What was your biggest problem with Windows ME?

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Windows Me was way to unstable..... it was installed on my wife's Gateway laptop, and she constantly lost all schoolwork assignments to the point that she became a nervous wreck. She would be working on a term paper, save it, get up to do something and upon her return everything was gone....... even her saved files. I finally made sure that she saved her work in multiple places in order to safeguard it.

I couldn't wait to switch to XP in order to get rid of this horrible OS.

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Haha, somehow I'm getting curious...

Let's see if my if my friend still has his copy so I can try it out in a VM.

Everything caused a blue screen.

Sounds like it's one of these old trial and error Sierra adventures :lol:

"Too bad, you caused a BSOD again"

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I never had a problem with Windows ME, it was as stable as any of the other 9x's

The thing i found with Windows ME was that games ran slightly faster on it. Generally i thought it was pretty snappy when compared to Windows 98 and 98SE. It had the same sort of speed as Win95.

I thought it was the best of the Win9x line, with Win2k being the best of the NT Line.

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roadgeek9

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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. :)

It worked okay on my old PIII 750 MHz, 256 MB RAM Dell laptop that ran XP a little too slowly. Then I switched over to Windows 2000 because I figured that 2000 would just be faster and Windows 9x was still pretty sucky.

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had some nice videos on the installation cd tough .. altough nothing beats 95's weezer!

it was the endless crashing that did it for me... i quickly went back to 2k / 98 and later to some Whistler beta's.

ps .. don't get me started on how terribly wrong the Vista == ME comparison is .. Vista is nowhere near the "suckness" of ME.

Vista is a bit slower on un-optimized / older systems .. yeah .. but ME2 it ain't. it runs faster then XP on my machines...

But let's not do the whole vista/anti-vista thing again .. run whatever you want .. just not ME ;)

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roadgeek9

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I mean, if you have 3 GB RAM+, then you are in good shape to run Vista. But my computer only has 1.5 GB RAM, so I had difficulty running Windows Vista on my laptop, which lead me back to running Windows XP again.

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Urgh, if I remember correctly, my biggest issue was:-

Kernel32.DLL has caused an exception

or something very similar, but god help you if you clicked OK, almost guaranteed BSOD heading your way!

Oh, those were the 'fun' days. :p

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