In general, you can save your self a lot of winME hassles if you run system monitor (I keep it mostly off to the right side of the desktop) and keep an eye on your available memory (watch CPU performance is good too). If it is too low your system will be balky and even freeze. I have it set to run on system startup. With 512 MB installed, after boot it is typically 244 MB available. I like to keep it over 100 MB. Most IE6 sessions drop it approx 10 to 30 MB. Other applications affect it similarly. When you close IE6, it is pretty good at giving back the memory it used. Many other applications are not. THE CHEAP FIX? System Hibernate does a good job of restoring good memory management. During Anti Virus sweeps available memory will go way down and that's normal, at least with GriSoft but the rest of the time I want to see 140 MB or more available. When it drops under 100 MB I select Start -> Shutdown->Hibernate. This seems to be a secret that no one has know before. My gift to y'all. Merry Christmas!

HTH Bob C.

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how do you run system monitor? Thanks. Larry


On Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 11:31 am, Bob C. wrote:
>In general, you can save your self a lot of winME hassles if you run system monitor
>(I keep it mostly off to the right side of the desktop) and keep an eye on your available
>memory (watch CPU performance is good too). If it is too low your system will be
>balky and even freeze. I have it set to run on system startup.
>With 512 MB installed, after boot it is typically 244 MB available. I like to keep
>it over 100 MB. Most IE6 sessions drop it approx 10 to 30 MB. Other applications
>affect it similarly. When you close IE6, it is pretty good at giving back the memory
>it used. Many other applications are not.
>
>THE CHEAP FIX?
>System Hibernate does a good job of restoring good memory management.
>During Anti Virus sweeps available memory will go way down and that's normal, at
>least with GriSoft but the rest of the time I want to see 140 MB or more available.
>When it drops under 100 MB I select Start -> Shutdown->Hibernate.
>This seems to be a secret that no one has know before. My gift to y'all.
>Merry Christmas!

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Hi Larry, Click on the Start button. Watch the Start Button Menu appear. Then click on the Help menu item. Watch the Help and Support window appear. Maximize the Help and Support window if it does not fill your monitor's screen(or use the scroll bars to view the upper right corner). Look in the upper right hand corner of that window just below the Minimize/Maximize/Close buttons for this screen and you should see a textbox labelled "Search". Enter System Monitor into that textbox then press the Enter key or click the Go button at the right end of that textbox. You may then choose to learn how to use the System Monitor or one of several other winME tools for tracking your computer or network performance. That should help. Let us know if it doesn't.

HTH Bob C.


On Tuesday, December 11, 2007 at 7:50 am, larry wrote:
>how do you run system monitor?
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>Thanks.
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>Larry
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