C3PX said:
First off -1, stop being such a ******wit. Thanks. Yes, I can type that with a straight face. ME worked great for me, after years of trouble with 98, ME felt like a great breath of fresh air. It basically felt like a version of 98 that didn't constantly plummet me into the blue screen of death. Also, it was the first one to have the compatibility mode feature, which I really liked, always worked well for me, and I use a lot of old programs.
that's odd, most of rest of the world (including microsoft) admitted that ME was a huge failure,
and there were several major issues with it:
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Windows Me was criticized by users for its instability and unreliability, due to frequent freezes and crashes. A PC World article dubbed Windows Me the "Mistake Edition" and listed it as the fourth "Worst Tech Product of All Time". "Shortly after Me appeared in late 2000," the article states, "users reported problems installing it, getting it to run, getting it to work with other hardware or software, and getting it to stop running." Even Microsoft acknowledged its unpopularity.
The System Restore feature sometimes ended up restoring a virus which the user had previously removed, since its method of keeping track of changes is fairly simplistic. By disabling System Restore, the virus could be removed, but the user lost all saved restore points.
System Restore also suffered from a bug in the date-stamping functionality that may cause System Restore to date-stamp snapshots that are taken after 8 September 2001 incorrectly. This can prevent System Restore from locating these snapshots and can cause the system restore process to fail. Microsoft has released an update to fix this problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_ME
anyways, if you were using windows 98 service pack 2, it was rock solid,
and i still use it today (along with windows 95)...
i'm not sure what hardware/software issues you were having with 98,
but most people didn't have them...and waited for NT 4.0/2000 or XP before
upgrading again..
later
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