Hi Amado,

        I too have a similar problem.  I run Win 98SE, Netscape Navigator 4.08(I
did not want all of the addins that you get with the Communicator package)
and AIM I downloaded separately from AOL.  I have a Pentium 133 with 80M of
ram.  While my problem is not as severe as you describe, it comes close.

        I found a couple of things that helped.  First I started using a program
called "RamBooster".  I went to

http://www.sci.fi/~borg/rambooster/

read everything and downloaded it.  I use 6M for an alarm/trigger setting
and 39M for a target setting.  This helped quite a bit.  But what I think
helped me the most is something I read a month ago on this list.  The
possibility that program combinations similar to Anti-Virus/Cleansweep
Usage Monitor, were causing each other to generate a lot of overhead.  So I
turned off the Usage Monitor.
Between the two actions, I have greatly improved the situation.  And
sometimes I go on the Net for 3-4 hours at a time.  BTW, the RamBooster
audio alarm will make you jump the first few times it goes off.

HTH,
Tom

At 11:51 PM 2/14/2000  Monday, you wrote:

>
>Amado Pino wrote:
>>
>> Hi listers;
>>
>> I have a friend that's having a problem while trying to open a link from
>> Messenger, she claims it just sits there and Communicator won't open.
>> Netscape is her default browser, she's running Win 95 on a pentium 200
>> mhz, 64mb-ram. Any ideas? TIA.
>>
>> Amado

Tom J Kelly II, USN, Ret., FTCM,
Micron P133, 80M, 8.4G

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