your the best anyone I ever met ( smile ) Stop mentioning that Gates guy he is a bozo! My windows 98 second edition will prevail as long as a stubborn women then if I am forced to move on I will drive all this updaters in pchelpers completely and totally mad!!!!!!!!!!!! Pen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed West" <edwest@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 6:29 AM Subject: [pchelpers] Re: memory > > Anyone is here. > The answer to the question you seek my dear is: > You are running Windows 98 (hush Nigel:~ ) > After running some programs & then ending them, the resources they used are > not returned to be used by other programs. > It is as if they are still running & you only have so much resource memory > available to use, kiddo. > So if the ended program doesn't leggo your resources & you start up a new > program you will soon need to reboot to keep from crashing. > Bill Gates did this on purpose so we would have to buy Windows 2000 & then > listen to people telling us to go to Windows XP... > So, as they say, "there you go"> > Anyone. > > > From: "tactilelady" <penwal1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Scott McNay or anyone, Explain to me where the memory comes from when > you > > reboot your pc because it low on memory. When I reboot it goes from 53% to > > 70%. Why dosen't it just stay at 70% all the time? Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://pchelpers.5er.com?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.