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Andrew

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26th May 08 at 13:07

Anyone had problems installing the latest version of MSN on Windows XP

Version 8.5 works fine..

N3CRO

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26th May 08 at 15:06

I've not got any probs.

Andrew

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28th May 08 at 19:06

Seems Windows updates don't work properly anymore

Think i might go back to Vista

Marc

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28th May 08 at 19:13

Never had any problems when I had XP.

I prefer Vista, has been a lot more stable for me.

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28th May 08 at 19:43

quote:
Originally posted by Marc
Never had any problems when I had XP.

I prefer Vista, has been a lot more stable for me.

That's strange!! Most say XP is more stable including me.

N3CRO

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28th May 08 at 22:30

I find XP more stable than Vista but personally I haven't found any version of Windows very stable since ME.

John

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28th May 08 at 23:43

Notihng stable since ME, do you know what you are talking about

Andrew

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29th May 08 at 07:09

Millenium

We still have customers on Windows 2000 - but that's because they are tight as fuck

Might throw on Me on an old bag of shite and have a play

Superlite Ltd.

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29th May 08 at 09:08

use pigeon

it doesn't use 5million ram like msn does

Andrew

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29th May 08 at 18:31

I've 4GB of RAM so don't think MSN is gonna make much difference.

N3CRO

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29th May 08 at 20:01

quote:
Originally posted by John
Notihng stable since ME, do you know what you are talking about

Being a computer engineer, yes, I do

John

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29th May 08 at 20:09

Windows ME is possibly the worst operating system they have every created, was terrible and certainly not anywhere near stable.

The advent of XP all but stopped blue screens, they were every few minutes before that, especially with ME.

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29th May 08 at 20:20

ME stable

I hope that is a pisstake. It's infamous for being one of the worst operating systems MS have ever released. I'd rather have Windows 3.11

John

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29th May 08 at 20:23

He's a computer engineer mate, knows what he's doing.

N3CRO

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29th May 08 at 20:47

quote:
Originally posted by John
He's a computer engineer mate, knows what he's doing.

I never once had a problem with ME. Clearly it was your computers that were the problem, not the OS.

John

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29th May 08 at 20:48

_Allan_

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29th May 08 at 20:56

quote:
Originally posted by Necromancer

quote:
Originally posted by John
He's a computer engineer mate, knows what he's doing.

I never once had a problem with ME. Clearly it was your computers that were the problem, not the OS.

I know wiki aint gospel but it's just one of many sites that pretty much sum up ME.

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Criticisms
Windows Me was criticized by users for its instability and unreliability, due to frequent freezes and crashes. A PC World article dubbed Windows Me the "Mistake Edition" and listed it as the fourth "Worst Tech Product of All Time".[11] "Shortly after Me appeared in late 2000," the article states, "users reported problems installing it, getting it to run, getting it to work with other hardware or software, and getting it to stop running."

The System Restore feature sometimes ended up restoring a virus which the user had previously removed, since its method of keeping track of changes is fairly simplistic.[12] By disabling System Restore, the virus could be removed, but the user lost all saved restore points.

John

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29th May 08 at 20:57

I can't believe somebody who is a 'computer engineer' is trying to tell us that ME is more stable that XP and Vista.

What do you do as a computer engineer?

Aaron

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29th May 08 at 21:05

He sounds like a Windows ME salesman to me tbh

Ren

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29th May 08 at 21:17

Wasn't that the OS that technically still ran on MS-DOS?

Andrew

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31st May 08 at 03:23

Me was the first OS that they tried to do away with MS DOS. Wasn't a very popular OS as a lot of users found it to be very unstable. Personally, i found it to run quicker and was more reliable that 98SE. I'm assuming it was down to hardware and drivers.

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