System Resources Low (W98)

[t2shorty]

I have Win98SE. My computer didn't come with a recovery disk. When my computer boots up its resources read 94%. While being online is drops to the 80's then 70's then down some more. Ive had this computer or 3 years. Maybe i need to pay a professional to upgrade my system. I just dont know how. Can any of u guys help baby sis.

[jmatt]

This is overkill I know , some information may not be relevant , but
for those that are reading this question & learning rather than
answering , they may get something out of these extra sites .


http://www.pcnineoneone.com/howto/resources1.html
http://aroundcny.com/technofile/texts/tec031200.html
Windows Resources vs. Memory

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http://windows.about.com/compute/windows/library/weekly/aa081100a.htm

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http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2000/2000-06-08.htm
More Resource Leak-Tweaks .

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http://www.aumha.org/a/resource.htm
http://www.aumha.org/a/memmgmtz.htm

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http://www.infinisource.com/techfiles/win-resources.html
Windows 9.x System Resources

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http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.htm
http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/startup/list.html
http://www.pcforrest.freeserve.co.uk/streamlining_startups.htm
http://ww2.whidbey.net/djdenham/Uncheck.htm
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm
http://www.3dspotlight.com/tweaks/startup/start4.shtml
http://www2.whidbey.net/djdenham/Running_items.htm
http://www.infinisource.com/windows98/tune-34.shtml
http://you_know_who.home.att.net/tips/swapfile.htm
http://www.thescarms.com/VBasic/memstats.asp

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http://www.forrestandassociates.co.uk/pcforrest/resources.html
System Resources .
GDI and User Resources explained .

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You can protect your comp from Spyfiles by using these 3 programs .

http://beam.to/spybotsd
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/spywareblaster.html
http://www.lsfileserv.com/index.html

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Free up Conventional Memory .
http://www.geocities.com/thegorx/Windows/Help/Cmem.htm

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http://content.techweb.com/winmag/columns/explorer/2000/11.htm
http://content.techweb.com/winmag/columns/explorer/2000/12.htm
http://content.techweb.com/winmag/columns/explorer/2000/13.htm
http://content.techweb.com/winmag/columns/explorer/2000/14.htm

[jdharm]

Those numbers are actually rather good. They are the type of numbers a great many people long for.

You've got no problems and any improvements you could make would be so tiny that its not worth the effort. Improving from 60% to 90% is easy to do and gets a great perfomance boost, but going from 94% to 96% is hard to squeeze out and won't make that much difference anyway. Consider yourself lucky.

Josh
<a target="_blank" href=http://www.jdharm.net>www.jdharm.net</a>

[coolsights2000]

I have mine slimmed down to the mininum running applications and I am at 65 65 75 right now...

If you have your security programs running like I hope you do... you will never get any better...

Resources are a fixed amount it doesn't matter if you have 64 megabytes or 1 gigabyte of ram...

My wife likes to open to much crap at one time so I leave the resoucre meter running on her desktop.. when she see she is running low she will close stuff out..

Thanks
Mac!!!

I've heard a saying : about 99% of computer problems sit in front of the monitor

[jackha]

What I would like to know is WHAT ARE YOU'RE COMPUTER SPECS I'm thinking about upgrading and I don't know what you have but I want one. I'm at 51% right now and this is all I have running..