Talk: Windows Me
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I've not seen coverage of this in media, but WinME's kernel will try to call out, regardless of whether you tell it to let you update everything manually. Simple installation of e.g. ZoneAlarm will confirm this. I'm not sure how to work this tidbit into the article, either--I know it's true but essentially have no confirmation beyond the screen capture showing ZoneAlarm asking whether I should let it call out. --KQ
- Call out what to where under what circumstances for what purpose? --Brion
- I don't know; I didn't let it. Kern32.exe. Also, I don't have a packet sniffer, so I have no idea what it would have said. I was not in process of trying to update anything, if that's what you mean--just going about my business online when the message came up. IIRC it came up every week and a half or so. I eventually told ZoneAlarm "no" and "remember this answer." --KQ
I've had windows ME for just over 2 years and have *never* gotten system restore to work. Additionally, the error message it gives is unhelpful. KQ
System Restore info bogus
The information on system restore is totally bogus!
- 'System Restore caused a number of major problems' -- problems not major
- 'performance, which some regard as never being a Windows strength in the first place, was noticeably reduced' -- performance not impacted; system restore activities only occur at specific times.
- 'and because it automatically recreated previous system states on every reboot, it made it very difficult for the non-expert user to implement a desired change, even a necessary one such as removing a virus or an unwanted program.' -- Totally wrong. System Restore only restores things if the user selects it upon booting in Safe Mode or from the UI.
--- As someone who fixes computers for a living, I highly disagree with the above, and believe that whomever wrote that has never had to fix ME using SR (or in spite of it), and probably has has very little experience with ME in the first place. SR excels at restoring virii and problems; look on the web pages of Symantec and other AV companies where they explicitely instruct users on how to turn off SR. I definitely consider restoring a virus to a clean system to be a "major problem". Also, the "performance not impacted" claims depend on the SR activities happening only in idle times; this is, of course, an ideal that happens much less often then would be desired, and therefore adds to the the already painful slowness in the 9x series. This is without even mentioning the disk usage. The poster may have a point that SR should not be happening "automatically", but I've had calls where it seems to have done so (although I can't completely rule out user error) and therefore I, like all other professional IT techs, do not trust it.
The whole paragraph in question was worded too complicatedly and I couldn't make much sense of it. I rewrote it in a way which I hope is more NPOV. - Brian Kendig 20:04, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Move?
Shouldn't the article be at Windows ME not Windows Me?
--Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley 07:16, 2004 Nov 23 (UTC)
- I thought so too. However Microsoft seem to think different: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsme/ AlistairMcMillan 13:47, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
