The $1.00 Windows Me Experience!

The $1.00 Windows Me Experience! - Garage Sale Finds

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I picked up a boxed copy of Windows Me at a garage sale recently for $1.00. A few other Microsoft programs came along with it. Today we're going to spend almost 40 minutes unboxing and installing all of it!
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Chapters:
00:00 - Unboxings
14:51 - Windows Me Installation
18:48 - Windows Me being Windows Me
20:19 - Media Player & Movie Maker
24:15 - Building a Website with FrontPage & PhotoDraw
31:49 - ONESTOP.MID interlude
32:52 - Project Management with Project 98
37:00 - Outro
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@Michael-zf1ko Жыл бұрын

I love the Microsoft CDs from that era. The crazy holographic designs covering the whole disc were really beautiful.

@TechnoMinded-qp5in 7 ай бұрын

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.

@tttdssdff2267 Ай бұрын

Oh yeah, i especially like the XP one

@marijnmf2805 24 күн бұрын

i got a CD for windows 98SE (somewhere) and it has the same olographic design and i love that to

@tttdssdff2267 24 күн бұрын

@@marijnmf2805 i got 2 xp cds. they look marvelous

@cursorguy 13 күн бұрын

@@TechnoMinded-qp5inthe problem is most modern PCs don’t have a disk drive

@ragalthor Жыл бұрын

What is MJD about? A guy having a blast from the past whilst everything can and will go wrong from time to time.

@rustymixer2886 Жыл бұрын

😆 as real as it gets

@Palmtop_User Ай бұрын

I feel like murphy has a personal vendetta against mjd

@NoahClevinger Жыл бұрын

Always glad to see a new Michael MJD video on the weekend!

@ninethetwotailedfox Жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@SunIsLost Жыл бұрын

Yes epic

@AssociateMinisterReserveDeacon Жыл бұрын

I agree!!! He and Linux KZfaqr Savy Nik both belong in The Broadcast Fall of Fame.and The ASMR Hall of Fame.

@changeofspace85 Жыл бұрын

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.

@retrozvoc6189 Жыл бұрын

20:02 "What were they thinking?!" That sounds so AVGN

@shibolinemress8913 Жыл бұрын

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.

@JustPyroYT Жыл бұрын

Great Video Michael! 👍👍 20:24 well sung 👍😂

@LeftoverBeefcake Жыл бұрын

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.

@TheCanadianToast Жыл бұрын

🎵 "There was a song that played that would get this video Content ID'd, so I had to mute it." 🎵 killed me with laughter. 🤣

@goqwertygo Жыл бұрын

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.

@LucasLealDev Жыл бұрын

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.

@airgeadlamh Жыл бұрын

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

@KimSeiji Жыл бұрын

Eu também nunca vi!🤣😂

@kenrock2 Жыл бұрын

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...

@Thekinggamelon Жыл бұрын

16:08 Windows 98 also had the NT startup sound when upgrading Windows 3x or 95 to 98.

@SunIsLost Жыл бұрын

Yep

@ahmadzahid266 Жыл бұрын

i didn't know about that only thing what i remember it has a windows 98 startup sound only

@Thekinggamelon Жыл бұрын

@@ahmadzahid266 Well, it depends on the version, I think this one only happens in the second edition.

@orbitron Жыл бұрын

Pretty strange decision

@IsmailofeRegime Жыл бұрын

@@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."

@sburton015 Жыл бұрын

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.

@Canleaf08 Жыл бұрын

ohhh, I started designing websites on frontpage 2000 back in 2005! What a throwback in time.

@MarcoGPUtuber Жыл бұрын

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.

@dangero2000 Жыл бұрын

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! :-)

@nadonadia2521 Жыл бұрын

beautiful package microsoft was doing very well that era, when we bought a microsoft box it was like a wonderful thing.

@sonic2000gr Жыл бұрын

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).

@BloominFleury29 Жыл бұрын

I liked vista still do

@brentsummers7377 Жыл бұрын

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.

@lftdblazer Жыл бұрын

I'm with ya. I liked ME when it came out. I actually have 3 desktops in my collection with it.

@cytwc Жыл бұрын

Always love WindowsMe. I've used it since day one and still use it for my retro gaming machine.

@nourhanahmad6973 Жыл бұрын

Simply, This video is legendary 👏🏻 Keep up Michael

@bramvandenbroeck5060 Жыл бұрын

And that's why i love thrifting so much, the stuff that some people have is insane!

@Filipcreate 19 күн бұрын

Microsoft aesthetics from 2000s is so comfy. I am rewatching your old videos ❤ Personally had no problems with Windows Me.

@awordabout...3061 Жыл бұрын

I used to love playing around in Frontpage and Publisher, now both gone, sadly. Thanks for sharing this!

@yasminealexandraaa Жыл бұрын

I have no idea how you find this stuff!!! Can’t wait for the ~experience~

@shiningfilmzph Жыл бұрын

Its been a while since I watched this guys video and I remember why I subscribed damn love it!

@Howlin000 Жыл бұрын

That Windowa ME CD is just gorgeous, wow

@ninethetwotailedfox Жыл бұрын

Always glad to see a Micheal MJD video in my notifications!

@Ozzianman Жыл бұрын

18:06 reflexively prepared to skip ad when that music started.

@edg2919 Жыл бұрын

Nice score at the garage sale! You never know what you might find, especially if you get in early.

@blu3_enjoy 11 ай бұрын

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.

@richardeperjesi2933 Ай бұрын

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.

@Super80sMan Жыл бұрын

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.

@TheRandom_Channel_idk Жыл бұрын

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.

@cyrodiilwarrior Жыл бұрын

Brilliant condition too!

@K9arcade Жыл бұрын

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)

@brandinop6379 9 ай бұрын

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!

@divingadventures121 4 ай бұрын

Got a kick outta this video. Brought back lots of memories.

@penut6636 Жыл бұрын

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

@Velo1010 Жыл бұрын

The start up sound is the best part of Me.

@jao69420 Жыл бұрын

Michael mjd local garage sale: 1 dollar windows copy My local garage sale: 5 dollars pirated dvd

@swr8bit Ай бұрын

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)

@kyleb3293 Жыл бұрын

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.

@frvo Жыл бұрын

What an amazing find 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@Speed.Racer.5 Жыл бұрын

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.

@StoneUnturned Жыл бұрын

Love this series :)

@cosmicrevolt7476 2 ай бұрын

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!

@liquidalloy Жыл бұрын

Windows 2000 is still one of my favorites. Used practically no resources and was super stable.

@Kamletue Жыл бұрын

The design of the boxes are NICE

@retrocompaq5212 Жыл бұрын

really nice man!! i should be more involved in old pc stuff and doing real vids like you do!!

@blainepalmerza Жыл бұрын

Awesome video, Michael!

@tsimeone Жыл бұрын

Ahhh this brings back soo many.

@russiaman9407 Жыл бұрын

Garage Sale Finds is back! Hooray!

@wertywerrtyson5529 Жыл бұрын

I got Office 2000 Professional recently. It came on 2 discs. I like the gold design of your premium version.

@ajohna2522 Жыл бұрын

FACTS!!!!!! Thank you so much man, you're the best!!!!!!!!!

@mybigfatpolishlife Жыл бұрын

Frontpage 2000 still has the puzzle pieces it's just a little more subtle

@Mickstar305 Жыл бұрын

MJD you have a hilarious dry sense of humor

@Rockhead84 10 ай бұрын

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

@Philfluffer Жыл бұрын

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).

@falcontitaniumniloy7722 Жыл бұрын

I love retro tech

@kitty2ism633 Жыл бұрын

Nice vid! Fun fact i actually got curious and looked up project and apparently it comes on at least 11 discs (looks like it could be more but the old listing i found in ebay only showed the discs in stacks with 11 at the top of one)

@cleverlyblonde Жыл бұрын

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.

@winxstellachannel4843 Жыл бұрын

I love your Videos Michel Mjd !!! ❤

@HunterTheKerbal Жыл бұрын

you know its a good day when Michael MJD posts

@airfixer9461 Жыл бұрын

Great video Michael, I just love those unboxing & install vids...awesome stuff 😉

@dataterminal Жыл бұрын

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.

@chupathingy5862 4 ай бұрын

You got to sail over ME and go straight to XP. I wasn't so lucky. It was... a difficult time to say the least. Y'ever see multiple bluescreens stack on each other? It's a regular bluescreen but all the memory addresses kept changing. It was incredible. Using TweakUI from a pc mag coverdisk, I modded my bluescreen to make it a little less intimidating.

@easycompzeelandold2521 Жыл бұрын

7:44 If you look at the art with more distance you can see a completed puzzle containing of 4 pieces at the 2000 version the version on which I build my first completely own build websites :D

@SunIsLost Жыл бұрын

Nice, a new Michael video!

@louiseogden1296 Жыл бұрын

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.

@steve_1507 Жыл бұрын

Nice new desk!

@Eppopower Жыл бұрын

Hi Michael, If you want to revisit the "SSD in the 98 PC" idea; you can! If you use a PCI SATA Controller (with a BIOS), you can use more of the potential speed of the SSD! I'd love to see you try!

@nightwing09x Жыл бұрын

Great video!

@treyparker8303 Жыл бұрын

Much better deal than my $40 Solaris 8, wasn't even in the box!

@near5148 Жыл бұрын

You got scammed

@treyparker8303 Жыл бұрын

@@near5148 Why, it was at least in the binder.

@DeckMower Жыл бұрын

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.

@crystalsheep1434 Жыл бұрын

Having never used windows movie maker i am impressed with it given it was free (with Windows) and at the time there weren't alot of options

@Jordansklar0698 Жыл бұрын

best website totorial ever lmbo ur awesome man love your videos god bless🤣😂

@rcmero Жыл бұрын

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.

@axelmak6868 Жыл бұрын

I also got a boxed copy of Office 2000 Pro, but the book in Pro ver. is thinner Also a sealed copy of Windows 2000 box. The last one that doesn't require an online activation.

@ceriaz Жыл бұрын

I can't believe you managed to use Windows Me without a bluescreen within 30mins. At launch when I upgraded, it would be a dice roll if Winamp mp3 playback and being connected to the internet via dial-up was too much for the OS. I rolled-back to Win98SE and then up to an XP Beta fairly quickly.

@philtkaswahl2124 Жыл бұрын

I remember the update path for the family PC was 3.1 > 98 > XP. Then by the time I had a personal setup it was XP > 7 > 10. Though currently 10 is a dual boot with Manjaro, with the Windows boot mostly for gaming.

@TheRedCap Жыл бұрын

If you primarily use Steam for gaming, try using Proton on Linux. As long as your PC is good enough to handle a little bit of overhead, it works great.

@philtkaswahl2124 Жыл бұрын

@@TheRedCap Proton isn't quite there yet for everything I play. Once it is, I'll jump over fully.

@TheRedCap Жыл бұрын

@@philtkaswahl2124 Ah. Well for me, I've been stuck on potato PCs and consoles for years, so I'm playing a lot of older games I missed out on right now. Which makes Proton perfect for me.

@markrayers9675 Жыл бұрын

The old windows setups played the startup sound of the version of windows you are running.

@maksymiliankuznik4856 Жыл бұрын

Wow, I wish I could get that good deals. Even better would be some thrift stores in my country.

@TheRandom_Channel_idk Жыл бұрын

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

@AccSwtch50 Жыл бұрын

Beck

@user-qt2lo2cu4x 7 ай бұрын

MJD's Awesome Gate Company😂

@Cart1416 Жыл бұрын

Woah new table

@lionsfire362 Жыл бұрын

Those are nice fines!

@AerianTelevision Жыл бұрын

i've never even seen one of these, would rank it in the same tier as the $5 98 pc

@Alpha8713 Жыл бұрын

I hope you send in that registration card and post a followup video when you get those floppy disks.

@L0rdOfThePies Жыл бұрын

30:05 logo design is my passion

@Peterisgb 4 күн бұрын

4:25 my order was 95, 98SE, 2000, XP etc. never did ME but used 2000 at school and at home.

@coreybabcock2023 Жыл бұрын

I used to use that office update site alot around 2002 to 2005

@lolpl0000 Жыл бұрын

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 :)

@MrDragonflair Жыл бұрын

MJD @17:09 : "what could go wrong?" Me: "oh he didnt...🤦‍♂️"

@cobrag0318 Жыл бұрын

Iirc, though it only mentions windows 9xs as possible previous version to upgrade from, I believe at least on a clean install, windows me upgrade accepts a windows 3.x disk 1 install floppy as proof of ownership when prompting for the install media from a previous version of windows. I want to say Windows XP will as well, though I could be mistaken on that one. Not sure about if either accepts 3.x as valid when choosing to upgrade from a previous installation method.

@SunIsLost Жыл бұрын

19:15 nice rhythm

@MonamiTech Жыл бұрын

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.