I would just like to add to Tom's suggestion. I have a 233/64 ram/6G hd and have used "RamBooster" for sometime with great sucess (no problems) and highly reccomend it to increase any computers preformance. Tom Tucker [log in to unmask] Tom Kelly II wrote: > 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 > > Do you want to signoff PCSOFT or just change to > Digest mode - visit our web site: > http://nospin.com/pc/pcsoft.html Do you want to signoff PCSOFT or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://nospin.com/pc/pcsoft.html