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To: PMS Witch who wrote (21191)	7/9/2001 10:44:37 AM
From: PMS Witch	Respond to of 110652

I was looking at Windows Resource Meter -- the ‘beaker’ icon that turns green to red as it empties. When the mouse hovers over it, System, User, and GDI percentages are displayed. Right click this icon and select Display opens a window with essentially the same information. Previously on this thread, these values were explained. Briefly, Windows 9x and earlier have a fixed quantity of these resources, and as today’s systems have sufficient hardware to support considerably ‘busier’ users, it is typically these resources which users exhaust first. I wondered how many resources common tasks require. I’ve listed the percentage my resources decline when I use the program. S U G Program or task 5 6 0 Dialing my ISP 3 4 0 Connected to ISP 6 6 3 Naviscope 0 0 3 Internet Explorer not displaying any pages 2 2 6 Internet Explorer displaying SI home page 3 3 1 Ctrl-N, Open another browser window 2 0 4 Ctrl-N, Open another browser window and display SI Home 3 3 0 MS-DOS Window 5 5 3 Excel (No sheet opened) 5 5 5 Excel with big sheet opened 3 3 3 Word (No document opened) 5 5 5 Word with medium sized document opened 0 0 0 Notepad with small text file opened 1 0 1 Windows Explorer 5 3 5 Outlook Express 3 0 3 Norton Speed Disk 3 3 0 Windows Find (Searching disk for files with matching text) 1 0 1 Microsoft RegClean (Downloaded program) 0 0 0 RegEdit 1 0 1 My Computer 1 0 1 FreeCell (while winning game) 1 0 1 Solitare (while winning game) 3 3 3 Control Panel / System / Device Manager tab I began trying to locate something that jumps out as a ‘resource hog’ but everything I’ve looked at seems to consume five percent or less. When I get really spread about, my system has about a dozen windows opened and my available resource percentage falls to the mid sixties. Cheers, PW. P.S. Opening HotMail in Internet Explorer consumes one additional percent of resources more than opening SI Home page. P.P.S. I’ve not found any program that increases resources. I didn’t really expect to find any, but then again, I’m working with Windows, and much stranger things have been observed.