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[cragllo]

Personaly I think Windows 98se was the most stable, XP has too much crap on it, ME has the most bugs by far!! I had it, decided to downgrade to 98se and everything was 80% better!

[bsdpowa]

I would go for 3.x and 95.

[Kubi]

Well, I've only used 98/ME/ and XP, out of all I'd say XP. I've never used 98SE but I hear it's the most stable version. Course I've never used it so I wouldn't know.

When I had ME, I got the blue screen of death ALL the time. It was pathetic.

I still have XP, and I'm fine with it.

[serverph]

single digit versions are cheesy by today's standards, but they are not that bloated yet then, and can be mostly said to be "most stable" too bad today's softwares are not all that backward-compatible with these versions anymore. lolz! i switch from win98se to win2000 via dualboot, in cases where i need apps which would not run in one version or the other. i never installed winxp on my drive (yup, the crap in xp stinks ), though i may yet to try this when i get to require a software which will not run in my installed win OS versions. but so far, i am happy to be sticking it out with win98se for most of the time. longhorn/vista soon? maybe after 10 years... lolz!

[Ryo]

i would have to say xp on that one lol its good (well atleast i think) tho i have only used windows 98 and xp i think xp is the best out of them lol

[cragllo]

KuBi, you mean this screen?

[TimothyA]

If I have to trust my sources, Win2K is the most stablest server platform in the windows series. Windows XP is more for the home user and can be stable if all the bloatware is stripped. So far the most stablest windows I've used was Windows 2003 BETA (Yes, it said beta). I was the early adopter of all three Windows 3.x 95 and 98 and I found them all to be REALLY unstable. But that's just from my point of view.

[Klass]

Dos 6 was the stablest, then 98

[FuChelle]

Out of all the Windows versions that I've tried, I think that 98 is the most stable. Windows ME has way, way WAY too many bugs...I too kept getting the blue screen coming up all the time whenever I tried to do somethng. XP is pretty stable as well but there's too much extra stuff on there that takes up room and makes the computer run slower (it does on my computer ayway).

So, yep...98. It doesn't keep bringing up the blue screen all the time, and it doesn't come with so much "extra" junk.

[arcanistherogue]

I always thought that 2000 was the most stable version. Or 95, Windows 95 was my favorite windows to date, with 2000 right behind it.

98 wasnt too stable at all, it didn't need a password to log into someones profile. I remeber if you keep the line blank and hit enter it enters it as the password and it boots up the users profile.

[Saint_Michael]

i would have to go with 95/88 they didn't have that many problems unlike me and xp cuz those where just whipped and then fixedd later.

[OpaQue]

For some reason, I feel Windows 2000 and windows 98 are the most stable versions of windows. I have had many cases in which games did not run well or did not run at all in windows XP. However, they did just fine in Windows 98. I do agree that Windows XP is advanced and has proven to work a lot faster, but I see people (especially gaming freaks) still sticking on to windows 98.

In other words, I would even like to say ... Windows SuX. no matter how far you go, you cant escape the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH! (BSOD)

[cragllo]

arcanistherogue, on Aug 5 2005, 06:00 AM, said:

I always thought that 2000 was the most stable version.  Or 95, Windows 95 was my favorite windows to date, with 2000 right behind it.

98 wasnt too stable at all, it didn't need a password to log into someones profile.  I remeber if you keep the line blank and hit enter it enters it as the password and it boots  up the users profile.

If you actualy set the password for the profile, you WILL need a password, if you dont you can just press enter, if the password has been set and you just press enter, it dosent load a profile, just default settings.

[karlo]

I think the most stable one is Windows XP as long as you have more than 256 MB RAM, with a powerful Firewall... and a Windows XP with Service Pack 2 installed without any updates from Windows Update...

[shigajet]

Overall, I think Windows 2000 is the most stable Windows OS to date, followed by XP then Windows 98SE. My old laptop has Windows ME and although I haven't had any really bad experiences with it, I wouldn't suggest it over Windows 98 SE. Windows 2000 is built on NT technology, so that is one of the reasons for its stability.

[wariorpk]

Windows 2000 seemed pretty good then our good buddy Microsoft took a nosedive in quality control if you ask me . Windows 2000 is very stable we have it at school and it never crashes. I get a few crashes per week on my Windows XP computer here at home.

[Inspiron]

I only have Windows ME and XP installation CD. Two computers are currently on Windows XP. There was once where one of the computer had some serious error that require formatting. So after formatting, I decided for a change to install Windows ME instead. Installation was faster then Windows XP I must say. System startup fast and smooth too. But it has random jams and lags upon system bootup. Sometimes in a worst case scenerio, it flashed the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death). And the errors are usually due to hardware conflict whereby the message shows all the long hexedecimal addresses and other information.

I have to agree that Windows ME then has alot of bugs, but still its faster then Windows XP during bootup. That's a case for me...

[cragllo]

Dont forget to VOTE for the most stablet too!

[bureX]

I am using Win XP mostly for programming and development. And it's extremely stable! However, many games, hardware components and software applications simply refuse to work and can make a freshly installed Windows XP behave like Windows ME (which is bad)!

On my old computer, I used to have Win98SE, and I was pretty satisfied with it, but Win98 can't handle slow computers very well (32MB of EDO RAM, 166MHz processor, 1MB video memory on the graphics card...) and if I run too many applications, sometimes the good old' blue screen pops up, and when I "press any key", the screen goes black and all that I can do is press the reset button.

When Windows ME was out, I installed it on my (old) PC. Now, THAT WAS HELL! Looks like Windows 98SE, but it's MUCH SLOWER, and I can't do a thing with it because a blue screen will popup every half an hour! Until I switched back to Win98 SE, when working on my PC I clicked on the "Save" button every minute because I was so afraid that it will crash! Windows ME is the WORST OS that Microsoft ever released! I don't know why they even released it at all!

You don't have to be an expert to use Microsoft Windows, but you do have to be an expert in order to keep your Windows installation and all of your data from going up into flames! When I helped out a friend install Windows XP and to configure his PC, everything was just fine. No crashes, no slow-downs no problems! However, after dropping by a week later I saw his computer infected with TONS of spyware, Internet Explorer toolbars, "Get Sex NOW!" icons all over his desktop and a few viruses as well! What would happen if I haven't showed up? That's a big problem with Windows... "Everything is OK!" on first site, but under the hood you can see a bunch of junk which can be extremely dangerous!

Windows 95 OSR2 was pretty good too! (not Windows 95 itself, but the OSR2 version released 1997) I only hated it because you had to restart your computer every time you wanted to change some networking settings! Everything else was working just fine!

[k2wl]

hi there
i think the most stable version of windows so far is windows 2003
i have tried windows 98 , windows 98se , windows 2000, windows ME, windows xp pro, windows 2003 enterprise trial.
although the people say that 98 is the best ever and most stable windows yet, i bet that windows 2003 enterprise that i have tried is most stable till date.
i can say this because i have done some experiments with it.
1) i tried at first windows 98 and windows 98se
what i have done was that i surf the net , install the bunch of programmes, media players ...etc without any patching of them that is with out any security updates and antiviruses or system protective measures.
after couple of days my windows 98/98se becomes very slow and bugy.
it hangs and shows me blue screen couple of times..
i have recorded all the sequence on paper i.e all the programmes i have installed and all the activity i have done.

2) then i have install winows ME on it by formating my hard drive.
the result is that this is the most hopeless OS i have come across it crashes too often.

3)then comes windows 2000.
it is stable good and well poerformer but it is too slow and gives some crashing problems after installing something or surfing the net.

4) i have then install windows xp in three forms
i) windows xp without service packs
ii) windows xp with sp1
iii) windows xp with sp1 and sp2
all three worked better than previous version of windows i.e 98/98se/2000/ME
but windows xp without service pack is very vunarable and crashes somehow to virus attacks and programes instabilities.
but out of service pack catagery windows xp with both sp1 and sp2 is more stable, more fast and less vunarable.
but here comes a bitter side of a tell all windows xp installations require atleast 128 of ram and 8 gb of space to work flawlessly.so it is slow and gives hang up too often.

5) now comes the windows 2003 server enterprise edition.
i have downloaded the trial from microsoft website by registering on it.
it installed wonderfully on my PC when i log in it tells me to activate it to use it for 6 months.
i have done that and tried all the softwres i have used on previous windows editions.
the results are amazing. it handles the processes very well takes less CPU useage. even if i have not install sp1 for it or patch it.
when i have tried to network it with my friends machine on LAN it refused to do so .....so i search the net and found that the windows server 2003 can not be install in the network as a workstation.
but i have manage to do so by some geek tweaks and try to access my computer from my friend's PC but it denied to access the pc so it work like the stand alone machine in the network.

i have found less viruses adware and spywares infecting this windows 2003 installation. it almost never crashed till date and have very few problems of hang ups and repeatedly restarts.

so i have finally come to the conclusion that windows 2003 enterprise trial i have own is the best windows edition ever.

so here is my opinion that windows 2003 is best version of windows ever.

thanx
bye

[machinamedia]

I've chosen windows2003 because i tested almost all windows versions and these one seems very stable. windowsxp with a sp2 is also a good choice.
cheers!

[pawitp]

My XP. I removed nearly every component with xplite then disable every theme effect and stop the theme service!

[gotenx]

I have to say Win2k is the most stable. I have had too many problems with XP. The classic theme overheats my CPU for no apparent reason, and takes up all of my ram. I had to switch to 2k because of that becasue I hate the XP normal theme and like classic. Plus 2k is FAST!!!

[kevlar557]

98se was the most stable windows OS. Me was the WORST out of all operation systems. ME actually stands for "microsoft's euology". Luckily, they did release XP in time to keep their good name.

[dontmaimyourself]

Well I've only used 98 and XP, but I am also going to have to say 98, for the main reason that it actually worked, XP seems to be to unreliable especially on my less than great computer, I also think that XP has to much junk bolted on, that seems to be the trend now each time they try to improve it they make it steadily worse (not counting ME, which I've never used but I will have to trust you that it is rubbish). also XP is really slow for me, but thats my comps fault.