i have a piii450mhz w/128mbs ram and windowss 98se
when i right click on a file or folder to
bring up the options my mouse freezes for 10-20 secs then the menu pops-up
and every thing works…..
it all comes down to the amount of ram thats in use…..(maybe)
when i first boot-up i have mcafee, sygate personal firewall, my video card
software, the mouse software, and the volume control running in the system
tray.
when i type control/alt/delete, it shows:
skinmem v0.50 (this is the program that shows how much RAM is availablethat i loaded after booting)
explorer
loadqm (not sure what this is)
systray
4demain (don’t know)
alogserv (don’t know)
dmhkey
and of course win 98se is running.
skinmem then reports that 97.96% of my 128mb ram as being used!!! and 2.16
mb available…
i’ve tried to shut down a program at a time to see if it makes a differance
with the amount of time that the mouse freezes after i right click on the
jpg file and the only one that seems to make a differance is….. mcafee!
after i close mcafee, used RAM decreases to 76.**%
it never did that before
is something going on that’s using all of my RAM?
what do you think?
should i just go and get another 128mbs of RAM?
thanks for any help with this, PackRat!!!
