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To: SE who wrote (43289)	1/10/2001 3:21:49 PM
From: Gary E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 44573

Scott, Jimsy in the shop seems to know a lot about what your discusssing here....drop in... Hal

To: SE who wrote (43289)	1/10/2001 3:44:52 PM
From: Nemer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 44573

as you are using Netscape and I'm using IE there have to be "some" differences .... but on this box ... the one in Mare's office .... all I have (I did all the tweaking and she's pleased with the added speed) on start up is her ThomasKinkade ScreenSaver program ... I even set the virus checker to only activate upon me pressing F9 so it doesn't even set up at the start automatically ... dang, I don't know how you're putting up with that little mem and what keeps your box from crashing A LOT with anything below 50percent ... 70 is my absolutely lowest allowed ... and I don't get there with 5 windows open, email open, and QCharts running full steam with over 30 charts/graphs/etc on itself ... I just opened 15 windows on this old Compaq and it dropped to 48percent ... My main box (not hooked up right now) is the same make as yours with 256meg Ram and a Celery overclocked to ... forget how high I've got it hyped, but somewhere around 750 I think .... and it hardly ever ever gets under 60percent with ten windows and three QCharts operating on four monitors ... so it HAS to be your background stuff ... two methods I've used and both will work ... ONE CntrlAltDelete will pull up a list of things running ... delete them one at a time ... recco writing down what you're chunkingout ... with your ResourceScreen visible and see how the free space increases .. one at a time .... TWO go to Start-Settings-Taskbar and StartMenu-Advanced double clik on StartMenu clik on the plus sign by the side of Programs clik ono StartUp that will show you what you have running AT STARTUP TIME and I think therein lies your problem with mem shortage move all the stuff out of there to underneath Programs and I bet you'll see a vast dif in mem allocation I'll have to give anything beyond this post time for me to hookup the "real machines" this weekend, but I'll bet this will give you a starting area ...... but I might be able to answer a few questions ... gogetemScooter

To: SE who wrote (43289)	1/10/2001 5:16:47 PM
From: OX	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 44573

those MSFT apps sure are pretty fat :-) here are my 2cents, altho a lot of this was covered already i think... i find it useful to have 2 systems. one for qcharts, one for everything else. run it on a real OS (NT or W2K, i run NT4). and when u have multiple systems, you'll need to get one of those cheap (under $100) routers (and hub), and you can get rid of your firewall software. point32.exe... is MSFT intellipoint software for your mouse. depending on the type of mouse and features, it may not be needed. I bot a optical wheel mouse, but I prefer to run w/o the point32 sw as it adds nothing very useful. drwatson.exe... you should be able to do w/o. on NT, drwatson comes up automagically only when theres a problem. I very, very rarely have crashes on NT4.