Before I start, let me tell you that this story is entirely true.

Earlier today, I sat down at one of those newer iMacs. The class was working on a variety of things regarding an essay. I pressed the F12 key to bring up the Dashboard. First, I started to mess around with the calculator. I have no idea how it happened, but when I multiplied two numbers together, the message "DIV BY 0" appeared. Then I clicked clear and started multiplying large numbers together until the calculator finally froze. I pressed F12 again to get rid of the dashboard.

Then I opened up FirstClass (e-mail client) and Safari by accident, both of which took a good 40 seconds to load. After finally ridding the two from my screen, I pulled up the program I really wanted, Microsoft Word. When I clicked File > Open, I got the lovely spinning beach ball and the mouse stopped working briefly. After a few seconds, I felt like shutting the power off when the Open dialog finally appeared. I selected the file I wanted and opened it up. I decided I needed to check the memory because it was being slow. Unsure of where it was, I went to About This Mac. That's when an error message popped up saying that the calculator had crashed. My guess was that it got a stack overflow from recursive addition.

But it doesn't end there! Next, I typed up an essay without a single glitch and saved it, which I promptly closed.

But then I pulled up a previous essay and noticed Find & Replace. I decided it would be "wise" to replace every space with a sentence, then to do it again. Sure enough, Word crashed while it was repaginating.

Next, I decided to goof around with Excel, so I opened that up. I selected column A and chose Fill Series. After a couple seconds, 65,535 numbers appeared. As a processor test, I wanted to fill all rows horizontally as well. When I clicked the little box in the corner of the selection (column A)--and I mean only clicked it--a message popped up saying "Not enough memory".

Wow...


But that's not all, because I had MORE fun with my Vista computer a few minutes ago. Usually, after updates, the first restart is a little weird, but not as weird as THIS!

Because my Wi-Fi card stopped responding, I decided to restart the computer while I took a shower. I saw the option "Install Updates and Shut Down" so I decided to pick that instead. I left and took my shower.

When I returned, I saw the default screensaver rather than my regular one. Apparently, the computer went into the temporary account--not something you want to mess around with. It literally deletes any files that you save in the account folder! I was about to create a new account from the Control Panel when I decided to try the tried and true Microsoft debugging option first: restart! As crazy as it sounds, that brought the machine back to normal.

That was not a good day. It seems like the computers had a grudge against you or something. If I had a day like that, I would .

And people say you can't have fun in English class.

I have a 95 or 98 computer somewhere...
It loves to freeze...
it was the only version of Windows that Sonic CD wroked on...
the rest didn't have the Dino2d file needed for the game...

Sometimes I think my PC is possesed... somedays it will start up on my guest account, select anything I move my mouse over, not let me log out of the account, and sometimes even move the mouse..... just as scary as a BSoD in a dark room alone...

Earlier today, Windows ME crashed four times. No surprise there.

The people of the 20th century feared Y2K: Windows ME. We had a comp with ME on it for years, and it never crashed....

I wish I wasn't that lucky.... everyone allllways asks me to fix their stuff.... and sometimes when I try to do what ever caused the problem, it fixes itself.... AM I A TECH DEMIGOD???? SCAAAAAARY!!!!!

I know some guy who not only uses Windows ME, but he just about WORSHIPS it. If he can get it on something, WinME will be on there. He even uses it has his server OS. And for it? Spambots all the time on his IRC server.

I wouldn't trust ME with more than a goof-around laptop. Even as a secondary OS, I wouldn't trust it. That thing is the single worst operating system from Microsoft, and I know because it was my only laptop for two years. (Of course, I used the desktop more.)