Jim Meagher wrote:

> Susan,
>
> ....cut....... When you close applications, they should release
> the resources and return them to the "pool" for use by other apps --
> thereby increasing the percentage of free resources.
>
> That is the way it SHOULD work.  Unfortunately, there are many poorly
> developed programs that either hog unneeded resources -- or worse -- do
> not release them when the app closes.

There's a neat little utility called Ram Charge that takes care of this very
thing. It defrags the RAM and manages it so it's all there when it is supposed
to be, works with 95, 98, NT.

HTH,

Jose

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