Win ME and System Resources

[Jon Lawrance]

I recently upgrade from Win98SE to Win ME and I am experiencing some problems.

1. Are there any updates yet for Win ME?

2. I keep running out of system resources. When I close down applications, it still looses some of the system reources available. Eventually, I need to reboot. Any solutions?

Thanks,

Jon

[cedar2]

Did you upgrade or do a clean install? From experience and what I have read, Me runs much better as a clean install.

[daveleau]

Well, you can get a third party memory manager, that would help. I am not sure if M$ has any updates for ME or not. Try doing the Windows Update and see what you get. Also, how many items are running at startup (how many items are there when you control-alt-delete one time)? I have found that RamBooster is one of the best memory managers for 98SE. It should work well in ME since they are basically the same OS with bugs in different places.

Good luck
Dave

[jansson_markus]

1. Guess are there upgrades since its Microsofts product... http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif Yep, go to the http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com and see for yourself...thank god that "automatic" update works in those pages...

2. The memory is problem. I dont know how to solve it, OTHER than buyin (stealing, borrowing, whatever) program called "Memturbo". It frees memory when needed and is EXCELLENT tool.

You want it boot faster and consume less resources? CLEAN UP those "extras" that are loaded in normal boot. Go to MSConfig / startup and disable EVERYTHING else than "Scanregistry", "System Tray" and "*statemgr" (windows restore which isnt worth a **** but you might still want to keep it). OH, BTW, remember also disable Netbios (if you dont REALLY need it...no, you probably dont) from MSConfig / Static VxDs!!!

Markus

[This message has been edited by jansson_markus (edited 06-07-2001).]

[muno]

How much system resources DO you have?
-M

[Ballastboss]

To get ME stable and resolve MOST of your memmory issuses do a clean install and disable System restore in device manager. Under file system properties hard disk settings, change typical role of this computer too "Network server"

[daveleau]

Afaik, Memturbo only works with 128MB and will not free up more than that. Last time I tried it at home that was the case. i used it at work for a while on a 128MB system and it caused CPU spiking (would jump up from 13 to 100 percent every 3-4 seconds). My use of Memturbo has been bad.

Dave

[BFlurie]

I've said this before -- "Mem-freeing" programs do absolutely nothing. If you'd take the time to use Sysmon and watch what happens as you work, you'd see that Windows already "frees" memory when it needs to, assuming there's enough. Having free memory close to zero is not bad -- it's actually good. Resources are the issue that slow things down.