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To: Duff Gain who wrote (7712)	1/8/2000 1:13:00 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

seems to me that memory leaks are one of the most prevalent windows problems. and perhaps the most difficult to solve. search the microsoft web site for "memory leaks" and you're likely to encounter hundreds of articles. fwiw, i just encountered my first 'low user resources' error the other day. that is to say the first on this new machine. and i have 128mb of mem. on my other machine, with w95 and 64mb, it's quite a different story. much more of an ongoing engagement, or struggle, to maintain system resources. and when everything is said and done and all the suggested remedies have been tried, retried, there is no substitute for simply rebooting the darn thing to replenish resources. having said that, i believe that there are things that you can try that are more effective than some other things. and like PW says, there are basic maintenance steps you can take to prolong your sessions between reboots. one suggestion i have for you is to try this program, memturbo memturbo.com here is a list of the things memturbo claims to do for your system: * Increases available RAM for applications and the operating system * Defragments system memory * Recovers RAM from applications and the operating system. * Recovers RAM leaks from poorly behaved applications. * Performance-tunes your file caching. * No performance-robbing compression. * No system files modified or replaced. * No drivers or VxDs are installed on your system. * Complete uninstall facility (which we hope you'll never want to use!) having tested this program myself on my w95/64mb machine, i elected to remove it because i felt that the memory footprint, or the amount of resources that it took just to run the program, was too great. as i recall, it used about an additional 7% to run. but it worked really good. and i believe that with 96mb, you have enough mem to run this program. it is easy to configure, in fact there are really only two settings to adjust. if you decide to install memturbo, give me a holler and i'll share more details. also, gottfried tried memturbo and he can offer input too. the other area that can be looked at is all the applications you have running in the background that you may not need but are consuming your resources. but for now that's all i've got on memory, duff. at least you have a few things to kick around. <g3> good luck, :) mark