re: Can I customise WinME to free up System Resources?
Sunday, February 16, 2003 at 12:28 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ms. Eagle
(32450 messages posted)
Memory and resources aren't the same thing. The amount of memory you have installed
has nothing to do with free resources.
To have more free resources available, remove unnecessary applications from your
startup. Anything in your startup is constantly running in the background. Some tips....
First, go into the options of the programs themselves. Right-click on the icons in
the tray area, open each, go through the options to turn off the "tray" or "run at
startup" feature.
For the others, go to Start - Run, type: msconfig. Under startup tab.... Leave checked:
Systray, Scan Registry, Load Power Profile (two), *StateMgr, firewall, if you have
one.
Note: Load Power Profile only if you use power saving schemes. For info. on any other
processes that you have listed, check here to see whether they're needed in your
startup.
AnswersthatWork-Tasklist
Btw, it's best not to use power saving features, as they use resources themselves.
If you do, you can disable that feature for better performance...if you wish.
FYI, info on ACPI or APM:
Advanced Power Management
How to Disable Power Management
Try this DLL Tweak. Windows doesn't do very well at unloading dll's from memory,
when you close programs. This will help free up resources once you close them.
Unload DLLs
Check out Jack Gulley's ME Tips for some great ideas:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winme/r1043993952
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