Andrew Lyle Global Moderator Posted January 22, 2008 Global Moderator Share Posted January 22, 2008 umm, the fact it would give BSOD's like it was halloween? :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrcookjr Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 It was just plain silly. I stuck with 98SE. That's a hell of an OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tha Bloo Monkee Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 I remember how it wouldn't make floppy boot disks. That was the ONLY thing I had problems with. I always thought Windows ME was better than Windows 98 and crashed less often, I'm a minority. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Vivicidal- Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 BSoD is annoying but the fact that it was sluggish really annoyed me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacer Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 ^and unfortunately, system restore rarely worked effectively Why are you talking in past tense? System Restore STILL doesn't work effectively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruAmbitionz Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Windows ME was probably the worst version of Windows next to Vista. I would like to know, what was your biggest problem with it?I personally was okay with Windows ME, the only kind of machines that would accept it were those weird machines. I still preferred 2000. Windows ME had one serious bug in Internet Explorer where it would ask you if you wanted to debug on every other website. That's an ignorant statement I would say about Vista. I skipped straight to the bottom on this one so I didn't read other peoples comments but I'm sure they agree. Windows Me was not stable at all. Bsod, Freeze, Bsod, Freeze, Bsod, Freeze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PermaSt0ne Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 BSOD's constantly. there was no pattern to them and they all gave different error codes. i never found the cause; even after multiple re-installations :wacko: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goji Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Had ME for less than a month... went to copy a CD and the system died. No BSOD, no warnings noting. Turns out ME fried some components and other things. Sad part, it was a brand new PC too. Went back to 98 and loved it till I went to XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tha Bloo Monkee Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Like I said, I just don't get the random crashes. :s I would've chosen ME over 98 anyday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimy Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Had ME for less than a month... went to copy a CD and the system died. No BSOD, no warnings noting. Turns out ME fried some components and other things. Sad part, it was a brand new PC too. Went back to 98 and loved it till I went to XP. :| Are you trying to say that the OS was responsible for hardware failure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFuji Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Why are you talking in past tense? System Restore STILL doesn't work effectively. It's getting better though... but I still had a BSOD last Summer when I used it in Vista. Somehow I think it's just bad luck in my ase because none of my friends *ever* had a problem with system restore (or they are just being lucky ;) ). Back to topic: I have to admit that I never used ME, mostly because a former MS employee who repaired my computer at that time told me to do so. So I waited and went straight from 98SE to XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Vivicidal- Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 :| Are you trying to say that the OS was responsible for hardware failure? Sounds like he is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SVG Veteran Posted February 11, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 11, 2008 I tried ME for a couple of weeks, ran into a few BSODs n unresponsive programs till i got Windows 2000 and that one was a totally awesome OS.. amazing stability Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goji Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 :| Are you trying to say that the OS was responsible for hardware failure? On a brand new machine, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.tony Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 I ran Windows ME fine for many years... But my hardware was extremely out of date so I got a Dell with XP in 2004. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiB3R Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Nothing, I had that little bitch under control. (though it did take years) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt-DavidW Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Windows ME was a cut and shut, and felt like it too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowmatt Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 My major problem was that it would take a drive down at least once every 2 months. Killing the registry requiring a reinstall. It cost me time and money. Thanks Micro$oft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Lyon Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 We went from 98 to ME, it was just slow, crashy, and didnt seem to have anything better than 98, i think we used it for about a week... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XX55XX Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 It was too unstable. If I remembered correctly, whenever it crashed on me, my wallpaper would be disabled when I rebooted the computer. I was simply happy when I was able to upgrade to XP the following year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phot0nic Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 Wow, you all really had bad experiences with it. I used ME for years and didn't have this much trouble. I mean, it was no where near as stable as XP or Vista, but it wasn't much less stable than 98 SE (what I was upgrading from) for me. In fact, it was slightly faster, and included some minor new features in the UI here and there. System Restore blew so I turned it off, but oh well. It wasn't worth the money to upgrade if a person already had 98 SE, but it wasn't THAT bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chconline Veteran Posted February 19, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 19, 2008 None. Was better than Windows 98SE, and not that Windows 98SE was anything too pretty either. Vista FTW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nX07 Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 Yea I never had a problem with ME.. lol. I used it for about 2 years (it came on my HP machine)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Kompressor Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 Windows Me had new features that were welcoming like system restore but. but horrid Memory leaks, Random Crashes, DLL issues, Buggy... oh and did i say Poor Memory management already :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Montage Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 I found it pointless. IMHO it was pure marketing. 98se was good enough for consumers - ME offered nothing MAJOR new. But there was no new version, so ME seemed to be created. Sure it had a FEW upgrades under the hood, and a nice cosmetic facelift - but it didn't offer anything substantial to justify itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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