Memory usage

[truffeltje]

I've a question, I run a memory utilities who is monitoring my memory usage.
Cachemen is the program I use.
Now is my question, why is the memory only 100 MB at start up(total memory is 256MB), does windows use that much memory?
What can I do to prefent windows of using that much memory because when I open some programs like icq the system is slowing down and finally freezes:-(

Greetz truffeltje

[daveleau]

Sounds like you have some problems with your system if it is freezing on oyu. I would suggest getting rid of as many apps as you can that run at startup. Startup Cop from www.download.com (http://www.download.com) is a great app for this.
Good luck
Dave

[Roy]

Or >Run msconfig >Startup and uncheck things you don't want in the background.

[truffeltje]

Thanx you all, did some unchecks on ms-config at start up en things look better.
I run memturbo now en on start up I have 160 MB memory recoverd.
When I run some apps then its runs stabel on about 110 MB.

Greetz truffeltje

[jmatt]

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