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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)

I think this is pretty senseless, since clearly MS DOS 8.0 is a fully functional version of MS DOS and a pretty remarkable one, too, as it is the very last version of it as well. The fact that it only came bundled with Windows ME does not justify negating it its own Wiki entry, as it can be used as a standalone OS as well. -- Alexey Topol (talk) 00:04, 20 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

MS-DOS 6.22 doesn't have it's own article, and that was the last version of MS-DOS sold in retail as a DOS operating system. If that's not worthy of it's own article, I don't see why a version of DOS that was buried in the least popular version of 9x should have it's own article. DoofusMcGoofus (talk) 00:55, 2 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Okay, I'm no expert in redirects and I'm not experienced enough to be in complicated proccesses like XFDs for instance (since they're meant to be for extremely experienced editors who have a lot of knowledge about the rules in and out), but I think these should be sent to a discussion:

WINDOWS ME - Who types redirects in all caps? I typed similar things (WINDOWS XP, WINDOWS VISTA, WINDOWS 7, WINDOWS 8, and so on) and they do not seem to exist except for WINDOWS.

Windows Georgia - not mentioned in the article.

Windows 98 Third Edition - Not mentioned in the article, Me was never marketed under the Windows 98 name and branding.

LOADER.EXE - What is this? What's the point of this being a redirect. AUTTPEditor (talk) 08:39, 15 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

Great observations and suggestions, thanks! :) 海盐沙冰 _{/ aka irisChronomia / Talk} 13:30, 15 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

As far as I can guess, the Loader.exe thing might have been a redirect to sections that are once part of the article but no longer there. We should remove that redirect.

On Windows ME full caps, ...its existence doesn't make a difference anyways? I think modern Wikimedia software can resolve capitalization differences automatically...?

W Georgia: an unsourced forum discussion mentions the unconfirmed belief that Georgia being the development codename of some sort for ME. [1] 海盐沙冰 _{/ aka irisChronomia / Talk} 13:38, 15 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

On the Georgia stuff: ...a belief which was thought to be erroneous in the discussion. 海盐沙冰 _{/ aka irisChronomia / Talk} 13:42, 15 January 2026 (UTC)Reply