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Win98SE and WinMe are great!

J

jeremy806

Senior member
Hi everyone,

I am see a lot of people ripping on Win98SE and WinME as being unstable and having issues.

However, I run Win98SE on my desktop, WinME on my laptop, both computers never crash. I don't do much on the laptop, word processing and Internet stuff. On the desktop, I do the same and do light gaming and video editing.

Anyway, I bought Win2k OEM, but later switched to 98SE (on the desktop) because I got tired of software not working correctly (Liveware, Final Fantasy, NHL2001, etc.).

Anyway, that's my rant, I am starting to think that OC is overrated and causes most of the stablility problems that people have. By the way, I still OC though.

jeremy806
 
Hey J.

Have you tried to network ME with W2K yet? I am having problems getting ME set up to see the server. I've set up a W2K network so I kinda know what I'm doing, but I feel I am overlooking something in ME or I'm missing a set up somewhere.

I agree that ME is more stable than Win 95 or 98. Still has it's moments but not as many.
 

I fully agree with the stability of Win98 and Win ME. Both have been running great on my systems. I cannot understand why so many on Anandtech seem to be bad mouthing ME especially when it is so stable and reliable on my home built systems.

So which OSs have been having the most problems and most asking for help in fixing it? Why it is Linux and Win2K.

90% of the problem notes are for Linux and Win2K. Not for Win ME.

So some of you should lighten up now and then and speak with more actual experience than with rhetoric.

JL 😀

 
johnlog: Believe me, I speak from quite a bit of experience. I (during school months anyway) work for my college's IT department fixing/troubleshooting the professor's computers. The OS distribution is about 30% 9x and about 70% 2k (transitioning to complete 2k eventually), but the problems that come in are about 80% 9x and 20% 2k. It's just more troublesome. 9x crashes too much (if it doens't crash for you then you aren't stressing your machine as much as I am), is "fragile" (ie, install one piece of software and it can and often does screw up the whole installation requiring hours of work to fix it), and degrades quicker than the frickin NASDAQ stock prices right now (with 9x I had to reinstall every 5-6 months to keep it snappy, with 2k I reinstall if I switch motherboards or get a new hd.). 2k is the most robust Windows I've seen. It's actually a great product (that coming from a Linux advocate) even if I don't agree w/ Ms's business practices.
 
Well I don't necessarily see Win9x as bad OS's because they hardly crash on me, but Win2k is better because it has never crashed on me. I use one computer as an internet connection server for the other comps in my house and I feel better knowing that it's running on Win2k than Win9x.
 
Windows 98 is fine but it is definately not as stable as w2k. ME is fine for a while but the more you use it and put in it, the more prone it is to crashing. I had regular crashes, at least 5 or more a week.

ME hates things like Photoshop, Premiere or other intensive video/image editing packages
 


<< I don't do much on the laptop, word processing and Internet stuff >>


That's why you are not having any problems with WinME. Any time you try to do more, prepare for it to go down.
 
I must admit I really like Win ME, but I just cant stand Win 98/SE. I reverted to it the other day, trying to get more 3dmark's and well totally messed up my system and had to format. 🙁 I have dual boot with ME and Win 2k pro now, so im happy again 🙂
 
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