I have a question about the low percentage of my Windows 95 system recources which is 80%, being dangerously low. I understand that it should be set on at least 90 or 95%. Does anyone know if I can manually change that - say like we change screen names or desktop screen savers - and if so I would greatly appreciate the expierence. Would you be so kind as to email me instructions. AOL's tech. support tried but I am confused. Thank you very much and kind regards. Debbie L (debbielam5@aol.com)

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Is the computer locking up or "freezing"?? If not leave it alone. you might check out the tricks and tweaks page at www.95isalive.com


On Sunday, April 13, 2003 at 8:31 pm, Debbie Landmesser wrote:
>I have a question about the low percentage of my Windows 95 system recources which
>is 80%, being dangerously low. I understand that it should be set on at least 90
>or 95%. Does anyone know if I can manually change that - say like we change screen
>names or desktop screen savers - and if so I would greatly appreciate the expierence.
> Would you be so kind as to email me instructions. AOL's tech. support tried but
>I am confused. Thank you very much and kind regards.
>Debbie L (debbielam5@aol.com)
>
>

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Debbie,

Having 80% free resources is NOT dangerously low. In fact, it's good! You can't set 
your resources. Whenever you open a program is uses a certain amount of resources. 
That's the way it all works. Resources in use, have to do with the applications that 
are running, etc. 
    

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Thank you Carol for your reply. Thanks also Steve. Comp. locks & freezes and now as Im working sometimes shows icons: spider, star within circle, smile face; then information on screen begins breaking up, doubles up, text jumbled with graphics looking like all little bits of color. Any ideas? Thanks for the site.


On Monday, April 14, 2003 at 7:26 am, Steve Easton wrote:
>Is the computer locking up or "freezing"?? If not leave it alone.
>you might check out the tricks and tweaks page at www.95isalive.com
>
>

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Have you run a virus scan recently. if so, then I would boot into Safe mode and then run Scandisk and then defrag.


On Tuesday, April 15, 2003 at 10:18 pm, Debbie Landmesser wrote:
>Thank you Carol for your reply. Thanks also Steve. Comp. locks & freezes and now
>as Im working sometimes shows icons: spider, star within circle, smile face; then
>information on screen begins breaking up, doubles up, text jumbled with graphics
>looking like all little bits of color. Any ideas? Thanks for the site.
>
>

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What you describe might be caused by a virus of some sort.  If you do not have any 
anti-virus software installed, you can use TrendMicro's free online scanner, from 
here: 

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

You might also consider installing one or both of these programs: Ad-Aware and Spybot-Search 
& Destroy (I use both, personally).  Both of these are programs for detecting and 
removing "spyware", etc., from your system.  I prefer Spybot but use both for extra 
assurance.  You can get them from the company websites: 

Ad-Aware - http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
SpyBot-Search & Destroy - http://security.kolla.de/

And finally, if you are experiencing the "Dangerously low on Resources" message, 
you can try this: 

From the Start menu, select "RUN" and type System.ini, then click enter.  
Look for [VCACHE] on this page.  If it's not there, you'll need to add it.  Below 
it should have two setting: MinFileCache and MaxFileCache.  These control how RAM 
memory is used for Virtual Cache (temp storage).  Should look like this:

[vcache]
MinFileCache=4096
MaxFileCache=16384

If you have 64MB of RAM, or more, try changing your settings to the ones I provided 
above.  They are based on 64MB of RAM memory.  The usual guidelines for these values 
are calculated as follows: 
MinFileCache= (Amount of installed RAM x 1024)/16
MaxFileCache= (Amount of installed RAM x 1024)/4

So, if you have 128MB of RAM...you might want to try using Min=8192/Max=32768 but 
try the 64MB values first, as they may prove sufficient to solve your problem if 
the cause isn't virus or spyware related. 







On Tuesday, April 15, 2003 at 10:18 pm, Debbie Landmesser wrote:
>Thank you Carol for your reply. Thanks also Steve.  Comp. locks & freezes and now 
>as Im working sometimes shows icons: spider, star within circle, smile face; then 
>information on screen begins breaking up, doubles up, text jumbled with graphics 
>looking like  all little bits of color.  Any ideas?  Thanks  for the site.
>
>

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i have low resorces on my ME its only 39% how can i fix this? appreciate all the help i can get! thanks very much nita hall


On Sunday, April 13, 2003 at 8:31 pm, Debbie Landmesser wrote:
>I have a question about the low percentage of my Windows 95 system recources which
>is 80%, being dangerously low. I understand that it should be set on at least 90
>or 95%. Does anyone know if I can manually change that - say like we change screen
>names or desktop screen savers - and if so I would greatly appreciate the expierence.
> Would you be so kind as to email me instructions. AOL's tech. support tried but
>I am confused. Thank you very much and kind regards.
>Debbie L (debbielam5@aol.com)
>
>

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