Jack
Sat Apr 24 12:07:51 CDT 2004
N.B. This is just an alternative restatement of Mike's advice:
Startup Configuration for Program Launching
Use Start - Run - MSCONFIG and go to the Startup tab. Compare the
listing there with the following Startup checklists:
http://www2.whidbey.com/djdenham/Uncheck.htm
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php
http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/startlist.htm - has trojan related items
listed
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm
Note: Please ensure that you fully understand the purpose of a
startup item, how and why it was put into the startup, and the
consequences (if any) of removing it before you make any changes.
Some items are very important for the proper and safe functioning of
your computer, including at least one item that is listed twice,
LoadPowerProfile.
Also see
http://www.onlinehelp.bc.ca/tips.htm#resources
for an explanation about System Resources.
Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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Microsoft MVP
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When you have everything humming along well, I urge you to consider
reenabling SR.
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<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2d8001c4288e$d5a08370$a401280a@phx.gbl...
Mike, I should have said disabled system restore via the
performance tab and trouble shooting tab. I think only
twice in 3 years it ever restored anything. I will check
those url's you sent although I have only had this problem
recently. Sometimes I used to have 5 and 6 windows open
with no trouble.
Thanks
Kelly
>-----Original Message-----
>You appear quite understandably to be a little confused.
Resources have
>nothing to do with either disk space or memory but rather
refer to two small
>64KB stacks used by the system for 16 bit applications
and modules. The size
>of these stacks cannot be increased. Shutting down
system restore (I wonder
>how you did that, I have to assume you mean you disabled
it in the GUI) will
>have made no difference and not running Outlook Express
and Messenger will
>only affect free resources slightly.
>
>You have already identified the cause of your problem,
namely some of those 33
>processes you have running when you have shut down all
but systray and
>explorer. Whilst a few of those are basic Win Me
services that cannot be
>stopped without crashing the system over twenty are
associated with programs
>installed on your system.
>
>You should be able to significantly improve resources at
boot time by removing
>all unnecessary applications from being launched each
time you boot your PC
>and only opening them as and when you need them. You may
also be running a
>program or programs that doesn't release resources when
closed, which is a
>problem when running any Win 9x operating system
especially Win Me.
>
>A good place to look to for advice as to which programs
need to be run at
>startup and those that can be safely disabled, is
Pacman's site where he lists
>what should definitely be retained and which can be
safely removed from the
>startup axis (
http://www.pacs-
portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm). Reducing such
>applications and only starting them when required can
free up significant
>resources. Not though that before disabling any
application that you make
>yourself fully aware of its purpose and understand what
the consequences might
>be, if any, of disabling it at start up.
>
>You might also want to check out Jim Eshelman's site for
some ideas of how to
>better manage your resources -
http://www.aumha.org/a/resource.htm
>--?
>Mike Maltby MS-MVP
>mcmaltby@hotmail.com
>
>
>Kelly Smith <kbsmith9@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi from Ohio, lately I have been getting an occasional
>> message about low resources. on a reboot I show about
65%
>> available but they quickly get used up and I can go down
>> as low as 8%. At this level new windows won't open and
>> even though I close about everything down it never gets
>> back to 65%. I closed down system restore and it helped
a
>> little. Never works for me anyway. Looks like outlook
>> express takes about 21 mb and ms messenger about 11 mb.
I
>> don't even use messenger. can I uninstall it without
>> having any problem with express. What can I eliminate
from
>> my startup to save resources. when I close everything
>> except explorer and systray, I still have 33 processes
>> running according to ad-aware. Dell 4100, 512 ram. Zone
>> Alarm, Ad-aware, Norton Virus and McAfee, popup stopper
>> are the progams I run all the time. Never seemed to
bother
>> anything until recently. Thanks
>
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