WinME with USB MN510 constantly hangs explorer

I have a WinXP Pro machine with DSL setup with the MN500
bASE sTATION (PLUGGED DIRECTLY into the PC).

I have a separate WinME machine with 756MB ram, with the
MN510 USB adapter.

On the WinME machine, I practically have to hit Ctl-Alt-
Del and kill "explorer.exe" every time I want to do
something because it continually hangs.

I can't open My COmputer without getting into task manager
and end-tasking, can't get into Control Panel, can'tget
into Printers... you get the idea.

I'm pretty disgusted with this at this point.
Anyone have any ideas that might help?

I built this machine fresh before installing the USB
adapter (reformatted hard drive, fresh install of WinME,
etc.)

(please don't ask the obvious question of why I am using
WinME at all. I need to have various OS'es setup for
testing purposes. THanks.)

Regards,
- M


Max

You might try restricting Windows ME to only 512 MB of RAM. If you use
more then that in Windows ME it usually becomes unstable. You can do
this by running "msconfig" (without the quotation marks) | Clicking on
the advanced button | put a check in "Limit memory" | and set it to 512
MB | click OK twice | and reboot. Windows ME should now be more stable.

Max wrote:
> I have a WinXP Pro machine with DSL setup with the MN500
> bASE sTATION (PLUGGED DIRECTLY into the PC).
>
> I have a separate WinME machine with 756MB ram, with the
> MN510 USB adapter.
>
> On the WinME machine, I practically have to hit Ctl-Alt-
> Del and kill "explorer.exe" every time I want to do
> something because it continually hangs.
>
> I can't open My COmputer without getting into task manager
> and end-tasking, can't get into Control Panel, can'tget
> into Printers... you get the idea.
>
> I'm pretty disgusted with this at this point.
> Anyone have any ideas that might help?
>
> I built this machine fresh before installing the USB
> adapter (reformatted hard drive, fresh install of WinME,
> etc.)
>
> (please don't ask the obvious question of why I am using
> WinME at all. I need to have various OS'es setup for
> testing purposes. THanks.)
>
> Regards,
> - M

No, it wasn't the memory.
I spent a couple hours on tech support phone call to no
avail.
I ended up uninstalling WinME, reformatting, and
installing Win98 as a test.
I was able to duplicate the problem, but I did discover
this:
it would work fine until I was told of new updates
avaialble. If I installed the new updates, I could no
longer access anything without having to kill explorer.exe
again.
Sop I uninstalled the adapter, and reinstalled and
UNCHECKED the auto search for updates and so far so good -
though it bugs me not being able to get the latest patches.

Also, I seem to have problems with file downlaods being
corrupt on the satellite mnachine.

Very tempted to return this stuff while I still can.
- Max

>-----Original Message-----
>You might try restricting Windows ME to only 512 MB of
RAM. If you use
>more then that in Windows ME it usually becomes
unstable. You can do
>this by running "msconfig" (without the quotation marks)
| Clicking on
>the advanced button | put a check in "Limit memory" | and
set it to 512
>MB | click OK twice | and reboot. Windows ME should now
be more stable.
>
>Max wrote:
>> I have a WinXP Pro machine with DSL setup with the
MN500
>> bASE sTATION (PLUGGED DIRECTLY into the PC).
>>
>> I have a separate WinME machine with 756MB ram, with
the
>> MN510 USB adapter.
>>
>> On the WinME machine, I practically have to hit Ctl-Alt-
>> Del and kill "explorer.exe" every time I want to do
>> something because it continually hangs.
>>
>> I can't open My COmputer without getting into task
manager
>> and end-tasking, can't get into Control Panel, can'tget
>> into Printers... you get the idea.
>>
>> I'm pretty disgusted with this at this point.
>> Anyone have any ideas that might help?
>>
>> I built this machine fresh before installing the USB
>> adapter (reformatted hard drive, fresh install of
WinME,
>> etc.)
>>
>> (please don't ask the obvious question of why I am
using
>> WinME at all. I need to have various OS'es setup for
>> testing purposes. THanks.)
>>
>> Regards,
>> - M
>
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