ME had a lot of strange problems along with gettickcount there were a lot of driver issues as it was an unfinished version of an os and was the pre fund raiser for XP , i remember ME well actually because it had appalling problems with hardware and drivers , remember helping a friend try and fix his sound card problems , we spent almost a full 24 hours trying to get a sound card working , we eventually gave up and i gave him a old sound card which luckily worked with ME , i enjoyed the dinner his wife cooked though.