Did they ever manage to fix this mess through patching...

Did they ever manage to fix this mess through patching? I remember having it in high school on my first desktop but it always ran like ass and I would constantly get blamed for it crashing

no, it crashes eventually

no but its still better than android

It never worked, just like Millennials

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underrated.

just seeing this 15 years later still makes me rage

Yeah, it's possible to have a good install of ME.

Do a fresh install. (OEMs never got it right).
Disable System Restore (it's almost never a good idea to use it).
Disable Active Desktop.
Disable Hibernation (do this on newer Windows, too).
Don't install 3rd party drivers.

ME boots the fastest on my old machines (which have 95 thru XP installed).

SHEEET, I FORGOT ABOUT THIS.

Literally all Win9x does this.

The OS itself was as stable as win98, but the drivers and OEM installs were really shitty

Was about to say I never remember having a problem with WinME but I was a kid so I didn't really use my computer much.

Then I saw this and PTSD kicked in.

Hahaha holy fucking shit.

I didn't even remember this but now I do.

Its like a repressed memory came to surface.

Is this what being triggered feels like?

fuck you, no really, fuck you, it took me years to forget that shit and now you just make all the memories float back like the a turd.

No. What happened was they basically said screw it and rebased a new OS off NT 4.0.

Oh for fucks sake, you got me.

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me wasnt the worst
but the lack of ms dos was inexcusable

active desktop was pretty cool feature though
something like a 2000's conky

STOP LIVING IN THE PAST

>tfw I have never had any problems with WinMe

I remember I actually used Active Desktop.

I had a webpage embedded on the desktop with links to common things that opened up in IE.
I also had a div filled with images.
These images were MSN-linked images that showed if some of my friends were on MSN at the time, and I never had MSN open.
I wrote a server-script that opened MSN for me when I clicked any of them.

Thinking back. Holy fuck it was awful, and so cool, and so awful.

Crashy piece of shit AD.

neither, the sole reason i eventually installed XP was so i could store files over 4G in size

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what the hell was the point of it

why didn't they just make a home version of 2000

>why didn't they just make a home version of 2000
they started to, see codename Neptune
eventually that was dropped and they worked on whistler instead (aka XP)

I love hibernation on Windows 7