There are several reasons you might want to download Windows 98. For example, if you need to install Windows 98 but you've lost your original Windows 98 Setup CD, downloading a Windows 98 ISO would get you out of that bind.
There are several reasons you might want to download Windows Me. For example, if you need to install Windows Me but you've lost your original Windows Me Setup CD, downloading Windows 95 would get you out of that bind.
You might also want to download Windows Millennium Edition just to try out the operating system or to put it on a second computer at home. Windows can be expensive, so finding a place to download an older operating system like Windows Me for free is an enticing thought.
Where Can I Get Windows ME?
Pretty much everything is available on the internet for free, right?
While there are several places online to download Windows Me, none of them are legal. Windows Me is not distributed online, so there is no legitimate way to download Windows Me, even from Microsoft.
No matter where you find it, any Windows Me download you find online is illegal. The only legal course of action when you need a copy of Windows Me is to actually buy a new copy of Windows Me. It's that simple.
It's important to note as well that even if you did download Windows Me, what you would get is an image of the Windows Me Setup CD. For example, you would probably download an ISO file like windows-me.iso, or something like that. You would then burn that ISO image to a CD that you would then use to install Windows Me.
In many ways, however, what you actually pay for when you legally purchase a copy of Windows Millennium Edition is the product key (sometimes referred to as a CD key or key code, or incorrectly as the serial number). This unique number is required during an installation of Windows Me. So even if you did download Windows Me, you would still need a valid Windows Me product key to install and use Windows.
If you do, in fact, have your Windows Me product key but you're missing your Setup CD, you could argue that, since you did actually purchase Windows Me and you have a valid product key, downloading a Windows Me CD image from anywhere should be within your rights.
At this time, however, the only legal way of obtaining a Windows Me CD is from a legal purchase of the operating system. we suggest contacting Microsoft for a replacement Windows Me Setup CD, assuming you can show proof of purchase.
However, since Windows Me is a retired operating system, you'll have trouble doing that.
Windows 10 is the newest operating system from Microsoft. See Where Can I Download Windows 10? if you're looking for the newest version of Windows.
Where to Find the Windows ME Product Key
If you actually do have a Windows Me CD but you're looking for your product key, there is a way to find it without needing to purchase a new one or use an illegal Windows ME product key you obtained through a keygen or similar means.
Windows 2000 was a modernization of Windows NT 4.0 which brought many of the desktop changes, including Active Desktop, to Microsoft's Windows NT line. Four editions of Windows 2000 were released, Professional, Server, Advanced Server, Datacenter Server. Improvements over NT 4.0 include new Accessibility Options, increased language and locale support, NTFS 3.0, the Encrypting File System and Active Directory. Windows 2000 was first planned to replace both Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0 although using the NT kernel for consumer and professional editions would not happen until Windows 2000's successor, Windows XP.
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Read below or select a release version to get information and downloads for Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 advanced server and BETA copies of Windows 2000 from WinWorld.
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The final RTM build of Windows 2000 is 5.0.2195 which arrived with new NTFS 3.0 support, an on-the-fly Encrypting File System, new Accessibility tools and the Active Desktop, additional language and locale settings. Dynamic disks were introduced as well which allowed Windows to join disks together in a software RAID array. Plug-and-play support was improved compared to Windows NT 4.0.
One noticeable fact right off the bat is that features from Windows 98 have made it into the Windows NT line, like the Active Desktop update, Internet Explorer 5, Windows Driver Model, Internet Connection Sharing, Windows Media Player and WebDAV support. Windows File Protection also arrived with 2000 which protected critical system files by not allowing anything other than Microsoft's Windows Installer or Windows Update package installer modify system files. The System File Checker utility allowed users to preform a manual scan of protected system files (and optionally repair them). Windows 2000 also supported ACPI S4 hibernation, which unlike Windows 98, does not require specific vendor drivers.
For system management Windows 2000 introduced the Microsoft Management Console and a vast majority of system administration tools from Windows NT 4.0 were moved to MMC 'snap-ins'. This includes the the Event Viewer, Task Scheduler, COM+ management, group policy configuration, disk defragmenter, device manager, service control, and if installed, .NET Framework. Two versions of the registry editor exist in Windows 2000. The classic MDI-style editor capable of manipulating Windows NT permissions exists as regedt32.exe and the Windows 98 registry editor exists as regedit.exe. This is a straight port and is incapable of editing a remote registry or changing permissions. This was later updated in Windows XP. A new recovery console was introduced which can be launched from the CD-ROM (or optionally installed to disk and made available through NTLDR by running WinNT32.exe /cmdcons in Windows). This is a text-mode Windows NT (and not MS-DOS as it may look) environment. Most of what is built into cmd.exe, along with a set of NT native mode utilities may be launched from the recovery console.
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Features on the fun consumer side (or further brought over from 98) is support for DirectX 7.0, which is able to be upgraded up to DirectX 9.0c (Shader 3.0) with support remaining in DirectX up to the June 2010 SDK. Windows 2000 included no new stock games, including only FreeCell, Minesweeper, Pinball and Solitaire. Windows 2000 included the Accessibility tools (which NT 4.0 did not) and also included some new tools. Ported over was StickyKeys, FilterKeys, ToggleKeys, SoundSentry, MouseKeys, high contrast themes, and Magnifier. Windows 2000 introduced the Narrator, which reads aloud GUI objects with the Speech API, and an on screen keyboard which works with mouse or joystick. Windows 2000 introduced a multilingual user interface and can support Arabic, Armenian, Baltic, Central European, Cyrillic, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Indic, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkic, Vietnamese and Western European languages. Numerous locale settings are supported.
Installation instructions
All images are bootable and require the use of a virtualization platform (VMWare, VirtualBox, Virtual PC) or a real system with the ability to boot from a CD-ROM.
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Build number notes: 5.00.2195 or 5.00.2195.1=no SP, 5.00.2195.1620=SP1, 5.00.2195.2951=SP2, 5.00.2195.5438=SP3, 5.00.2195.6717=SP4. For more naming info see: Windows 2000 volume naming
Important: Due to enhancements in the IDE driver, you usually will want to install from SP4 media.