[Lightspeed]

Win2000 is very stable, but rather slow. Its a bit faster than XP, probably still heaps faster than ME.

ME definately was the Worst-Windows-Ever (TM).

[Terorist]

'The Windows That Should Not Be'.

[ChronoReverse]

Naw, that belongs to Windows 1.0

WindowsME is the second worst Windows XD

[übermetroid]

Thats really strange...  Before I um.. found my Xp disk I used ME on everything and it was fine.  Hardly any crashes.

[karajorma]

Windows 2 was pretty bad too though.

[DragonClaw]

Heh, Windows ME is underrated. Almost everyone who bashes it, is just trying to feel accepted by the crowd, since they haven't even used it before. It's all negative hype. I personally am having no trouble since I have gotten it, which was years ago... and I'm still using it. The only thing I don't like about it right now is that it won't run graphical programs designed to run on 2000/XP systems, like Maya, Softimage XSI, and Photoshop CS. If the newest Lightwave only runs on XP/2000 I'll be royally pissed...

[WMCoolmon]

Originally posted by DragonClaw
Heh, Windows ME is underrated. Almost everyone who bashes it, is just trying to feel accepted by the crowd, since they haven't even used it before.

Well, then take it from me, who has had experience from Windows ME: It's as bad as they say. Every time I use my parents' computer, which has ME installed, I have to be careful. I open Word and a folder at the same time, BSOD. Oops.

I am a big advocate of installing 2K (Which my computer has).

[ChronoReverse]

Heh, Windows ME is underrated. Almost everyone who bashes it, is just trying to feel accepted by the crowd, since they haven't even used it before. It's all negative hype.

I think that you don't understand my viewpoint here.  My Win98se system was up continuously for 6 months.  That's right, 6 months.  This was under normal usage (i.e. mirc, video playback, some games, word processing and web browsing).

So compared to that I really don't see what's up with ME.

To be fair, I really didn't go about trying to get ME to stay up as much as I did so with Win98se.

But what really irks me about WinME is that there was little reason for its existance.


Frankly, I never liked Win95 either, but since I've never actually owned a computer with that installed, I can't really form a real opinion.

[StratComm]

I would agree with you DC, as I only upgraded from it because of some virus issues and the need for a more stable operating system, but ME was an absolute abomination.  It added a few pretty bells and whistles (most notably the stupid intro movie that tried to play 500 times when I first got the thing) that you could also add by installing the necessary updates/plugins for 98se, and it detracted from performance so badly I can't even begin to describe it.  What did it add?  Some home networking support, "integrated" multimedia support (which I never got, because it seemed pretty integrated with 98se), System Restore (the most useful virus backup program ever), and something else really trivial.  Right before my update, my dad's PC (a 700MHz PIII with 128Mb RAM running 98se) was outperforming my P4 1.4GHz with 512Mb RAM.  It had some useful home networking features, and that was about the extent of it as far as I could tell.  Add that to the fact that it predated XP by like 9 months, and there really was no reason to release it in the first place.  Microsoft would have been giving people a better product if they had just released 2k standard on all platforms.

[DragonClaw]

Well you see, I didn't say "everyone", I said "almost everyone". Also, most of the time its just user error, as much as I will hate the reaction to what I just said.

Again, I have never had a problem with ME, never had video playback problems, never had to look at that dumb windows video(except the 1st time I started up, after that, nothing). I don't think I've done a hard reboot in 6 months(except from SCP freezing up my computer, as people with any other operating system has had happened to them). So really, its really user error, or you aren't being careful with the programs you're downloading.

I seem to be having the opposite effect with ME as StratComm. My 1600+ XP GeForce4Ti4200 outperforms my dad's Windows XP , Athlon XP 2000+ GeForce4Ti4600 by quite a bit. We have the same amount of DDR Ram too. So I don't know what you guys did with your ME systems, but I know I haven't had any problems. And there's no way in hell I'm spending hundreds of dollars on a dumb operating system built by microsoft.

[phreak]

Windows 3.1 was the best.  Minesweeper = Best game ever

[chris_2xtreme]

Btw, chris_2xtreme, is that Newcastle in Australia, or elsewhere.

well to answer your question seketh its newcastle in England