Import and edit your home movies
Put yourself in the director's chair. Import and edit video from your analog or digital camcorder. Splice scenes easily or add narration, musical scores and graphics. When you're done, Windows Movie Maker helps you share your creation with friends and family via e-mail or on a Web site.

Move your photo collection from shoebox to hard drive
Working with photos in Windows Me is a snap (if you can pardon the expression). Connect your digital camera to your computer and Windows Me displays a helpful Wizard that simplifies the importing and storing of your digital images. With the new "My Pictures" folder, you can browse thumbnails of your photos, enlarge them to show more detail, or even arrange the images in a slideshow.

Archive and index your favorite music
Windows Me offers the first fully integrated digital media experience, giving you the power to create and index a library CD-quality audio files, which you can store on your computer's hard drive. Windows Media™ also lets you watch and listen to streaming multimedia content, which included Internet radio stations. You can customize your listening experience by choosing visualizations that move in rhythm with the music, or by changing the player's appearance by assigning it a new "skin."

Protect your critical files
Windows Me won’t allow the inadvertent deletion or alteration of critical system files by rogue applications, a careless computer user, or a malicious virus.

Revert your computer back to normal
System Restore can roll your system back to the state it was in just prior to a crash or other catastrophe.

Find the answers you need
The improved Help and Support area integrates help for your operating system, computer, and applications into one location. Get the help you need faster, with better, easier-to-read troubleshooter menus.

Use your computer to program your VCR and thermostat
Windows Me provides new support for forthcoming Universal Plug and Play devices. In the future, you'll be able to drag and drop a TV listing from an Internet site into your VCR or DVD, or control home temperature settings from your computer.

Link your household’s computers
Hooking the entire household up with Windows Me is a breeze, because the operating system automatically detects and shares available resources, such as printers and folders, on your home network.

Contact friends and co-workers more efficiently than ever
Outlook Express, MSN Messenger Service and NetMeeting work together to make communicating easier and more efficient. Log on to the Web from virtually anywhere in the world and check e-mail, chat with friends, or conduct a live meeting with colleagues.

Take gaming to the next level
Increased network support lets you go toe-to-toe with a sibling or spouse over a home network, or challenge an anonymous competitor over the Internet.