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by techiwoman 1 view

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Hi All,

I'm have a problem with my Windows 98 machines. When I check the resources available, it is always under 90%. When my clients use the machines, the resources drop very quickly (50 or 60% resources--sometimes less). When I check what isrunning, there are no programs running in the background. We have to reboot the machines to get the resources back. My client is running high graphics programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Quark Express and Freehand, but when the programs close, they do no release the resources they were using. Upgrading the RAM to 256 has not helped, nor did a program called Mem turbo. I have cleaned the registry of the junk I can find, emptied the start up group and remarked the load= and run= lines in the System.ini.

Any more ideas? This is happening on all my Windows 98 machines, so it must be something OS specific. This does not happen on my Win 95 or Win 2000 machines. I cannot upgrade to 2000 on these machines since some of the programs will not run on 2000.

Please help. I'm desperate.

Thanks

TechiWoman.

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by philthegreat

Well, it is not easy to identify.
I suggest you to try this.
1) in the computer, use "run" -->msconfig -->uncheck all the possible ones (some programs can eat up more memory and will block the software to release them.)

2) Any updates or patchese from the vendors of the software to solve the release memory problems? (I have checked Microsoft: not found. sorry!)

3) Yes, you are right; it is a problem of the windows for many years; but can the win98 SE with all the available patches solveit?

4)Plus, if you are using a browser IE 5.5; uninstall it by means of and special program.
(EradIE); IE 5.5 is buggy and eats up many memory too. Use IE 5.0 or lower or other programs.

5) If still cannot be solved; tell it to Microsoft because you may have found the bug of the software that they don't know. (Not found in knowledge base).

by techiwoman

Thanks for the help. Your suggestions seemed to help a little. If you have any other ideas, please let me know. I'm desperate.

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