I am quite often getting pop-up saying this system has preformed an illegal operation and will shut down. And it does. Anyone know how to fix this problem? It's a windows 98

Nez

Mainly I use Linux,as generally I'm a cheap-skate when it comes to parting with cash.
However,I do have XP running on another pc,and have been doing so since December,2001.Yes,as with all things Redmond,it has it's critics,but overall it's ok.If you have a low "spec",say at least a 1ghz processor,512 mb ram memory,an 80 gb harddrive,and a small 32mb graphic card,then even with this configuration,your motherboard will be far better off than using the awful ME offering,which was not a new operating system,but simply "block code",or "extra" code tagged on top of Windows 98 SE,to give a new desktop look,extra features,and the ability to recognise new hardware,hence more driver code.The whole project was a mess,a rushed,or even a botched job,as Windows 2000 was due,and MS were concentrating on XP.Even the soon to be retired Mr Gates,admited that ME was a shambles.Avoid like the plague.XP as Scott has said,is the most stable Redmond offering to date.

Footnote:
Also,see this link:http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/operati...-me-27539.html

shunned

click on "watch this movie"
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/23937

ScottGem

So? When Dollar Bill was demoing a beta version of Win 98 it crashed. That's old news. There is no doubt that the entire Win 9x line was a kludge. It was built on top of DOS and had to maintain backward compatibility. The use of finite resource pools was a major cause of instability. But Win Me was even worse. It was simply an attempt on Microsoft's part to put out a product for a revenue stream until XP was ready.

The Win NT line was built from scratch to be a multi-tasking, networked OS. That's why Win2K was much better than any Win 9x version. But Win2K was designed primarily for business. It didn't have the support for consumer uses like gaming and other multimedia stuff. That's where WinXP came in.