System resources/memory low

[lostattimes]

Hi,

Can anyone help?-If I leave my computer on for about 5 hours or so, the resources drop to about 44%, and if i try to do anything it freezes.Also I noticed that on the close program list(ctrl+alt+del) it normally says Acrord32(?) not responding. Any help? Thanks in advance!



(sometimes i dont get computers :( )

[renegade600]

tell more about your computer, cpu, ram, harddrive size/space available. What do you use your computer for, do you do alot of graphic work or gaming? or Microsoft Office?

It is common for the percentage to drop the longer the computer is on. Some things you can try is to clear space on the harddrive, turn off any startup items that you do not need, clean your registry, defrag, and others

[Murray S.]

Howdy:

“System Resources” are among the most misunderstood elements of Win95, Win98, and Win ME.
System Resources are of two kinds: User Resources, and GDI (Graphic Device Interface) Resources.The Win9x Core consists of User Resources, GDI Resources, and the Kernel.

The User component manages input from the keyboard, mouse, and other input devices and output to the user interface (windows, icons, menus, and so on). It also manages interaction with the sound driver, timer, and communications ports. Windows 98 uses an asynchronous input model for all input to the system and applications. As the various input devices generate interrupts, the interrupt handler converts these interrupts to messages and sends the messages to a raw input thread area, which in turn passes each message to the appropriate message queue. Although each Win32-based thread can have its own message queue, all Win16-based applications share a common one.

User Resources are limited to a fixed 64 KB. You cannot increase this.

The Graphics Device Interface (GDI) is the graphical system that manages what appears on the screen. It also provides graphics support for printers and other output devices. It draws graphic primitives, manipulates bitmaps, and interacts with device-independent graphics drivers, including those for display and printer output device drivers.

GDI Resources are limited to a fixed 64 KB. You cannot increase this.

Note that the 64 KB limitation on User and GDI Resources does not exist in Windows NT/2000 (which, however, may not be able to run some of the particular programs causing the “Resources drain” in Windows 95/98/ME).

System Resources do not always return to their full value after exiting all programs are that a particular program sometimes will not free Resources upon exit, as it is supposed to do, perhaps because it was badly written.

Be careful about loading several of these programs at once, and completely close any program you are not still using. These Resources are finite. The “big three” types of programs that are Resource guzzlers are:

Programs with heavy graphics demands
Multimedia programs
Web browsers and, to a slightly lesser degree, any Internet-based program
You cannot effectively throw RAM at System Resources, because the size of the two categories of Resources is limited to a specific amount. Whether you have 16 MB, 128 MB, or 1,024 MB of RAM will not affect this.

If System Resources drop to the point where your system is freezing, the onlt real cure is to re-boot !!

Murray

[joaoh]

i use fast defrag pro. it stands as tray and it gets a mere 2% in the resources which is very good compared to those "speed up my pc" that gets almost 18%. there is cacheman too, but it´s a bit heavier than fast defrg. it makes a good cache management. both utilities prevent freezing by freeing ram whenever needed or customized by user. but as murray s. said before there are limitis and if you use many graphics and multimedia everytime rhe ram engine cleans you might be in trouble...



but that´s just a hint ;)