Windows ME (Millennium Edition) Install Tutorial

Thanks to Ken Choo for the suggestion!
Today, we will be taking a look at how to install Windows ME inside of a Virtual Machine. Windows ME was the last operating system in the Windows 9x series, and it was also the last time that Microsoft had 2 separate Windows releases at one time, Windows ME being for the home user. It was released on September 14, 2000, and was considered a failure due to its stability issues. PCWorld Magazine even called it "Windows Mistake Edition" and placed it 4th in their "Worst Tech Products of All Time"
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Intro music: Approaching Nirvana - Even While
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[MichaelMJD]

Dominic, I sent you a message since you have replies disabled. I have fixed the link in the description, I honestly don't know how I forgot to add that, thanks for the comment! :D

[Rubikari]

The booting tune always hits me right on the feelings.

[colescrustycars]

Listening to this old video, your voice has changed drastically over the years. I had to check and make sure I didnt wonder off onto someone else's channel.

[trumpingwhileblack]

I remember this was on my first computer back in 2001 I believe. I can still hear the AOL "You Got Mail" sound as you got bumped off line then you had to reconnect. Oh, I almost forgot. You could not use the phone and the computer at same time. The horrible gut wrenching sounds of the modem trying to connect. Man, you young cats got it made today! Using the computer then was almost a full-time job! LOL

[chuuisinsane]

If you have Virtualbox, you might as well just get Windows 2000 since Guest Additions doesn’t work on ME.

[topaxx]

I remember, as a kid, i found some files in the \Windows\system32\oobe folder I think, which kinda looked like Windows Me had a setup assistant like Windows XP did. You know something about this?

[tgifford]

A blast from the past!  I think I still have my original Me disk somewhere.
I have to say I don't miss the long install and all the blue screens.
I think the computer I had this installed on came with a 200MHz CPU, an IBM I bought at Radio Shack for $2600.00. Wow those were the days.

[nohandleisavailable]

I am just random guy and I wan to say:
you need 1M subs!

[alexclaudiu]

I have Windows Millennium on a Pentium IV and I can tell you:
1. All ms-dos games that are not speed sensitive to CPU run perfectly. The best video cards for Ms-dos compatibility are the Fx series from GeForce, for sound you need an Aureal Vortex 2, Sound Blaster Live, Audigy 1 or to have a pentium IV motherboard with an ISA slot.
2. Windows Me does not blue screen when you remove the CD, usb stick or floppy while it is being read.
3. It has wireless keyboard and mouse support.
4. The location of a driver is saved.
5. The usb stick does not need a driver.
6. I do not recommend the VDM drivers because there is no longer support for sound in ms-dos, but with VDM you can use advanced stand by functions (suspend to ram).
7. Any usb joystick does not need driver. For Ms-Dos you need a joystick connected to the game port.
8. Windows Me is the most stable, I tested it after installing many programs and games without restarting and it didn't crash.
9. If I had to choose another retro operating system, it would be Windows 95 and in no case Windows 98.

[robertsnyder]

I have that easy accounting and it only works with Windows me. I had trouble with my hard disk and since I tried replacing that I have had one hell of a time getting the system up and running again I have copies and backups but the problem is I don't have me installed I've bought several discs but they don't seem to load is that because they came with Dell computer?

[macinman]

Hey all, Just wanted to say I just finished following this tutorial with VMWare Fusion 7.1.2 on a late 2013 13" macbook pro, without any issues, none of the errors in this video happened for me, and because I tried it on the built in SSD it was even faster then this video.  installed VMWare tools without any issues either.

Windows 98 has also been known to  error as shown in this video for random reason.  I currently own a copy of windows 7 and windows 10 via the free upgrade, but my  primary os choices are os x and linux.  It is fun to mess around with retro stuff though, computer history can be very fun to re visit, especially with virtualization technology.

The video was well done, great Job!


P.S. For those who don't know, you get the grey screen before installing VMware tools because there is no display driver present so it can't display all the colors. When the correct display driver is installed the default desktop is in fact blue.

[jakewessel]

Is there any way to get it to fit 1366x768 as well as 1920x1080? The weird display drives me crazy and was hoping there was a fix…?

[CoolDudeClem]

11:48 Why oh why can't Windows 10 setup be like this and let you choose what you want?

[linux_doggo]

The OEM version is bootable so for ease of use you should´ve used the OEM version

[mindlessgonzo]

Problem. under the device name it says No Valid CDROM device found. Aborting Installation. I'm using Virtualbox.

[dogebrownstonks]

Ya know how many times i got a blue screen of death on a VM running Millenium?







10 times for bootup
14 times during run
and 5 System Is Busy death screens
and a bonus 2 for shutdown



It also took me 1 hour to get the system to boot up properly


How sad

[mentalcelstefan]

ME stands for 'Mistake Edition'

[bluetube]

To get it to fit to your screen you have to go into the advanced settings and change the monitor type to standard television

[jndominica]

Hiren's Boot CD version 8, 9 or 10 works well as a bootable medium with DOS. You can partition from Norton Partition Magic with GUI, and have a bunch of other tools, including a stripped down "mini" build of Windows 98 (later XP). The official floppies have no use, and don't actually boot into Windows.

WinMe requires a lot of diabling and tweaking to work stable, and be functional: to unhide DOS and rip out the system restore / file protection. Not worth the effort compared to win98. I was stuck with Me for a while.

[tegameing]

wait when i am done formating the c drive what do i do to to get to 9:25
HELP