re: Worst ever OS
ME was a really forked up version of 98SE, with that stupid 'file manager' added. The damned thing would stash files in the wierdest places.
I've actually had fairly good luck with 98SE, I wouldn't move to ME when it came out. If you had 96SE with all the updates it was ME. Without some of the extra 'helpful' code Microsuks added. Adding to the bloat, complexity and lowered the stability. Which the O/S didn't need.
I am narrowing my problem down to either my flatbed scanner, Visioneer 2800, or one of the games my grandaughter just has to have loaded on my system.