Windows ME was strange. In some computers it was a modernized Win98, not really better or worse. On others, it caused all kinds of crashes, including total ir

Windows ME was strange. In some computers it was a modernized Win98, not really better or worse. On others, it caused all kinds of crashes, including total irrecoverable data loss on hard disks. One of the weirdest examples I know of was a particular series of desktops, sold in the supermarket with ME. I knew 2 people buying identical machines in the same week from the same supermarket. One of them worked flawlessly. The other one was such a miserable crash prone machine. We forced Win98 on the crasher and all was well again.