At 03:39 PM 5/26/2001 -0700, you wrote: >What confuses me is that if, as others have said, system resources is a set >amount of RAM specifically for that, then the percentage of resources it >takes up should go down as the amount of RAM goes up. You're thinking about "extended" memory, which is what the RAM you can plug into the motherboard is. System resources refers to the use of "conventional" memory, which is hard soldered to the motherboard and is never more than 1024k under Win9x because of the necessity of retaining reverse compatibility with legacy operating systems such as DOS. You can think of it as the first meg of memory if you want to. The point is that the conventional memory area is limited to 1024k no matter how much extended memory ("RAM") you plug in. And since the so-called "system resouces" only use (or reside in) conventional memory, you can add RAM until you break your pocketbook and it still will not increase the space available to "system resources". In reality, system resources only have part of conventional memory available to them, but that's another story. If this messes your mind up too much, switch to NT or 2000- these OS's treat all of the memory in a machine as one chunk and the limitations imposed by DOS/Win9x and "system resources" go away entirely. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rick Lindstrom <[log in to unmask]> Tallahassee, FL. USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The NOSPIN Group provides a monthly newsletter with great tips, information and ideas: NOSPIN-L, The NOSPIN Magazine Visit our web site to signup: http://freepctech.com