Absolutely stumpted - ready to ditch OS

[Bofinn]

Originally posted by rodtoo40
been trying to talk sister in law in to upgrading to xp but no go said she had it at work and hated it told her i could set it up just like windows me or 98se but unwilling to give so i guess she will have to live with the problems thanks guys for trying to help

My Dad is like that, hates to deal with changes. He is on XP and has changed everything possible to the older Start up Menu, control panel view, etc... I can see some of it, but I like some of xp's features as well.

[Jericho_abx]

I am surprised nobody mentioned the infamous Windows ME memory leak. It is even documented by MS. ME is the biggest piece of crap MS ever came up with. Not to offend anyone that has it.

The memory leak in ME is one of the more well known big MS bugs in the tech world from way back. The os will get slower and slower and slower and then lock up. Back when people actually used that os, they had to reload it completely every few months. Surprisingly MS never came up with a fix.

[Endaar]

I'm NOT trying to be funny, but that's different from 95/98 how?

Endaar

[JonP]

Originally posted by rodtoo40
been trying to talk sister in law in to upgrading to xp but no go said she had it at work and hated it told her i could set it up just like windows me or 98se but unwilling to give so i guess she will have to live with the problems thanks guys for trying to help

I have obviously been very resistant to change as well. I have personally only ever used 95, 98, 98SE and ME. I had only ever used NT based systems at work. Now that I have tried an NT based desktop at home, I have to kick myself repeatedly that I did not make the change three years ago when Win 2000 came out. I'm never going to use the Win9x stuff again except for games. Clearly in my particular case, upgrading to NT architecture is going to save me time, hassle and vastly improves my user experience. My "test" experience over the last day with XP has been an absolute pleasure. I can't wait to get my copy via courier tomorrow morning (ordered this morning).

Maybe you should show your sister in law this thread.

[JonP]

Originally posted by Jericho
I am surprised nobody mentioned the infamous Windows ME memory leak. It is even documented by MS

Jericho,

Do you have a link somewhere to MS documenting it? I vaguely seem to remember reading about it, but I also seem to remember they acknowledged this "leak" as occuring only under very specific conditions. That is, they did not consider it to be a flaw that would effect the general user - only specific users in specific scenarios. Maybe my memory is playing tricks, so it would be good to find out exactly what MS said.

[rodtoo40]

i`ve done all i can do showed her this thread and can only wait now i have xp pro running on all of mine good system i use to swear by 98se very fast for gaming but things change either you keep up or you are left behind way of life thanks for the help and this site is a great place going to stick around for a while

[noshellswill]

Come clean, Jericho:

You're trying to up M$$lime sales before you go "short". What's this balony about 're-install' every 3-months?' gawdsakes dust out the cobwebs!

Fact is, My older WinME systems have been up 2.5-Y & 1-Y without a serious hitch! The oldest (K6 / P5A-B ) would have 3.5 years, but I rheemed out the OEM Jetway mobo trying to replace a heatsink. And that system runs legacy ISA / SCSI hardware slick as N. Kidmans knickers ...