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
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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
>
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