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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: George Dawson who wrote (10863)	5/13/2000 8:55:00 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Has anybody come up with a better solution for these pesky "inadequate system resources." No. The system resources that cause the biggest problems are two fixed size 64k memory blocks. Buyig more memory doesn't change the size of these two blocks. Following is a copy of a posting to a news group listing some things you can do to keep from exceeding the system resources you are having trouble with. "The system resource stacks you're referring are two 64K fixed size stacks. Adding memory will not increase the size of these stacks. Instead, you have to reduce your usage by cutting down on the number of programs you're loading at start up and reducing the number of programs you load concurrently. Note however, that typically system resources are not a problem until they drop to below 10% or 15%, depending on your usage patterns. If you're hovering around 50% regardless of what you're doing on the machine then you're fine. However, if you want to decrease your usage of the pools at startup, the first thing is to reduce the number of applications you're loading at startup, reduce the number of applications in systray and cut back on eye and ear candy such as active desktop, system event sounds etc. You can reduce the startup programs, and typically the applications being loaded in systray by using msconfig (start->run->msconfig). Click on the selective startup option then click on the startup tab. Clear the checks next to anything other than taskmon, scanreg, the load power profiles and systray that you really don't need running all the time. Disable active desktop by do art->settings->active desktop and clearing the option. Reduce or eliminate system sound events going start->settings->control panel->sounds and multimedia and unassigning sound events."