Windows ME

DavidG · #1 September 25th, 2003, 10:38 PM

ME is an unbelievable piece of crap. I was getting 4 or 5 crashes a day when I had this at work. Usually with MS's own software Outlook express. I can't count the hours I wasted before we finally concluded it was ME and not the new computer. I have XP at work now and it works great (although I suspect for my needs 98 would have been a better choice).

I still have ME at home and although it is not as bad as the work incident it does still crash quite often.

A little research on the net told me that ME suffers from major memory leaks resulting in unpredicatable program behavior and crashes

mottlee · #2 September 26th, 2003, 12:53 AM

Thanks all, was a free bee to me BUT i do not need it to be a pain in the butt

Andr�s · #3 September 26th, 2003, 01:11 AM

I'm using winME in my computer and never had any problem. XP is not an option since my outdated computer doesnt meet its hardware requirements.

Ed Kolis · #4 September 26th, 2003, 02:11 AM

You also might want to upgrade to Windows RG

Thermodyne · #5 September 28th, 2003, 12:01 AM

ME is just very picky about drivers an apps. But it is a little better at some things than SE. Just be sure that you put the new installer package in.

SpaceBadger · #6 September 28th, 2003, 05:54 PM

Hmm, I have WinMe on two machines, Win98SE on two others. Really the major difference that I notice is that WinMe lets me see thumbnails of graphics in Windows Explorer, saving me from needing to open a graphics app to browse them. OTOH, I rarely use either of the Win98SE machines, so there may be more subtle differences that I am not seeing.

I'm not interested in moving "up" to XP at this time.

Can anyone point to a good comparison of WinMe and Win98SE, as to why 98SE might be better?

SpaceBadger

Kamog · #7 September 28th, 2003, 07:16 PM

I like Windows 98 better than ME or XP.

I'm using Windows XP at work, and so far XP itself has NEVER crashed, even though individual applications might sometimes crash or freeze up. So the operating system is very stable, but I find that some of my old programs either don't work at all under XP or run very slowly.

Windows 98 crashes a lot, but at least all my programs work. Windows ME also crashes a lot, but there's more weird problems than 98.