Yes. Windows ME can be a bit tempramental, and does suffer from memory leaks. However that seemed to be a Microsoft problem of the day as Windows NT 4.0 had the same problem with memory leaks.
ME was badly marketed as being a prettier and more featured version of Win98SE. Actually it needs rather a lot of memory in comparison to Win98SE and NT 4.0. If you give it 384~512Mb of RAM it is actually very stable.
People got it to upgrade Win98 machines and did not realise that they really needed to upgrade their RAM as well :(
Also, most manufacturers of the day shipped with only 128Mb of RAM which really is not enough. I see my machines using up to 320Mb which is about the same as I get with XP pro. I guess I haven't seen Win 98SE get much above 180Mb, and Win 2000 above 250Mb.
Those figures are for an almost idle status.
It did help if you set machine usage to "network server" and manually set virtual memory.
Another trick was to periodically minimise applications that you knew had memory leaks.
:)
