Windows Millennium Edition ( ME ) (last update to the Windows ME: June 3 , 2001)

The latest version of Windows is "Windows Millennium Edition", short "Windows ME",
which will replace Windows98 and its Second Edition (SE).
I have installed it to have a first look at the changes, keeping in mind that Microsoft is positioning
Windows ME for Home-Users and Windows2000 for business users.

Each time Microsoft releases a new version of Windows, it grows in size and requires more
disk-capacity for installation. To avoid to prompt for the Windows ME CD-ROM later during
changes of the configuration, the Windows ME setup copies 151 Mbytes of SETUP (CAB)-files
to the harddisk (which could be moved to a different disk or delete if you are short on disk-capacity on the
C-drive).

Each time Microsoft released in the past a new version of Windows, they included some utilities,
which you had to purchase separately from a different vendor for the previous versions of
Windows, and with Windows ME Microsoft has implemented in the Windows Explorer support for
"Compressed Folders" / ZIP-files

Windows95/98:

A first obvious difference: Win95/98: Selecting "Network Neighborhood" from the desktop will display the list of computers in your workgroup. Windows ME : The desktop-icons are very similar to Windows2000, there is no "Network Neighborhood" but a "My Network Places" and to view the list of computers , you need to click through to "Entire Network" and then on your workgroup:

- Automatic Search for Network Shares and display in "My Network Places" (created Feb.11,2001)

All other networking items (Sharing a folder or drive, mapping a network drive) are the
same as on Windows95/98.

- Sharing using the Home Networking Wizard

	Modem Networking
	Unlike Windows95/98, where you access Dial-Up-Networking via "My Computer" on your desktop, you get on Windows ME to Dial-Up-Networking via the Start-menu: "Settings" / "Dial-Up Networking": - Defining a Dial-Up Networking Connection (created Aug. 27,2000) - Defining an Internet Connection (created Aug. 27,2000) - Making a Dial-Up Networking Connection (created Aug. 27,2000) - Making a Connection to the Internet (created Aug. 2000) - Dial-Up Networking Server (Identical to Windows98) - Personal Firewall (created Nov. 1, 2000) For more information on Modem-Networking, see the Dial-Up Networking under Win95/98.
	- Direct Cable Connection
	- USB Networking Indroduction (created: jan. 7, 2001) - Windows9x/ME USB Networking Installation (created: jan. 7, 2001)

- TweakUI for Win95/98/ME/NT/2000 (created Oct. 21,2000)