re: The usual rubbish Wednesday, October 23, 2002 at 5:54 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Mac (2831 messages posted) Thanks Paul! Certainly ME is a pain to maintain. Better now though with LOTS of RAM, a registry modification to unload dlls not in use, and RAMpage 1.6. All current freezes (NO crashes) have been due to the recycle bin. On Wednesday, April 10, 2002 at 3:27 pm, Paul D wrote: >Your whole reply is built around the premise that resources >and RAM are the same thing. This is just not true. Resources are a fixed >area of memory, and the total size of that area remains the same regardless of how >much RAM you have installed. Desktop icons use resources, but no more so than having >them on the taskbar - it's still part of the GUI, which is what resources are largely >for. Windows 98 should run OK with 192mb of RAM (182 is an impossible number - >RAM comes in multiples of 8) Here are a couple of Knowledge Base articles about >resources:- Free >System Resources Do Not Return to Previous Value (Q146418) >System >Resources Decrease After Starting and Quitting a Program (Q185832) > > >color=#3366FF>Paul D > > Written in response to: The usual rubbish (Paul D: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 at 3:27 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Windows says it's ''Dangerously Low on System Resources''' (Jennifer: Tue, Apr 9, 2002, 4:47 pm) re: Question about 'Windows says it's ''Dangerously Low on System Resources''' (Mac: Tue, Apr 9, 2002, 5:12 pm) re: Question about 'Windows says it's ''Dangerously Low on System Resources''' (Cristina: Tue, Oct 22, 2002, 10:39 am) re: Question about 'Windows says it's ''Dangerously Low on System Resources''' (Mac: Wed, Oct 23, 2002, 5:58 am) re: Question about 'Windows says it's ''Dangerously Low on System Resources''' (Don Frost: Mon, May 12, 2003, 5:20 pm) re: Question about 'Windows says it's ''Dangerously Low on System Resources''' (jack harwood: Tue, Apr 9, 2002, 6:54 pm) re: Question about 'Windows says it's ''Dangerously Low on System Resources'' (Ian: Wed, Apr 10, 2002, 4:18 am) The usual rubbish (Paul D: Wed, Apr 10, 2002, 3:27 pm) re: The usual rubbish (Mac: Wed, Oct 23, 2002, 5:54 am) re: Question about 'Windows says it's ''Dangerously Low on System Resources''' (doitwright: Mon, May 24, 2004, 11:23 am) re: Question about 'Windows says it's ''Dangerously Low on System Resources''' (Al: Thu, Apr 21, 2005, 3:01 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum