Windows ME was never very popular due to it’s timing between Win98 and XP. It is every bit as functional and reliable as 98. The real issue that changes in operating systems is memory protection and isolation. Every program uses memory. A lot of programs are flaky. When a program crashes, most commonly it is because the program reads from or writes to some location of memory that is outside of its boundary. In addition, sometimes, BTW, when the program is installed it will replaces certain driver library (.dll) and similar files. With a NT platform each application is given more or less a blank memory slate in which to operate. With the Win 3.x-ME platforms, all applications share a common pool of memory. This is why, in the non-NT versions of Windows, sometimes an application can crash and everything appears okay, until the next application either reads from or writes to some of the trash left by the earlier application.

Windows XP, like the NT platforms before it, use isolated memory locations, plus it protects vital DLLs and similar other files from being over-written. All of which amounts to a more reliable OS.

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