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One had to reinstall Win95/98 every year or two. It got really slow, the Windows registry implementation was really sub par and caused a major slow down. (if yo
by frik 10y ago
One had to reinstall Win95/98 every year or two. It got really slow, the Windows registry implementation was really sub par and caused a major slow down. (if you installed new programs, something that was a major problem up to WinXP)
I kept Win95 with Plus and IE4 with Windows Shell update. Then Win95 looked like Win98 anyway and (from my experience) more stable and faster. Win98SE was good though. WinME on the other side was pretty unstable, and got a bad reputation similar to Vista, 8 and 10.
- krylon 10y ago> One had to reinstall Win95/98 every year or two. Depends on how many applications one installed and uninstalled - I used to reinstall Windows at least twice a year. I still faintly remember the joy I felt when the newly installed Windows was so snappy. :-) By the time ME was released, I had started to explore this other system called Linux, and I was hooked rather quickly. I did keep ME installed for watching DVDs, though, because back then my computer was too slow to decode DVDs in software, and the accelerator card only worked on Windows. So I can testify, if all you do to ME is install PowerDVD and the driver for that decoder card, and then watch DVDs with it, it is both stable and performant. I was always slightly baffled when others bashed ME. Was it really that bad? I wouldn't know, all I can say is it worked alright for DVD playback. ;-)