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Memory leaks in Windows Me?

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First post, by DCG Retrowave

Posted on 2020-01-04, 17:31

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I'm currently running Windows Me on my Gateway Solo 9300 PRO. It's running well so far since I just installed it yesterday, but someone online told me that Windows Me suffers from memory leaks and that it could potentially damage my hardware. I had heard about Windows Me memory leaks before, but not permanent damage caused by it. Is this true? From what I understand, a reboot should always resolve the issue (until another leak occurs which would need a reboot as well). I've used Windows Me on a few machines over the past few years and never had any problems.

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Reply 1 of 7, by kixs

Posted on 2020-01-04, 17:34

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There is no need to worry about it. In worst case the computer will hang. But I'm not even sure if ME is any less stable than Win98SE.

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Reply 2 of 7, by derSammler

Posted on 2020-01-04, 17:44

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There are memory leaking bugs in all versions of the Win9x family, especially in the GDI sub-system. It will cause the system to simply crash at some point, even when it's completely idle. It won't ever cause any hardware damage, however.

Reply 3 of 7, by DCG Retrowave

Posted on 2020-01-04, 17:54

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Thanks guys! Yeah, Windows Me has never given me any trouble so I figured I was safe. People can hate it if they want to, but my personal experience with it has been positive 😀

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Reply 4 of 7, by Cobra42898

Posted on 2020-01-04, 20:03

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if for any reason you reinstall winme, just leave out the 'restore point' feature. my PC was much more stable without it.

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Reply 5 of 7, by DCG Retrowave

Posted on 2020-01-04, 20:43

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Interesting. I use System Restore quite often on Windows XP and later so I have been planning on using it with Me. I installed the patch that allows System Restore to function past September of 2001 (there was a weird bug in Me that broke System Restore around that time). Was the stability improvement major or minor?

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