jods

I have WIN98, 384MB RAM, Pentium II, 450mhz processor, Primary 30GB and secondary 8GB (FAT32) disks.

Primary disk has >20GB Free, Secondary has >7.8GB Free.

The Flaming thing just keeps hanging !!! System resources right now are at 57% - I am advised that this needs to be nearer 85%

I run MSCONFIG and remove items (Yahoo Pager, LoadQM, ScanReg, Systemtray, AdaptecDirectCD and a few others)

Reboot and things improve a little ( up to 87% at one stage) but memory just seems to leak away. >??

I run SFC (From Start, Run) and it suggests user.exe may be corrupted but on reading the Microsoft information about this particular message I am unsure if this is an ideal solution.



So - Question is

Have you had the same problem ?
What did you do to fix it ?

Cheers

Jods

David_Wallis

easy. forget 98 and stop trying to use 6yr old OS's

95 is quicker than 98 depends what you want from it tho.

Anything that sits in the system tray is a no no or resource killer in my book..

check the hklm\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run
runservices
runonce

reg keys and see whats lurking.. may not have currentversion key on 98, its been a while..

David

ChrisB

A large number of fonts installed with sap system resouces.

Fig

I must be missing something obvious here

cactus jim

i'd agree with the previous comments, if you are trying to use a PC for today's applications, i.e music, burning, video, movies etc, then win 98 is an absolute dog, as are pII processors. I dont think it matters how much memory you have if the OS and processor werent designed to support the applications you are running.

my advice is to kick the computer into touch, its possibly had it life now and get XP.

you can pick up a newish P4 with at least 512MB for a couple o hundred quid that will scream past a win98 machine.

Suresh

I have Win98 on my desktop at home and it is fine for the simple things in life, provided you free-up the memory now and then using a utility such as "maxmem", which you can get free from here :

http://www.analogx.com/contents/down...tem/maxmem.htm


Suresh

bioforger

iTrader: (1)

Ah win98se and Resource/Ram woes When I use to run 98, I had memturbo, which worked well at freeing up/defragging RAM. Put your swap file on a seperate partition and determine the size of it yourself as well. Look up on the net for the best minimum and maximum settings for this, based on your RAM. I use to be able to get 2+ weeks of uptime in 98se after many weeks of tweaking You will always battle against low resources though, you cant do much about that.

Save yourself all that hassle and upgrade to Win2k or XP.