System resources refers to a fixed amount of memory that doesn't change no
matter how much RAM you put in your machine.  With 196 Mb you have plenty of
RAM.  You could free up resources by using ctrl/alt/del to see what you have
running at startup. Highlight everything that's running one by one and click
end task.  With some you may have to wait for another dialog box to pop up
with another end task button.  Turn off everything except "Explorer" and
"systray".  Run the resource meter and see if that makes a difference.  You
could also save some resources by not running the resource meter, which
itself uses resources. If you have Win 98, go to start/run, type in
"msconfig" without the quotes, hit enter, then go to the startup tab.
Scroll down and uncheck the boxes of the stuff you don't want to run at
startup except for "explorer" and "systray". Click apply and OK, then click
Yes when it asks you if you want to restart now.  When Windows is running,
use ctrl/alt/del to see if you did kill everything.  Some programs can
launch themselves at startup from elsewhere in the registry, so killing them
this way is not always 100% effective.  If you were successful, use your
resource meter one more time to see if there is a significant difference.
If you have Win 95 you either need to edit your win.ini file in Notepad
(i.e. you can put a semi-colon in front of each line of code that starts a
program under "Run".  Safest and best way in both Win 95/98 to kill stuff is
go to this URL:  www.pcmag.com/utilities.  Download "Startup Cop".  It's
free, and it will stop programs from loading at startup no matter where they
launch from.  Even better, it allows you to remove the line from startup.
I've been using it since it was released, and I have Win 98.  You cannot
increase your system resources, you can only try to keep them from being
clogged up.






On 12 Jun 2001, at 11:34, Marv Trott wrote:

> I  have been monitoring the Resources with the MS Resource meter because
> the computer reaction time often is slow. When this happens that there is
> only 15-20% of the resources available although the only program I am
> running is Eudora Pro e-mail. How can I increase these resources?
>
>

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