Memory Leak Found In Windows Me

[me101 Veteran]

While reading WinOSCentral, I came across this story.

The Windows ME operating system from Microsoft Corp. contains a memory leak that has apparently not been fixed, according to a lengthy chain of emails provided by an ExtremeTech reader.

ET reader Matt Vlasaty, a Chicago-based electrical engineer, discovered that when after opening large files of 200-Mbytes or so --such as Outlook email attachments or Usenet downloads?Windows Millennium Edition did not then increase the amount of free memory after the files were closed.

According to the documentation provided as part of Vlasaty's email, Microsoft officials have confirmed the problem and are researching a solution. After initially responding to ET inquiries concerning the problem last week, however, Microsoft officials did not provide an acknowledgement of the problem or an explanation by press time. "We're still working on it," a spokesman said Thursday night, four business days after the original inquiry.

Read more @ Extreme Tech

[IK47]

No wonder.

[MetaLRasaM]

wow..took em wat? 5 years? lol...craziest windows of all time..me was JUNK!

[DoNuTs]

Keyword in this newspost is WIndows ME

[..::. P X .::..]

Didn't they discontinue supprt for older OSes?

[beardly]

The reason it took so long is that no one was using it.

[loc[a]lhost]

lol, just one memory leak? :p

[.Kompressor]

that was my initial guess from day one.

I had Me for 1 month with a new pc. didn't take long to realize what was going on. It would just eat up any amount of RAM you would throw at it and never release it.

If I see a client using it and asking for support my first response is get rid of it asap and you'll have less problems.

[ANova]

ME has alot more problems then a memory leak.

[[Fosters]]

People who use Windows ME are more pathetic than people who won't upgrade to XP SP2.

Hmm. Wait a minute that includes me!

I still use it for old games.

[Slimy]

  me101 said:

While reading WinOSCentral, I came across this story.

The Windows ME operating system from Microsoft Corp. contains a memory leak that has apparently not been fixed, according to a lengthy chain of emails provided by an ExtremeTech reader.

ET reader Matt Vlasaty, a Chicago-based electrical engineer, discovered that when after opening large files of 200-Mbytes or so --such as Outlook email attachments or Usenet downloads?Windows Millennium Edition did not then increase the amount of free memory after the files were closed.

According to the documentation provided as part of Vlasaty's email, Microsoft officials have confirmed the problem and are researching a solution. After initially responding to ET inquiries concerning the problem last week, however, Microsoft officials did not provide an acknowledgement of the problem or an explanation by press time. \"We're still working on it,\" a spokesman said Thursday night, four business days after the original inquiry.

Read more @ Extreme Tech

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no wonder, this os is ****

98 was loads better

[vincent]

  ANova said:

ME has alot more problems then a memory leak.

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ME is a problem period

[Atmos42]

Worst.OS.Ever!

Best thing about it at the time was the restore feature, but even that had problems. No one I talked too at the time had a clue as to why ME even existed considerring XP xame out soon after.

[YBG]

I used to use ME back in the day when I was 12 or so..it was ok for what I was doing. That was back in the day when I didn't know so much about computers..

[neatofx]

M$ Wanted more money. ;)

[+s55 Subscriber¹]

how do u think i felt - i was stupid enuf to go buy an upgrade version thinking it wud be better thn win 98se which kept going up to H and back.... boy was i wong - if only i wansnt like 10 and stupid - waste of money - used for 8 days then moved to 2000 which my father bought. if only i'd managed to return it 1 day before and i cuda got my money back

I'll Sell anyone that want ME UPGRADE and MANUAL for FREE? i may even try pay u to take it :p

[Shadrack]

ME was a pile of crap. And the fact that MS released it so close to Windows XP being release was just really bad all around. It was like a sucker punch or something. All they did was took Windows 98 second edition, figured out how to make it crappier then ever and see what yuppies took the bait. A few of our new computers at the time came preloaded with it, almost instant insentive to upgrade to Windows XP. However we were all real cautious around Microsoft Products right after Windows ME.

[Stingray]

These news are as bit as pathetic as Windows ME was.

[-=NoX=-]

  loc[a]lhost said:

lol, just one memory leak? :p

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haha :pinch: i run me but i got sooo much ram (N)

[MrRogers]

People still use Windows Me?

[Jerichohol]

They just found it? Wow took them long enough. I actually got a PC with WinME, that was a bad decision

[theBangtheWord]

Windows ME was just an embarassment to Microsoft.....they don't even have any mention of it on the website! The reason this Memory leak took so long to discover was, as was previously said nobody uses it any more!

[S.MULLA]

whole of windows ME OS is a memory leak.. :D :p

[Code.Red]

^

^ Really? Microsoft doesn't mention it on the website? :blink:

I always thought ME was bad news... and it was!

[Scorbing]

Wow. They discovered America. :woot: