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How bad Windows ME was...
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Kai Dowin
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Some say they filled a room with computers and locked a bunch of monkeys inside. The result was an incredible banana mess and Windows ME!
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Talking seriously. It was awfully unstable. My system at time would crash and have random DLL errors just by sitting doing nothing! I even hadn't internet at the time.
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Talking seriously. It was awfully unstable. My system at time would crash and have random DLL errors just by sitting doing nothing! I even hadn't internet at the time.
nukemaster
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It was like trying to poorly implement some of the features of Windows 2000 on a Windows 98 style core.
It has lots of stability issues(and was clearly rushed to market.) and was not liked by many users.
It has lots of stability issues(and was clearly rushed to market.) and was not liked by many users.
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Experiences vary greatly. I have a couple of machines (one a laptop) that have been running ME for close to 10 years now without so much as a hiccup. My experience is that you could count on problems if you upgraded a 9x machine to ME. However, a clean installation, on a freshly wiped drive, was quite stable.
nukemaster
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You had some replies, what more did you need to know.
It was a rather resource heavy version of Windows 98 with some new features that later made it into other OSes as well(system restore and a more user friendly version of Windows explore are quiet notable).
Simply put the core was less stable than the NT(as was older windows cores. At this point a single program hang could take down the system[freeze or crash] in some cases) core used in Windows 2000(XP and newer). This is not to say some users did not like ME. I had a friend who actually quite liked it at the time.
It was a rather resource heavy version of Windows 98 with some new features that later made it into other OSes as well(system restore and a more user friendly version of Windows explore are quiet notable).
Simply put the core was less stable than the NT(as was older windows cores. At this point a single program hang could take down the system[freeze or crash] in some cases) core used in Windows 2000(XP and newer). This is not to say some users did not like ME. I had a friend who actually quite liked it at the time.
nukemaster
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I personally skipped ME, but did quite a bit of repair work on systems so got to see it in all its glory 
Again I did have a friend who loved Windows ME.
And if you do any repair work on systems, you will see that users have a very large effect on systems too.
That said, people compared Vista to ME. I had no problems with Vista it self. Nvidia DID have some of the worst driver support for Vista at the start however(600 dollar video card and over 9 months of crashes that did not happen on a AMD card in the same time period. Most users do not know that at one time Nvidia worked on its newest cards for drivers before the slightly[i am talking just an 8800GTX, it was not even that old yet at the time] older ones).
It also did not help that computer makers started to ship systems with a single core cpu/integrated video(that did not even support aero) and 1 gigabyte of ram with Vista installed. That would be like shipping Windows 98 on a system with a 386/486 and 8 megabytes of memory. It was kind of expected that the newest OS should at least have modern hardware.
Again I did have a friend who loved Windows ME.And if you do any repair work on systems, you will see that users have a very large effect on systems too.
That said, people compared Vista to ME. I had no problems with Vista it self. Nvidia DID have some of the worst driver support for Vista at the start however(600 dollar video card and over 9 months of crashes that did not happen on a AMD card in the same time period. Most users do not know that at one time Nvidia worked on its newest cards for drivers before the slightly[i am talking just an 8800GTX, it was not even that old yet at the time] older ones).
It also did not help that computer makers started to ship systems with a single core cpu/integrated video(that did not even support aero) and 1 gigabyte of ram with Vista installed. That would be like shipping Windows 98 on a system with a 386/486 and 8 megabytes of memory. It was kind of expected that the newest OS should at least have modern hardware.
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Yeah. The system supports Aero graphics without hogging the CPU. Talk about a good mp3 player in RG. The sounds aren't even compatible with 3D surround! I have Realtek sound and it preforms AWESOME!!!! Built-in Intel graphics, 2GB RAM, Intel Pentium 4 CPU that doesn't like Windows 7 but likes XP. I am really planning on upgrading the CPU to a Core i7 to try to fix my crazy issue with 7 locking up on me.
nukemaster
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Windows locking up may be a sign of hardware issues or bios config issues.
But P4's came out long before Windows 7 as well.
But P4's came out long before Windows 7 as well.
nukemaster
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It would be recommended as with a new title to the thread you may get more people interested.
XP is not as hard on the system resources as Windows 7 is(windows 7 also makes use of more system memory to pre cache programs you use often, even slightly defective memory can cause many more crashes on Vista/7/8).
XP is not as hard on the system resources as Windows 7 is(windows 7 also makes use of more system memory to pre cache programs you use often, even slightly defective memory can cause many more crashes on Vista/7/8).
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