Microsoft further stated that under normal use, the System Restore feature rarely affects user-perceived performance, because the OS will wait for quiescent times to perform backup operations. But with Business Winstone filling up data buffers so quickly, the cabbing process is forced to commence during the timed test period. By disabling System Restore, we acquired repeatable Business Winstone and i-Bench results, and you'll notice that Windows 98 SE performed about 3 to 16 percent faster than Windows Me on Business Winstone on all tested systems. When we upgraded the Windows 98 SE machines to IE 5.5, however, they outperformed the Windows Me systems on our i-Bench Load Pages tests, which indicates that the new browser, rather than the OS, is responsible for the performance gain. High scores are best.
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