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re: Question about 'Turn Off the Low Disk Space Warning'
Saturday, January 19, 2002 at 5:10 pm
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Posted by r.dudek (57 messages posted)


GO to run;type in msconfg/uncheck all programs running ecxept systemtray and explore. Reboot and check your performance.add back one at a time untill u see a marked perf. loss. Also bring screen resoultion down to true colors or 256. This makes a big diff, >>BOB


On Monday, January 14, 2002 at 3:55 pm, Lowell wrote:
>You may have a bunch of programs loading at startup. A quick way to check this is
>to hit CTRL-ALT-DEL ONCE and look in the list that comes up. If there are more
>than, say, 10 items, it's likely this is where your resource problem is coming from.
> These are programs that run at startup and stay loaded. You can find a list of
>common startup programs and which are safe to disable here:
>http://www2.whidbey.net/djdenham/Uncheck.htm
>

It's also possible you are depleting your system resources by opening and closing
>a lot of windows, for example Internet Explorer. Each time open a window, a certain
>amount of system resources is reserved, and very few programs actually release all
>their resources when they close. There are utilities out there that claim to solve
>this problem, but I don't think it will ever really go away.


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re: Question about 'Turn Off the Low Disk Space Warning' (Lowell: Monday, January 14, 2002 at 3:55 pm)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Question about 'Turn Off the Low Disk Space Warning' (Wayne: Mon, Jan 14, 2002, 6:36 am)
-re: Question about 'Turn Off the Low Disk Space Warning' (Lowell: Mon, Jan 14, 2002, 3:55 pm)
*re: Question about 'Turn Off the Low Disk Space Warning' (r.dudek: Sat, Jan 19, 2002, 5:10 pm)
-re: Question about 'Turn Off the Low Disk Space Warning' (Windude: Wed, Jun 19, 2002, 10:43 am)
*re: Question about 'Turn Off the Low Disk Space Warning' (trev: Fri, May 21, 2004, 12:02 pm)
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