Can't wait for "The Windows Vista Experience: Was it THAT Bad?".

My mother was one of the technologically incompetent people recruited to test Windows ME and Microsoft Bob for ease of use, so I feel as though my family is directly responsible for their failures to some extent.

I remember some joke ad that went along the lines of "Microsoft is proud to announce the combination of Windows CE, ME and NT... Windows CEMENT"

I remember when Windows XP came out...
Simplified so many things.
Really was a great OS.

Remember:
FARTS-BALLS-FARTS-BALLS-FARTS is a valid Windows Me product key.

That "head space" skin for media player is the most late 90s thing I have ever seen.

"Hey, Windows help system, I have a problem, what should I do?"
"Did you plug the device in?"
"Yes."
"Did you [another blindingly obvious option]?
"Yes"
"Windows help was unable to solve your problem. Please contact your administrator." (which is likely you)

if it could speak, the computer wouldve been cursing you out the whole time.

if you would have told me 20 years ago that in two decades, I will willingly watch a video of a guy installing Win ME for half an hour, I would have called you insane

"This program has performed an illegal operation." - this used to be the bane of IT existence

4:43 "Hmm, I don't have one of those watches here, but I do have..."
Pulls out knife

I had that exact same computer! That was also my only experience with ME. This brought back a lot of fond memories for me, mostly of Windows Media Player and its goofy skins. Also some miserable memories. Count yourself lucky that you never used that system restore- it was AWFUL. The whole OS became unstable after using it (if it wasn't already).

One day, we all played Space Cadet pinball for the last time without even knowing it...

"Unknown has caused a problem in unknown. Unknown is closed"

I still remember that oh so informative error message from a friends WinME computer back then...

"Now there's a startup I haven't heard in a very long time."
"Do you know Windows Millennium Edition?"
"Well, of course I know it. It's ME."
10:50

I was too young to remember all the ins and outs of my family's Me machine (a Dell Dimension 8100 to be exact), but I do recall it being the only computer we've ever owned to be utterly crippled by malware (and probably just regular use). I think the PC was only 3-4 years old before we replaced it with two XP towers that went strong until we finally retired them in 2012-2013.

It always makes me feel very melancholic, when you have a fresh install of an old version of windows, and all those new and shiny internet connected programs can't connect to anything anymore. Gone are MSN messenger and all those games.

all those media player skins are mind-blowingly cool

Any 90s kid like myself would sit for hours looking at the effects on music

8:06 - quite neat that it plays the Windows NT 4.0 boot sound!