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To: Rich Gottlieb who wrote (4803)	1/9/1999 5:22:00 PM
From: Sowbug	Respond to of 14778

Sounds like you're thrashing. That's the term for virtual memory accesses that take more than 50% of CPU time. Probably your son put on a bunch of garbage that's persistent in memory -- more than 5 icons on the right side of your taskbar is a sure sign. Instead of just throwing out stuff, go to the Add/Remove Programs control panel and UNINSTALL things that are unnecessary (careful, "unnecessary" is left undefined here). That will take out the settings that load the garbage into memory when your system boots up. Or go out and buy a 64 meg SDRAM, install it, forget the problem, and be grateful that you have a good enough relationship with your son that he still comes home during college breaks.

To: Rich Gottlieb who wrote (4803)	1/9/1999 5:57:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Check free disk space. less than 10% of disk size is not good. empty netscape and IE catches. run disk defragmentor. update your viruscan files and check your system for viruses. goto control->panel->system->performance and verify that system is configured for optimal performance. report back if one of these doesn't fix it.... Sean