Buying more RAM won't help. Many of us thought that memory (RAM) and System Resources were somehow the same thing or at least close kin. I personally bought into the "more RAM will fix it" sales pitch, but I was misinformed. The best explanation Ihave found to the disappearing resource question is at http://www.pcnineoneone.com/howto/resources1.html (be sure there are no spaces in the URL if you cut and paste). You will find an explanation of types of resources, limitations (size) and leaks(the reason you have to reboot your computer to regain lost resource space).
Most often, you can go to Start, Run, "msconfig", "startup" and discover all the programs that are activated on startup. You probably don't realize they are running,but they eat up resources. Selectively disable the ones you don't need running in the background, and you can lessen resource drain. You will also find that some programs do not "free up" system resources which they had "reserved" on startup, whenthey close. For that reason, you will need to either go to the software's home site and see if there are some patches or reboot after using these resource hogs.
Good luck!
OJ
