-=PCTechTalk=- System resources hot

Memory leaks in Win98SE... you can't do anything except reboot.  It is a
"flaw" in the software, I believe because Windows 98SE runs on top of
MS-DOS.  MS-DOS is still the true operating system and Windows is the
GUI, graphical users interface.  Before Windows when we were all running
MS-DOS or something else like CPM, there were some GUIs.  Windows NT was
the first Windows version that did not use DOS.  It was an operating
system that had the GUI built in.  Windows 2000 and Windows XP followed. 
Prior to 98SE and Me have DOS running also.  There are various programs
that claim to free the leaked memory.  Many of these just write the
memory to a swap file on the hard drive.  This may seem like a solution,
but you sure lose when the CPU has to look for and then get memory  from
the hard drive.  Also remember that there is a finite amount of system
resources that Windows uses.  It is unrelated to the actual amount of RAM
and the unrelated to the size of the swap file.  another cause of memory
leaks is that programs are not written correctly to "give back" the
memory it has used when the program in finished.  I believe this can
happen with the non DOS based Windows too.
Dave
      
From: Foxhillers@xxxxxxx
Date: Sat, - 25 Oct 2003 20:00:19 EDT
System resources hot 
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- to stop leaks

Hiya all
WIN98se, Athlon 600, 512 megs RAM
looses/leaks system resources

What's your remedy/recommendation?

Thanks

MJH
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