Hi PC-Workers, Have a Dell Dimension 4100 series, Pentium III Processor 933 MHz, 128MB SDRAM and it came with Windows ME factory installed. I'm not very enthused about W-ME and I would like to uninstall it and then install W-98SE. ME has a lot of things on it that I have no use for and never use. There is no uninstall option. Contacted Dell support and was told by the technician that I could not uninstall ME, that it would cause all kinds of problems and that I should reformat the hard drive or just install W-98 over the top of ME. (I had a hard time understanding the man because he had such a foreign accent.) He said he would send me an e-mail with instructions how to do this. I never received the e-mail. When I ran the W-98 disk it told me that I could not downgrade to an earlier version of windows.
A few days later I called Dell again and spoke to a different Techni- cian who informed me that I had to call Microsoft because it was their software, which I did. The MS tech said I could not just uninstall ME, but he would explain to me how to put W-98 on the machine in what he re- ferred to as a parallel installation and then I could delete the ME files later if I wanted to. He explained that I would have to download all of the latest drivers for W-98, which would take quite a long time. When I do all of that I'm supposed to call MS again and the tech I get to talk to will take me through the rest of the job. According to information I got from a google search there is an uninstall option with instructions, but it has to be saved at the time of installa- tion, which Dell evidently did not do. Probably on instructions from MS. I am wondering if there may be any other options, like adding another hard drive with W-98 on it and making it the "C" drive??? BTW, the drive on the machine now is a 20GB with no partitions---just a "C" drive. Any and all input welcome and appreciated.....thank you. Bob ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
