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Windows ME (Millennium Edition) is a graphical home operating system developed by the Microsoft Corporation and launched on September 14, 2000. Windows ME was the final in the series of Windows 9x operating systems. Windows ME succeeded Windows 98 SE, and was targeted specifically at home PC users. Although, Windows ME was criticized for being insecure, slow, and very buggy. Despite this, Windows ME had a high percentage of usage. Microsoft ended support for Windows ME on July 11, 2006, only 6 years after the initial release.

Features

Windows ME featured the shell enhancements inherited from Windows 2000 such as personalized menus, customizable Windows Explorer toolbars, auto-complete in Windows Explorer address bar and Run box, Windows 2000 advanced file type association features, displaying comments in shortcuts as tooltips, extensible columns in Details view (IColumnProvider interface), icon overlays, integrated search pane in Windows Explorer, sort by name function for menus, Places bar in common dialogs for Open and Save, cascading Start menu special folders, some Plus! 95 and Plus! 98 themes, and updated graphics. The notification area in Windows ME and later supported 16-bit high color icons. The Multimedia control panel was also updated from Windows 98 SE. Taskbar and Start Menu options allowed disabling of the drag and drop feature and could prevent moving or resizing the taskbar, which was easier for new users.

Hardware support improvements

• Faster boot times: Windows ME features numerous improvements for improving cold boottime, pre and post-logon boot times and time required for resuming from hibernation. Processing of real mode configuration files, CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT, is bypassed at startup and essential real mode drivers like HIMEM.SYS and SMARTDRV.EXE are embedded into IO.SYS. The registry is loaded only once; for efficient loading, the registry is split into three files instead of two (SYSTEM.DAT and USER.DAT), with the new file CLASSES.DATcontaining the contents of the hive HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT required for boot loaded initially. Plug and Play device enumeration is more parallelized than in Windows 98 SE. Boot time is not affected due to unavailability of a DHCP server or other network components. There are also optimizations to prevent boot slowdown due to BIOS POST operations.
• USB Human Interface Device Class: Generic support for 5-button mice is also included as standard and installing IntelliPoint allows reassigning the programmable buttons.
• Windows Image Acquisition: Windows ME introduced the Windows Image Acquisition APIfor a standardized method of allowing Windows applications to transparently and more easily communicate with image acquisition devices, such as digital cameras and scanners. WIA intended to improve the configuration and the user interface for interacting with scanners and such devices, (which were previously supported by the TWAIN standard) and simplify writing device drivers for developers. WIA also includes support for USB still image capture device classes such as scanners and cameras through the Picture Transfer Protocol.
• Improved power management and suspend/resume operations: The OEM version of Windows ME supports OS-controlled ACPI S4 sleep state (hibernation) and other power management features without manufacturer-supplied drivers. 
• USB and FireWire support improvements: Windows ME is the only operating system in the Windows 9x series that includes generic drivers for USB mass storage devices and USB printers.^[21] Support for FireWire SBP-2 scanners and storage devices is also improved.
• The waveOut, DirectSound, and DirectShow APIs support non-PCM formats such as AC-3 orWMA over S/PDIF. 

Downloads

Windows ME (OEM Version) (.7z)
Windows ME (Upgrade Version) (.7z)

After that you can just put the files on a Floppy disk or a CD-ROM and install Windows ME on a computer, or you can use Virtualbox to emulate it.

Windows ME and all of its versions requires a serial key to operate fully. You may use the software for 30 days, after which a product key is required.

Windows ME and its variants require a CD key to operate fully. Because no Windows ME versions or variants are available for purchase by Microsoft whatsoever, and none of Windows ME versions or variants are supported, it is officially considered abandonware, Therefor we can legally provide serial keys for the software that you can use. We do ask that you please buy Windows ME to support Microsoft, however!

Notice: Windows 2000 and above have variants that are still supported by Microsoft. This is the final version of Windows that we will provide serial keys for.

Serial Keys

Windows ME Upgrade (from Windows 98): FYG4R-3RK8M-DJGPJ-9GTRY-Q7Q49
Windows ME Retail: GY9FQ-2J9MR-PM78B-J9CT-X8RDG


Info

Developed by: Microsoft Corporation
Release date: September 14, 2000
Latest version: 4.90 (Released in September 14, 2000)
Source model: Closed source
License: Proprietary commercial software
Preceded by: Windows 98 SE (in 1999)
Succeeded by: Windows XP (in 2001)
Support status: Unsupported as of July 11, 2006
System requirements:
Pentium 1 (150-MHz) processor or better
32 MB of RAM
350 MB hard drive with at least 320 MB of free hard-disk space
VGA resolution or higher (It is still possible to install an EGA driver from Windows 3.11. NOTICE: This is the final version of Windows to allow the EGA driver to install. It fails to install on Windows 2000 and above.)
Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device

Recommended Downloadable programs
Windows ME can download programs. You can click on the links below and simply put the files on your floppy disk or CD-Rom.

• Audio Time
• Classic FTP
• Debut
• Internet Explorer 6

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