System Resources

Sounds like a system conflict/mem leak...

You might want o adjust how your memory is handled. Sometimes windows doesn't manage the cache to well. There are a number of memory tweaks programs out there that are pretty good if you don't feel confident making the changes manually. I use Cacheman and think it works prety well with only a little manual intervention.

http://www.outertech.com

You can also check out C|Net:

http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10014.html?tag=dir

Just make sure you read through the info completely however you decide to proceed.

BnR65, do you happen to be on a cable, dsl, or other high speed connections?

And if so are you running an up to date virus and firewall program. The reason I ask is about a week ago a friend had a similiar problem and needless to say after she looked at everything else she then did a virus scan with a new up to date scanner and found half a dozen virus' running all around her sys. Needless to say once she solved that problem she has not had any memory problems since.

Viruses....make good memory 'leaks'...

BoR65,

WinXP will likely solve most of your problem. The issue lies in that WinME manages memory poorly. Regardless of how much RAM you have, your "resources" will still drop at the same rate, since that term refers to your System and GDI heaps, not your RAM (per se).

The quickest and easiest way to solve this problem is to limit the number of extraneous (and often useless) programs that start up as Windows starts and then run in the background, doing essentially nothing.

Yo can see what you have running at startup by default by going to "Run" in the Start Menu and typing "msconfig". Look in the "Startup" tab, and disable any apps that are set to run at startup that you don't need. Be careful, though; some of those apps (namely "Explorer" and "Systray", unless you're running Litestep or another alternate shell) have to be running, as well as proprietary keyboard and motherboard softwares that your PC manufacturer may have set to run.

Luckily, WinXP doesn't handle memory in the same fashion, so the problem is more or less moot in it.

Hope this helps.

I've heard that only win2k/xp recognize more than 128MB of ram, anyone know if this is true?

MooShoo.. I think you are thinking of the 512MB barrier. Previous versions weren't designed with the idea that people would install more memory than that. I believe with some serious tweaking you can get windows to recognize the memory but I wouldn't suggest it.

Thanks everyone for your help. Still can't wait for XP!