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Thread ID: 10114	2001-07-06 01:21:00	System resources v. Free RAM	Guest (0)	Press F1

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15088	2001-07-06 01:21:00	Can someone please explain the difference between the System Resources shown in the Resource Meter (Systems, User and GDI) and Free RAM I use MemTurbo a lot to keep the maximum amount of RAM available but the System Resources still show 30% and my PC slows to a crawl until I reboot. What gives?	Guest (0)
15089	2001-07-06 01:49:00	copied from cachman4.1 'The Graphics Device Interface (GDI) is the graphical system that manages what appears on the screen. It also provides graphics support for printers and other output devices. It draws graphic primitives, manipulates bitmaps, and interacts with device-independent graphics drivers, including those for display and printer output device drivers. 16 bit GDI Resources are limited to 64 Kb. If GDI resources drop below 10% windows becomes very probably unstable The User component manages input from the keyboard, mouse, and other input devices and output to the user interface (windows, icons, menus, and so on). It also manages interaction with the sound driver, timer, and communications ports. Windows 98/ME uses an asynchronous input model for all input to the system and applications. As the various input devices generate interrupts, the interrupt handler converts these interrupts to messages and sends the messages to a raw input thread area, which in turn passes each message to the appropriate message queue. Although each Win32-based thread can have its own message queue, all Win16-based applications share a common one. 16 bit User Resources are limited to 64 Kb.' unless u have to use very buggy software i have found memory managers to be a waste of resorces, not to mention causing gliches. i prefer to use passive tweaks rather than active ones. cachman, xsetup, tweakui, ispeed etc.	Guest (0)
15090	2001-07-06 14:54:00	For the benefit of the original poster this is the tradeoff of using Windows 9x as opposed to NT 9x is really a home OS, if you want to do serious stuff use NT/2000 and there will be no resource problems I used to use memturbo as well until I realised it could do nothing about the resources running out. The resource size limits increased hugely in Win95 over 3.x but can still run out.	Guest (0)
15091	2001-07-10 05:19:00	firstly check how many icons are in your system tray, each one is at least one running process on your system. Then ctrl alt delete and check that list close down you programmes first, with nothing running there should only be Explorer and Systray. Only load programs and utilities when you need them, disable your virus checker, you only needit when online or when you get new files. I use mem turbo too but I load it to flush memory and then I close it again. There too many things to do to free your resources to list in one post.	Guest (0)
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