Re: CHAT: browsers

En réponse à Robert B Wilson <han_solo55@...>:

>
> ME is worse than 98 second ed.
Not in my experience.

 (i'm running 98 second ed. and i
> haven't
> had a program stop responding for about 2 months and i've never had
> problems shutting down - knock, knock...),
You're lucky, because I've used 98SE myself, and I never could get it to work
more than 2 hours consecutively. It crashed automatically afterwards (and the
computer I used had been checked thoroughly and worked perfectly, without
virus, hardware problems or anything. It really was the OS which was in
trouble). I *never* got ME to crash like that (really, I've even managed to get
it to carry on working perfectly for days without any problem).

I guess the variation in stability of Windows is quite big. But in my
experience and the experience of all the people I know who have ME, it's much
more stable that 98SE, and when it does crash, it recovers very much better
from problems (I read a review from someone who never managed to get a scandisk
up to the end. I find that really strange, since even with my antivirus working
scandisk never takes more than 3 minutes on my 40GB hard drive).

 i don't know how it
> compares
> to first ed., they're both really bad.
In your experience maybe, but not at all in mine. So please don't generalise.

  i've heard that XP pro is
> great,
> but XP home is so dumbed down that i'd go crazy if i tried to use it.
>
On that we agree.

Christophe.

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