Frantisek Vlcek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>Win ME is super-slow, super-buggy, super-unstable; super-crappy. > >MR> That's pretty much what I've heard. > >The way I heard it, it's quite a hybrid. With many things inherited >still from good old Dos and subsequent hybrids like W95/W98, while >some things from the newer versions as well. No wonder it's unstable >and bloated.
What Microsoft did was discontinue all support for real-mode drivers. If Windows ME is given any real-mode drivers it won't install them but will install its own default drivers for the hardware in question. And there's no way to prevent it from doing so or substituting any drivers other than the ones it thinks you need. If its chosen drivers don't work (as is often the case) you're left with a very flaky system indeed. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
