Windows crashing, was Re: Bill Gates: Teen Heart-throb!

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 20:37 -0500, Joe R. wrote: Classic suckyness. Heh. I ran Win 2k for a bit and that was sort-of-OK stability-wise, but it ate a *lot* of memory. Plus it still suffered from the gradual destruction which I hate about all Windows flavours; as the system was used it seemed to gradually slow down and eat up more disk space of its own accord (presumably registry bloat, disk caches etc.) My old laptop's on Win '95 which is doing well so far, although I don't use it for much more than Word, telnet, and occasional web access. I'll stick some free unix-a-like OS on it when Windows finally destroys itself on there. I do have access to a Win ME machine, and that thing's the biggest pile of junk I've ever seen; it can't run for more than an hour without something crashing it seems, and forget about trying to do any serious access to shared SMB directories anywhere. XP - only ever used it for 5 minutes and thought the UI was just way too warm and fuzzy and cutesey, urgh. I still miss my previous Win 3.11 laptop to be honest, but the limit in screen resolution on that became the factor in forcing an upgrade. It felt a lot more responsive than any other Windows machine I've used, despite the 486 CPU. cheers Jules