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re: Question about 'Windows says it's ''Dangerously Low on System Resources''' Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 7:35 pm Posted by smokey (215 messages posted) better idea is to buy more memory...putting a third party prog in means your stretching it even more just for a temp. solution....also if you've had win98 for some time its probably clogged up with leftover bits and needs a format and reinstall to freshen it up On Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 5:42 pm, tyler z wrote: >I have a question about Windows >says it's "Dangerously Low on System Resources": > >There are some thrird-party programs which will resolve this; I use RamBooster. >Whenerver things start to hang, instead of restarting, just run it. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Smokey - please repeat after me... Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 9:31 pm Posted by Paul D (827 messages posted) Resources and RAM are not the same thing This comes up about twice a week. In 9x, no matter how much RAM you have installed, you have 64kb allocated to resources. It is a fixed area that controls the GUI. It is not changeable or tweakable. Paul D On Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 7:35 pm, smokey wrote: >better idea is to buy more memory...putting a third party prog in means your stretching >it even more just for a temp. solution....also if you've had win98 for some time >its probably clogged up with leftover bits and needs a format and reinstall to freshen >it up > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Not good advice... Friday, March 1, 2002 at 3:47 am Posted by Michael (2800 messages posted) RAM does NOT equal resources... More RAM will make no difference. On Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 7:35 pm, smokey wrote: >better idea is to buy more memory...putting a third party prog in means your stretching >it even more just for a temp. solution....also if you've had win98 for some time >its probably clogged up with leftover bits and needs a format and reinstall to freshen >it up > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum