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ZrByte · 11-05-2004, 02:50

Just to clarify slightly. With Win ME if you are lucky enough to get a stable install it will be solid as a rock. The problem lies there, if you are unlucky installing the OS (About 80% of the time in my experience) the thing will be about as stable as a drunk in an earthquake.
Since I had to keep my copy of WinME I did try it again later down the line, I ran it stable for 7 months (a personal record for me, even with WinXP I normally have to reformat every 3-5 months), then I needed to reformat through no fault of the OS and I never managed to get it to run stable again.

I never got what people meant about Win98 being unstable though? Sure it could be if it was left running for long periods without rebooting but that was a common problem with OS's at the time. Or are these people reffering to Win98 standard, and not Win98SE?? I only briefly used standard 98 before moving onto SE and I rareley ran into a crash wich wasnt down to shoddy game coding or cheap hardware.

EDIT: I only even upgraded to XP eventually because I cant use 2k on my laptop and for some reason I couldnt get XP to play nice with 2k on my main machine(e.g. first time accessing my network in a new browser could take upto 2mins)

11-05-2004, 02:50	#93
ZrByte Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Wirral / Ex CWC Area Age: 43 Posts: 3,251	Re: XP Service Pack 2 - Nice move M$! Just to clarify slightly. With Win ME if you are lucky enough to get a stable install it will be solid as a rock. The problem lies there, if you are unlucky installing the OS (About 80% of the time in my experience) the thing will be about as stable as a drunk in an earthquake. Since I had to keep my copy of WinME I did try it again later down the line, I ran it stable for 7 months (a personal record for me, even with WinXP I normally have to reformat every 3-5 months), then I needed to reformat through no fault of the OS and I never managed to get it to run stable again. I never got what people meant about Win98 being unstable though? Sure it could be if it was left running for long periods without rebooting but that was a common problem with OS's at the time. Or are these people reffering to Win98 standard, and not Win98SE?? I only briefly used standard 98 before moving onto SE and I rareley ran into a crash wich wasnt down to shoddy game coding or cheap hardware. EDIT: I only even upgraded to XP eventually because I cant use 2k on my laptop and for some reason I couldnt get XP to play nice with 2k on my main machine(e.g. first time accessing my network in a new browser could take upto 2mins)