How Can I Make My WinME Crash?

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  1. draqon Banned Banned

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    I know how to make WInME crash!
    Install Counter Strike Source
    and play it on
    141.213.51.216:27015

    lets see if it crashes
     
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  3. RubiksMaster Real eyes realize real lies Registered Senior Member

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    Ha ha! You're right, that is quite a difference! I must not have been thinking. After all, it is at least powerful enough to run such a bloated an buggy OS as Windows ME.

    Athelwulf: If you want to convert it to an extra storage drive, what about just going internal? Do you plan on moving it between computers often? An external enclosure for it would cost around $20. Using it as an internal store drive, however, would be free, and only cost about 5 minutes of your time putting it in (and another 5 taking it out).
     
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  5. leopold Valued Senior Member

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    i run winme.
    i hear alot about how buggy it is.
    question:
    where are all the bugs in winme?

    the only bug i have found is when i play movies with powerDVD then close the app. and then try to go online. and this has only happened twice. in all probability it has something to do with powerDVD not winme
     
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  7. Athelwulf Rest in peace Kurt... Registered Senior Member

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    I have to decide whether I want to go in between computers or not. But most likely I won't need to.

    I was about to ask about the danger that the drive would get infected with viruses if it was put inside the computer, but then after thinking about it, I guess the risk is the same with an external drive.

    You know what... I've yet to actually attempt to crash that old thing again. Which reminds me that I still have to get the thing connected to the Internet. I think I'll go configure it now.
     
  8. Athelwulf Rest in peace Kurt... Registered Senior Member

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    Hey... Guess where I'm posting from.

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    That's right! My ME.

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  9. Athelwulf Rest in peace Kurt... Registered Senior Member

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    Well, I got a bug for ya. And I've only been running it for about ten minutes.

    I just moved some stuff into the Recycle Bin, then clicked "Empty Recycle Bin". It deleted the stuff, but then the window became unresponsive and I had to end the task through Ctrl+Atl+Del.

    It may have been just a fluke, but I tells 'em as I sees 'em.
     
  10. RubiksMaster Real eyes realize real lies Registered Senior Member

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    Actually, I was running ME a few years ago, and I didn't start having problems for a long time. It seems to me that under normal operating conditions, it does just fine, but if you try to push it harder, or you have less-than-ideal conditions (such as a very full hard disk) then it just blows up.
     
  11. leopold Valued Senior Member

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    like i said earlier i always had problems with winme after i ran the update on it.

    personally i will never run updates on any windows installation i have again.

    as far as the full hdd goes it will never happen cause i have a cd burner and a 18gb hdd. there is just no way i will ever fill it up.

    one other thing is that i use firefox instead of internet explorer
     
  12. invert_nexus Ze do caixao Valued Senior Member

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    Hmm.
    What's your ip address again?

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    (You do realize that you're asking for it. If you don't update your computer, then you basically have wide open security holes that practically any script kiddie can mambo right through.)


    I used to use it too and actually really didn't have any more problems with it than 95 or 98.

    But, I hear that the problem is a memory leak.
    That is, the system doesn't free up memory like it should, and over time all your RAM gets eaten up and the system freezes.
     
  13. RubiksMaster Real eyes realize real lies Registered Senior Member

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    Yes, back when I was running ME, I used to always get the "Warning, system is low on resources!" error message. I couldn't leave it running for more than two days without a restart.

    This is a bad idea! It was probably just a one-time thing where something went wrong. You should always do the updates. There is a reason Microsoft offers them.
     
  14. draqon Banned Banned

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    Join me on counter-strike-source

    141.213.54.166:27015

    and see if winme crashes
     
  15. Athelwulf Rest in peace Kurt... Registered Senior Member

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    I can't do much with my mouse, because it's one of those ones with the ball in it, and it sucks.

    And I have dial-up.
     
  16. draqon Banned Banned

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    well that makes it more fun. One frame you got me on a trigger and the next frame your dead in a pool of blood.
     
  17. Athelwulf Rest in peace Kurt... Registered Senior Member

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    Oh yeah, that's hella fun.

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  18. leopold Valued Senior Member

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    i have noticed my ip address changes.

    i am also behind 2 firewalls,a nat router and zone alarm.
    a hacker that is online and searching for open com ports will never find my machine.

    as far as the memory leak goes i havn't turned off my machine in 3 or four days.

    i also don't have any anti-virus software installed
    but i do have 3 or four different antispywares and i use them all
    i also have a system cleaner that removes useless and dead registry entrys and shortcuts. i hardly ever run this app. without it finding at least some problems.
     
  19. leopold Valued Senior Member

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    you can get an optical mouse for $10.
    no pad, no balls

    when i first got my internet connection i had dialup
    i always liked to download files and my cutoff was 12MB, not because it was a limit but because of the time involved. with my new high speed connection i average about 120KB/s.
     
  20. Athelwulf Rest in peace Kurt... Registered Senior Member

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    First of all, I already have one and am using it on my newer computer. And I'm not installing software onto the older one, since there's little free space as it is.

    Second of all, this is the same computer that I want to crash... There's no point spending money on it to make it work better.
     
  21. Athelwulf Rest in peace Kurt... Registered Senior Member

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    Okay, so it's official: I got my WinME connected to the Internet. Where can I get me some juicy viruses?

    Also, is there a way I can make an exact copy of the harddrive and save it somewhere? I don't mean a back-up, but a copy that could theoretically be moved back onto the reformatted harddrive – or any harddrive – and booted as if it were the original OS. Or alternatively, can the entire OS and all files be moved, intact, to somewhere else?
     
  22. draqon Banned Banned

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    download subseven ... its a hacking program that is also loaded with trojans
     
  23. leopold Valued Senior Member

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    you just plug it in like your old one. there is no software to install.
     
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