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by the gun doctor 2 views

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When you right click on My Computer, select properties and then select the Performance tab you'll see " System Resources". What exactly does that % refer to. I know that it's more than just availible RAM, because several memory manager apps will all tell me that at any given time I only have anywhere from 3 to 15 MB of RAM "free", yet System Resources are at 80%+. So what does it refer to? This applies to specifically to Win 98SE, but is the same for Win 98, and Win 95.

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by ulairi

Usually, what is shown there are the resources available to GDI.EXE and USER.EXE components of Windows 9x. Those track things like the number of open windows on the screen, the message buffers that are used to hold data going back and forth from theinternals of the OS to the user applications, parts of memory management and huge numbers of other things which I do not recall off the top of my head.
Here's a short list, you'd have to dig into the pgoramming references for Windows for more details.
USER.EXE is the Windows input manager and is responsible for input devices, visible windows, and screen icons. It controls direction of input information to application programs. It also handles all requests for creating, modifying, and destroying windows, as well as controlling displayed icons.
GDI.EXE is the Windows Graphic Display Interface manager and manages the process of drawing screen objects.

by rockyolson

Hi systems resourse's are this and only this. Your cpu is like a brain and has memory when progams use the brain it is mesured in resoures the % is how much of the brain is available to use by programs. When you click on performance and get 80% thenyou have that much left for proccessing. So the more you have at start-up the faster you will be able to use programs.

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