CRT-ALT-DEL is a good way to kill unwanted programs hogging up memory. I have also heard nothing but bad when it comes to memory managing programs. They just take up more precious memory. Setting you swapdisk to a set size and this tip below will yield the best results I think. I can tell you it worked for me. I was downloading entire newsgroups and the files were getting as large as 900 megs! Before I did this outlook (did I mentions it sux for news groups) would crash every time. After I did this it’s been working much better. My advice to avoid “system low on resources” is too run as few programs as possible. If the program is written well when you close it, it should release the memory back to the system. Hope this helps.
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<font color=blue>This tweak is definitely one to pass along to friends. Windows 98 accesses your swap file (virtual memory) before it runs out of RAM (physical memory) -- which, from a user's point of view, is completely nuts. Virtual memory will always operate slower than physical memory, so why does Windows 98 insist on using both? Frankly, I don't know. According to article Q223294 in the Microsoft knowledge base, this new method is more efficient. Uh huh. Thank goodness they've posted a fix!
Yes, if you have more than 64 megabytes of RAM and you're running Windows 98, you'll wanna give this a shot. In your SYSTEM.INI file, under the [386Enh] section, add this line:
ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1
Reboot, and I believe you'll find your system more responsive. Your mileage may vary!" </font color=blue>
Thx & Cya
<font color=green>I may go to <font color=red>hell</font color=red> but at least I won't get lonely</font color=green>
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