In Win 98 system resources does not include the 256 Mb of RAM.  It is a special 640 Kb set aside.  You'd have to do a google search to find out how to clear that short of rebooting.

>I'm running Windows 98 SE with 256 RAM memory.  When booting up, System Resources shows as 77% to 80%.  After approximately a half-hour of e-mailing and some Internet surfing, the System Resources drops down to about 50% to 55%.
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>Checking Ctl/Alt/Del, the programs that are alive on startup are:  Explorer, Zlclient, Ccapp, Starter, and Systray.
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>Checking msconfig, the programs that are alive on startup are:  ScanRegistry, SystemTray, ccApp, ZoneLabsClient, EnsoniqMixer, QuickTimeTask, ScriptBlocking, ccEvtMgr, TrueVector, and PhotoLoaderSupervisory. (Unchecking PhotoLoaderSupervisory and then rebooting doesn't remove that program from the Task Bar, but will remove EnsoniqMixer and QuickTimeTask).
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>What can possibly be sucking the System Resources out of the computer and how can I stop it from happening?
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