I can't see where 261595 talks about uninstalling Win Me, perhaps you quoted
the wrong KB article.  Nevertheless you cannot uninstall Win Me back to your
previous Win Me although it might be possible if you chose to reinstall Win Me
to another directory than Windows but even then I suspect you would be left in
even more of a mess than you are at present.

What changes had you made to your system that led to the initial problem of a
slow startup.  Something must have changed otherwise there would have been no
"Please wait while setup updates your configuration files." message.  This
might give a clue as to the cause of your problems.

Windows 9x (95, 98, and Me) is not designed to support that much memory-at
least not in its default configuration. At start-up, it reserves space for a
memory cache called Vcache, whose size is proportional to the amount of
memory on the system. This space is drawn from a memory area called the
system arena, which is used by Windows internally for other purposes. When
the amount of memory is much larger than 512MB, the Vcache can consume all
or most of the system arena, causing Windows to report insufficient memory.

The solution is to put a lid on the amount of memory allocated to the
Vcache. Open the file C:\Windows\System.ini in Notepad and find the section
header [vcache]. Look within this section for a line beginning
MaxFileCache=. If you don't see this line before the next section header
(the next line of text in square brackets), insert a MaxFileCache= line just
after the [vcache] header. You need to set it to 512MB, but the values are
expressed in kilobytes, so the correct number is 512 multiplied by 1,024, or
524,288. Edit the line so it reads MaxFilecache=524288, save the System.ini
file, and restart your system.

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