From: "Don Kendrew" :Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 9:53 PM
Subject: [PCSOFT] System Slow Down


> I should have included a few more details; In fact that's exactly what I
> suggested he do, and he responded that his HDD was only 30% full with the
> downloads, and that he had run Scandisk and Defrag to no avail.
>
> He also stated that when he checked Windows resources in System Properties
> it reports 75% free at start up, but when it slows down it reports less
> than 25% free resources.
>
> While I do know that System Resources  is not an indicator of free RAM, he
> does have 128 Mb of RAM.
>

Don,

It sounds like your friend has programs that are leaking his resources until
his computer is running very slowly.  He is lucky it doesn't just crash.
Have him check out the following pages from Fred Langa on how to stop his
resource leaks.  There are 3 articles that should help him.  They can be
found here:
http://www.winmag.com/columns/explorer/2000/13.htm

Mary Wolden

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