Windows Me

Windows Me
Year of release	2000
Included image types	Wallpapers One sample picture
Agencies used	PhotoDisc Corbis Butterfly Production
Preceded by	Windows 98 (1998)
Succeeded by	Windows XP (2001)

Windows Me, codenamed Millennium, is an operating system released by Microsoft in 2000.

Wallpapers

All of Windows 2000's wallpapers, which were mostly taken from Corbis and PhotoDisc, are also present in Me, along with additional ones taken by Microsoft employees. It has no default wallpaper, although it does have a branding wallpaper and an Active Desktop one. These wallpapers are stored inside webvw.dll on the disc, and are extracted into C:\Windows\Web during setup.

All of the patterns and wallpapers from 98 are also carried over (but are unpacked from .cab files rather than webvw.dll), which were in turn mostly carried over from 95, so these are not listed here. The Plus! themes and their wallpapers also appear in Me, though the More Windows wallpaper has been replaced with the branding wallpaper.

	Name	Licensed from	Originates from	Photographer/artist	Notes
	Boiling Point	PhotoDisc	PhotoDisc	unknown	Reused from 2000 Supposed to be tiled
	Chateau	Corbis	Corbis	Annie Griffiths Belt	Reused from 2000
	Cliff in Clouds	N/A	Microsoft	Jay Torborg
	Diagonal Sand	Butterfly Production	Microsoft Butterfly Production	Matthew A. Felton
	Fall Memories	unknown	unknown	unknown	Reused from 2000 Supposed to be tiled
	Fly Away	unknown	unknown	unknown	Reused from 2000 Supposed to be tiled
	Gold Petals	Corbis	Corbis	George D. Lepp	Reused from 2000
	Iceberg	Butterfly Production	Microsoft Butterfly Production	Matthew A. Felton
	Ocean Wave	unknown	unknown	unknown	Reused from 2000
	Paradise	PhotoDisc	PhotoDisc	Ingo Jezierski	Reused from 2000
	Purple Sponge	unknown	unknown	unknown	Reused from 2000 Supposed to be tiled
	Shed in Field	N/A	Microsoft	Jay Torborg
	Smokey Light	N/A	Microsoft	Jay Torborg
	Snow Trees	PhotoDisc	PhotoDisc	Hans Wiesenhofer	Reused from 2000
	Solar Eclipse	Corbis	Corbis	Roger Ressmeyer	Reused from 2000
	Vinca	N/A	Microsoft	Thomas Fenwick
	Water Color	unknown	unknown	unknown	Reused from 2000 Supposed to be tiled
	Windows Me	N/A	Microsoft	unknown
	Yosemite	Butterfly Production	Microsoft Butterfly Production	Matthew A. Felton

Sample picture

Windows Me only comes with the same sample picture that appears in 2000, which depicts an athlete preparing to undertake a sprint. It appears to have originated from Adobe Photoshop 7.0's CD, which ships with a selection of clipart images. Some elements of the image, such as hay on the ground, were edited out by Microsoft.

Setup backgrounds

The first stage of Me's setup uses the same grid of black and blue pixels as with 98, then the stage after that features two new backgrounds: one in high color and one in low color. Both versions feature thick lines in the bottom and top-right corner, although the low color version does not fade them out with gradients and its line colors are different. The low color version includes the Windows Me logo in the top left corner, while the high color version does not, instead opting to include the logo in three files intended for 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768 displays respectively These backgrounds were added in build 2465, the first build using the Windows Me title.

setup.bmp also returns from 98, but again is not actually used in its original context.
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