system resources. Some programs eat up more than others. Bloatware.

[woodman13]

Mark this one down to &quot; looking for trouble&quot;.<br>
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Running win 98. plll450. 18 gig harddrive 12 free. 128mg ram.<br>
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Have been monitoring my system resources recently. Taken the advice found on these forums to minimize the number of programs running in the tray, defrag often, and clean out temp files. Still find that the resources available can get below 50% and even as low as 25% depending on the number of programs running. Low resource messages were starting to bug me.<br>
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Here is something to try. Monitor the resources used by each program by checking the resources as the programs are opened.<br>
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Wanted to listen to cd's as I worked and opened Music Match. System gave an error message warning that resources were low. Found that MusicMatch and Real Jukebox used 15% of my system resources. Winamp only used 1%. Didn't check what MS Office ate up.<br>
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Makes sense to support programs (like winamp)that are not real hogs if you are looking to improve system resources. <br>
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Remember when wordperfect and lotus fitt on floppies? What is the deal with these monster programs that have features no one is ever going to use?<br>
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Question? How is RAM related to system resources? <br>
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[guldan]

ram is the majority of ur system resources<br>
the more ram u have the more system resources u have<br>
ram is random access memory<br>
thats what ur computer uses to open programs<br>
also i agree about support non memory hog programs<br>
winamp is the best u should uninstall music match its a hog<br>
also check out winamp screensavers thier awesome

 

[robb]

Quoting from the Win98 bible the system resources in win 98 are related to the GDI.EXE and the USER.EXE and are 64k in size.Graphics software with intense GUI's will chew up these 2 heaps very quickly and the only way to retrieve your 64k heap space is to reboot.If you wish to be rid of these 2 castovers you need Win NT or Win 2000 with NTFS file system.