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Re: CHAT: browsers

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 11, 2003, 8:28
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. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.