98 and then XP in primary school. And in present day I edit videos for a living :')
(also, jelly of your boxed OS collection)
Always love WindowsMe. I've used it since day one and still use it for my retro gaming machine.
Shockingly, I had minimal issues with windows ME back when it was still relevant. I had bought my first brand new desktop with it preinstalled, and for word processing and email it wasn't too bad. I did end up purchasing Windows XP home about two years later, but in the time I used it, it was pretty damn good!
Microsoft aesthetics from 2000s is so comfy. I am rewatching your old videos ❤ Personally had no problems with Windows Me.
Brilliant condition too!
That Windowa ME CD is just gorgeous, wow
I used to love playing around in Frontpage and Publisher, now both gone, sadly. Thanks for sharing this!
Publisher still lives in Office, but it‘s deprecated😢
@@KanleyStubrick You're kidding? How do I access it these days?
I've got to say, that was a really big brain play for putting capture card footage of the install and programs on a still frame of the setup
Always glad to see a Micheal MJD video in my notifications!
I have no idea how you find this stuff!!! Can’t wait for the ~experience~
19:30 its like a custom welcome skin going with windows media player, and we can see it only waching this wellcome video after the system installation. i remember something around it from my computer experiense when i was about 10 y o and doing experiments with those win9x OSes on my first PIII machine. i think then i had found this skin in one of media player folders. sry4myeng, its not my native, so
and thank you Michael! so nostalgic content!. как у нас говорят, ламповый видос)
I love retro tech
The start up sound is the best part of Me.
Simply, This video is legendary 👏🏻
Keep up Michael
30:05 logo design is my passion
MJD you have a hilarious dry sense of humor
Love this series :)
Its been a while since I watched this guys video and I remember why I subscribed damn love it!
3:00 Windows 2000 Professional is for both Home and Professional use. Windows ME is for torturing spies only* FTFY
I actually had a Windows ME machine that I never connected to the internet, complete with Office 2000 already installed. I actually used that machine to type most of my reports and essays in high school between 2007 and 2010.
Michael mjd local garage sale: 1 dollar windows copy
My local garage sale: 5 dollars pirated dvd
Now, only if you could manifest a D.V.D player.
18:06 reflexively prepared to skip ad when that music started.
I believe there's easter eggs in that office.. hahaha high school days...
I remember back in the day my buddy had a brand new Micron Windows ME pc that he'd just gotten. I was jealous and wanted to upgrade my 98 to ME. Somehow we managed to get the OEM restore CD from the Micron to load up and install on my machine. I dumped it a day later but I remember being so excited to load it and then promptly found out it was trash. Frontpage on the other hand I loved. It was great for editing style sheets and the split-view (code-wysiswyg) was my favorite.
Windows 2000 is still one of my favorites. Used practically no resources and was super stable.
Because the video was only 320x240 so they framed an image of video player then bigger wallpaper of 4 colors over video mpeg1 hence no interface
“Windows Me First” sounds like if they continued making Windows Me and named it like “Xbox One”. The second edition of Windows Me could’ve been “Windows Me Two”.
Got a kick outta this video. Brought back lots of memories.
Oh my gosh, Front Page. I actually wanted that at some point. That takes me way back!
In high school they had us using Frontpage 2000 and it made me so frustrated. We were able to get funding after the first month to get Dreamweaver (was Macromedia at that time) and it was amazing night/day difference. I loved it and making the school’s website went from shitty to amazing (I was the webmaster so all my stuff had to be a tier above everyone else’s, and I think I managed it, imho).
you know its a good day when Michael MJD posts
The design of the boxes are NICE
I love the "windows me being windows me" part
also I loved the "There was a song that played that would get this video Content ID'd so I had to mute it" part
Beck
I had Windows ME on my first PC. I remember people complaining about compatibility issues, but I never had any problems. But I upgraded to XP when that came out.
Frontpage 2000 got me to watch this vid lol. I LOVED THAT TOOL AS A KID! Thanks to stupid stuff I never achieved my dream of being a software developer/ game development, but I'm only 35 and I'm getting back into it. Hope its not too late!
Box : **missing a flap**
Book : **has a little bit of water**
MJD : My dissapointment is unmesurable and my day is ruined.
you know Michael, I was quite good because Windows was a different place, even PC's could have been rightly collectible at Garage Sale.
I randomly got a free 'promotional copy' of Windows Millennium upgrade edition sent to me. I have no idea who sent it, or why because it just turned up on my door one day. No note or anything suggesting who it was from, but it was addressed to me. I think I had upgraded to AMD's new 1Ghz Athlon CPU around the same time, it was a big issue as they broke the 1Ghz barrier - so I've always assumed it was something to do with AMD. I don't quite remember the specifics.
While I don't remember the actual upgrade to Windows Millennium, I remember most of the additional features not working here in the UK. I think one of them was Internet over TV (or something like that) and it just didn't even work with my ATI All-In-Wonder TV card (but that could have just been ATI's poor driver support). I think I quit using it pretty quickly as I went back to Windows 98SE until XP. From what I remember, I'm pretty sure it messed up my config/autoexec custom boot settings for games and I couldn't boot back into DOS. I still have the Windows Millennium upgrade disc itself.
What an amazing find 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Ahhh this brings back soo many.
Windows ME was designed to be the home version of Windows 2000. But it was buggy and crashed allot because it was rushed out. It is the last version of Windows 9X
but in this video it didnt crash a single time , despite he was doing tasks that normal users do
@Laserdisc9X yeah , this video it didn't crash even ONCE, that means win me wasnt that bad after all
@Laserdisc9X oh okkkkk , now i get it
21:14 My friend and I used to rock to that one Beck song that came with Windows Media Player. We'd sing it poorly to the chagrin of our parents in the car.
I'm surprised I haven't been disowned.
Nice, a new Michael video!
MJD @17:09 : "what could go wrong?"
Me: "oh he didnt...🤦♂️"
Garage Sale Finds is back! Hooray!
2:35
Mjd, you should have asked the seller at the garage how they got a hold of the promotional software right there and then :)
Much better deal than my $40 Solaris 8, wasn't even in the box!
You got scammed
@@near5148 Why, it was at least in the binder.
Awesome video, Michael!
When Michael went all "What were they thinking?" I immediately thought of the Angry Video Game Nerd, he says that a lot.
Also, I feel oddly nostalgic towards Clippy, my junior high years were spent with Office 2003 and Windows XP.
You should try and make a video for your channel using windows movie maker would probably be a total nightmare but it would be cool
Of course, that's because you bought the upgraded version of Windows ME. If you buy the retail version or the OEM version and install it from scratch, there is no problem such as the sound of Windows 98 or the intro video not turning off.
Had Windows ME on my first Compaq computer in 2000. Its startup song wss the best, so good I put it on one of my CD mixes lol. So manh memories, though I try to forget all the issues it had lol
My biggest issues with ME was the instability of uptime. The computer had to be rebooted every 48 hours like clockwork. XP was a million times better.
FACTS!!!!!! Thank you so much man, you're the best!!!!!!!!!
So, the "Promotional step up" was sold in a store, but the "Standard" one was promotional and not for sale in stores. 🤔
I'm joking, lol. I just find it funny.
MJD's Awesome Gate Company😂
I've never seen Michael casually type "comic sans" before🤣
Wow, you have a new table? It looks nice
He moved to a new place you didn't know?
The old windows setups played the startup sound of the version of windows you are running.
Loved your singing skills LOL
Woah new table
Windows ME: Look we are supporting new hardware. me watching this video: hmmmm, its 2022 maybe its still supporting new hardware......
I love your Videos Michel Mjd !!! ❤
Wow, I wish I could get that good deals. Even better would be some thrift stores in my country.
really nice man!! i should be more involved in old pc stuff and doing real vids like you do!!
Promo copies are usually given to employees, important customers or handed out at trade shows I think. My promo copies are from trade shows and conferences at least.
Nice new desk!
After decades, someone got an useful tip from Clippy.
The first computer I actually owned -- as opposed to being a hand-me-down from my dad -- had Windows Me on it. I must admit the only real thing I did on it was change the Windows Media Player skins and play around with the fonts.
Oh yeah, and play Baldurs Gate 2 and Icewind Dale on it and write silly fantasy stories. I got it when working in Ireland and it was a fixture in my first independent flat after I moved out of my mum's. I made up mix tape inlays on it.
Happy days.
I have original books on BIOS, Win 95 and Win ME but all in polish, but they're in poor shape. You want them?
Are there any scans of these online
@@BulletproofKuloodporny no, there aren't. The books are still readable though just kinda yellowed and one book is missing the back of the cover
@@RimFaxxe can you make scans of these
@@BulletproofKuloodporny I don't have a scanner
@@RimFaxxe oh
31:11 I love your phone number 😂 (For any younger people watching, it's a reference to an 80s song.)
No fkn fair
I've been searching garage sales, recycling centers, thrift stores and flea markets for this kind of stuff!
Windows ME was a version of Windows that had lots of new features, but thanks to being MS-DOD based, it became a quite unstable OS. Well... Thanks to Windows ME, Microsoft learned a good lesson and made Windows XP, as everyone wanted this OS to be.
I got Office 2000 Professional recently. It came on 2 discs. I like the gold design of your premium version.
I hope you send in that registration card and post a followup video when you get those floppy disks.
Yayyy new video 😄
Congrats u first 🎉