System Resources, how to .....
 

One of my PCs is a PII 366 with 96 Mb RAM, and I do not understand one thing. When I do not have anything open, except for ICQ, ZoneAlarm, McAfee and Wingate. I only have 22% resources left, which is hardly enough to open photoshop without crashing it.

How can that be, I have another PC which is even older and that one has 88% left with almost the same programs open, but only 32Mb RAM AND that is a PI 133 (yup, those suckers still work:)).

Is there a way to see what programs are running in the background? Maybe something is running that I am not aware of and is sucking all my resources away.

format C won't be an option:p

OS ?

any time you go into the task manager, it shows you what programs are running in the background and how much CPU time and memory they're using...

I would like to know this as well.... I only have 65% resources left with only explorer and ftp open, no icq or Norton stuff.... is this bad? :(

Win 98 second edition.

I might buy more RAM, with the low dollar rate it must be a bargain here now.

Down to 16% now, I looks like windows is not automatically clearing up space once a program is closed.

Here, try this. It can help free up some memory for you. It's not a cure but it is handy to have when you are on the verge of a crash.

http://www.analogx.com/contents/down...tem/maxmem.htm

Download and install adaware...

okay, this one does the job, a little. it frees up to 60%. Thanks.


Adaware? What is that, where is that?

Adaware is a software that detects and remove spyware from your pc, even if the spyware is not able to connect to the internet because of the firewall sometimes it takes a lot of system resources and make it stuck...

You can find it on download.com

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

If you've downloaded a ton of software over the years, chances are you have tons of spyware shit you didn't know about. The first time I ran this, it came up with about 150 different things that needed to be deleted.

When you run it, it will ask if you want to make a back up of the stuff it's going to delete. Make sure you choose yes if you use things like the free versions of Eudora, Opera, and the old Cute FTP so you can pop the needed stuff back in.

This program is easy to use and you won't wreck anything if you choose the back up option.