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by petrispaz

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Hi,All,
I have a Pentium 3 500 mghz system running Win98SE. I am runnng about 97MB RAM. I guess my video card is about 8MB. Anyway,my system keeps freezing after 30 minutes or so after I turn on my cam,and do other things on my PC at the same time.Is it that I don't have enough RAM,or,do i need to get a faster video card? Thanks in advance for all and any replies.

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by thechas

I believe that you need to do 3 things:

Add RAM, W98 works 'best' with 196MB of RAM.

Get a newer video card.
Speed is not as critical for non-game applications, as having 32MB of RAM.

Cleanup your hard drive.

Run Spybot Search and Destroy to get rid of hidden applications that are eating up resources.

Clean out the C:\Windows\Temp and Temporary Internet Files folders.

If you have IE 6 installed, that may be at the root of the problem.
I have seen W98 have enough problems with IE6 that I no longer install it on W98 PCs.
You can try one of the free memory managers as a work-around.
There are a number of them listed at www.nonags.com

If you do have a memory leak / resource issue, you may have to bite the bullet, and perform a clean re-install of Windows.
Sad to say, but the registry grows over time and can really hamper the operation of your PC.

Chas

by stan

Check your system performance. Right click My Computer and then chose properties. Click the performance tab and check system resource. If it is less than 70% free you need to free up more resources. First check the amount of hard drive space that isfree if it is less that 200 MB you should free up some hard drive space. Go to add/remove programs in control panel and remove programs that you not longer use. Then click start, run and Type: msconfig. Go to the Startup tab. Listed are the program that start automaticly and run in the background of your PC. Click to remove the check from programs you rarely use and the ones the use lots of resources like MS Office. Restart your PC and the run Disk Defragmenter. Also add more memory.

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