I have a question about Windows says it's "Dangerously Low on System Resources":

I am having a problem with resources. I keep getting the error message system dagerously low on resources. I have checked to see what else is running and it's not much. It happens when I get online mostly, sometimes just checking my mail triggers it. I have reconfigured my start up using msconfig without results. When I turn my comp on resources are between 60 and 80%. By the time I get online I'm under 60%. Any ideas... I'm out of them. I have 10 gbytes with over 6 free, and 182 ram. I use msn internet service with msn explorer.

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Tech tip. Download and install Ad-Aware 5.7 from www.lavasoft.de (made in USA) it is a free program which removes web-bugs and deep scans your registry for unauthorised changes made by third party programs coming on to your computer via the web. If you have already done your, clean,defrag,scan maintenance in safe mode, I think you might get a pleasant surprise. Ad-Aware took 282 pieces of net-junk off three computers locally and ALL are working much better. One with ME and two with 98se. Three of a brand new XP !!! You can also try defrag.exe from ME which is three times faster! E. demographics@wol.be


On Tuesday, April 9, 2002 at 4:47 pm, Jennifer wrote:
>I have a question about Windows
>says it's "Dangerously Low on System Resources":

>
>
>I am having a problem with resources. I keep getting the error message system dagerously
>low on resources. I have checked to see what else is running and it's not much. It
>happens when I get online mostly, sometimes just checking my mail triggers it. I
>have reconfigured my start up using msconfig without results. When I turn my comp
>on resources are between 60 and 80%. By the time I get online I'm under 60%. Any
>ideas... I'm out of them. I have 10 gbytes with over 6 free, and 182 ram. I use msn
>internet service with msn explorer.

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There are several factors that could cause this problem..It would be best for you to read the several articals and fixes that Annoyances. have in there "performance" section which is in the window left of the box I am typing in now.. good reading and lots of info. good luck


On Tuesday, April 9, 2002 at 4:47 pm, Jennifer wrote:
>I have a question about Windows
>says it's "Dangerously Low on System Resources":

>
>
>I am having a problem with resources. I keep getting the error message system dagerously
>low on resources. I have checked to see what else is running and it's not much. It
>happens when I get online mostly, sometimes just checking my mail triggers it. I
>have reconfigured my start up using msconfig without results. When I turn my comp
>on resources are between 60 and 80%. By the time I get online I'm under 60%. Any
>ideas... I'm out of them. I have 10 gbytes with over 6 free, and 182 ram. I use msn
>internet service with msn explorer.

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Hello Jennifer, Well the real answer from an engineers point of view is, especially if your computer is like my friend's 98se, with insufficient RAM, and that is because of the content of html web-pages and file sizes these days, so the more RAM ... AND video memory, (16 or 32Mb) you have the better really, but there is another way, and that is to use the Opera 6.01 browser which does use less system resources, as it appears to handle it in a different way and which is easy to empty of temporary files, cookies ... (which take up RAM) (Desktop icons also take up RAM, (I have three, the rest are now on the start bar, something which is really easy to do ) ......... and history and come straight back on-line, which is what I do, as I find that IE freezes after just a short time on-line depending on the web-page content. Good surfing and have a nice one. I am still running fine at 43% sys.res. (i.e. 43% of 256Mb = 110.08Mb : 60% 182Mb = 109.2Mb so you are just about at a standstill. If yu can set your browser to open in only ONE window as keeping the data for rapid changes from one window to another by keeping several windows open at the same time just drains resources for no particular purpose. Or it could be something else as well, such as spyware, according to MCA, which has cause my IE to crash several times. Ian. (E) Marine Engineer.


On Tuesday, April 9, 2002 at 4:47 pm, Jennifer wrote: I have a question about [Reply or follow-up to this message]

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)

Paul D

Just FYI ad ware has updated to 5.83 :)


On Tuesday, April 9, 2002 at 5:12 pm, E wrote:
>Tech tip. Download and install Ad-Aware 5.7 from www.lavasoft.de (made in USA) it
>is a free program which removes web-bugs and deep scans your registry for unauthorised
>changes made by third party programs coming on to your computer via the web. If you
>have already done your, clean,defrag,scan maintenance in safe mode, I think you might
>get a pleasant surprise. Ad-Aware took 282 pieces of net-junk off three computers
>locally and ALL are working much better. One with ME and two with 98se. Three of
>a brand new XP !!! You can also try defrag.exe from ME which is three times faster!
>E. demographics@wol.be
>

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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

Just FYI it is October! I use Ad-Aware 5.82 Plus with Ad-Watch. Well worth $15.

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I have a similar problem with word. When I try to access a word document I get the same response. Some of the respondants seem to chatter on on how good or how bad the OS is but they do not seem to have an an answer on how to solve the problem!!! Did you find a rsolution to your problem?


On Tuesday, October 22, 2002 at 10:39 am, Cristina wrote:
>Just FYI ad ware has updated to 5.83 :)
>
>

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I have the same problem. I have run Spybot SD, Ad-ware, Panda virus scan, I have read all the threads in this form and check each type of fix and I still get the the message and the machine locks up. I am running Win98 SE SR1 with all the patches applied, IE 6 with all the patches applied. It seems that if I disconnect from my DSL I don't get the message but every 15-20 seconds a message that says IE trying to connect to the web do I want to work offline. I click yes and it reappears in 15-20 seconds. I have turned off all the programs in msconfig so nothing is running that I can see. So when I reconnect to the DSL, no popup comes up but after 5-10 minets, just leaving the machine idle, I try to open any program and I get "Dangerously Low On Resources". I am at a loss as to what to do next. Anyone else have this happen to them and how did you fix it.


On Tuesday, April 9, 2002 at 4:47 pm, Jennifer wrote:
>I have a question about Windows
>says it's "Dangerously Low on System Resources":

>
>
>I am having a problem with resources. I keep getting the error message system dagerously
>low on resources. I have checked to see what else is running and it's not much. It
>happens when I get online mostly, sometimes just checking my mail triggers it. I
>have reconfigured my start up using msconfig without results. When I turn my comp
>on resources are between 60 and 80%. By the time I get online I'm under 60%. Any
>ideas... I'm out of them. I have 10 gbytes with over 6 free, and 182 ram. I use msn
>internet service with msn explorer.

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Unfortunately, most of the solutions posted don't help at all. I have gotten my machine 
to have 86% of resources free on boot. And this is a Pentium 200MMX with 256MB of 
RAM (no, it's NOT my main machine). I run the resource monitor and do various tasks. 
I also have Analog X's MAXMEM running, to clear out my ram, I can usually get 60% 
free.

When I delete a lot of files, or empty the recycle bin, the resource monitor suddenly 
goes down from 74% to 0% in the blink of an eye. Appears to be an explorer problem. 
If I'm really patient and wait a while, my resources come back, by explorer is no 
longer responding.

Has anyone got a solution to this yet?

I don't have this same problem on my newer machine (also running 98SE because I hate 
XP). I think it may have to do with my harddrive on the older computer being forced 
to run in MS-DOS compatibility mode.







On Monday, May 24, 2004 at 11:23 am, doitwright wrote:

>I have the same problem.  I have run Spybot SD, Ad-ware, Panda virus scan, I have 

>read all the threads in this form and check each type of fix and I still get the 

>the message and the machine locks up. I am running Win98 SE SR1 with all the patches 

>applied, IE 6 with all the patches applied.  It seems that if I disconnect from 
my 

>DSL I don't get the message but every 15-20 seconds a message that says IE trying 

>to connect to the web do I want to work offline.  I click yes and it reappears in 

>15-20 seconds.  I have turned off all the programs in msconfig so nothing is running 

>that I can see.   So when I reconnect to the DSL, no popup comes up but after 5-10 

>minets, just leaving the machine idle, I try to open any program and I get "Dangerously 

>Low On Resources".  I am at a loss as to what to do next.  Anyone else have this 

>happen to them and how did you fix it.

>

>

> 

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