Why is Windows ME unstable?

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windows95isg8

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windows me unstable because, they did a crappy job!!!

God that was the worst experience I had, constant crashing, always some stupid errors popups out of no where, you have restart to get rid of it after restart you get BSOD  :cry:

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lol poor you. Thats bad though. Dont know why some had problems, and others. No problems at all.

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Gumboot

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Think about it from Microsoft's point of view. They knew that Me was the last in the line. The only parts of Me that would survive were the features that could be ported to the NT line (i.e. system restore, windows media player). Bug fixes to core components (e.g. kernel fixes) were largely gonna be thrown away after Me was released. Where would you spend your time?

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Think about it from Microsoft's point of view.  They knew that Me was the last in the line.  The only parts of Me that would survive were the features that could be ported to the NT line (i.e. system restore, windows media player).  Bug fixes to core components (e.g. kernel fixes) were largely gonna be thrown away after Me was released.  Where would you spend your time?

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Mental Health Clinic? lol

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Leddy

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Actually, NO version of windows was unstable out of the box (for me, anyway).

It depends on what you do with it, what you install on it, how you mess around, etc.

For me, 9x installs usually screw up in half a year.

NT based installs don't screw up on me unless something stupid happens (like the power cutting out during a partitionmagic session)

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Julius Caro

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Thankfully I only used ME for months, if not shorter due to Windows 2000 being in testing and at the time I was one the lucky ones that had 100% complete hardware support for the NT5.0/2000 betas.

However like many have said, Microsoft basically tried to do something to the 9x core that just couldn't be done anymore, too much old legacy code holding it down really. Thankfully there was another team already working on getting the consumers over to the NT core.

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Windows 2000 professional (and I guess the whole family) was out months before windows me even came out. I remember I had bought it and ME came some months after. How was win2k in testing when ME was out?

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mr_demilord

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System restore on a DOS kernel, and the bad security of the poor kernel/filesystem. < that makes it unstable and insecure

turn off system restore and don't hook the pc to the internet. and don't install Norton garbage on it. makes it an ok OS

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nickg78

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I tried installing it once (it was a clean install and not an upgrade), and oh no... Five minutes after starting the install process, the first BSOD appeared. The whole install process was an adventure. After about 20 BSODs and rebooting the system for another 20 times, I finished installing it.

Finally, ME worked for 10 days, with lots of problems and then completely crashed. I didn't use ME again and I won't ever. I prefer better DOS 6.1 than Windows ME.

The reason for all these problems (I think) is that Microsoft mixed Windows NT shell with Windows 98 Kernel, creating this awful mixture. I doubt if they had tested this operating system, before making it publicly available. :wacko:

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ozgeek

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I have never had any problems with Windows ME. It's basically a revised version of Windows 98 and I installed it after it came out on my system. I ran it for years before I changed over to XP. (the first time I ran XP, I only had 64 MB RAM!). It was a wonderful experienced and it got me ready for XP. The only problems I had when runnig Me was common hardware driver failures (which was fixed after driver updates). But now I am on XP Pro.

Wow! Time has changed so far and we are using better software and hardware than what we used with Windows 98.

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