SillyDog701

[Fulvio]

Since NS7.1/Moz1.4 came out, I have been watching the resources and memory, with almost every application on my HD. Some application release all the resources, others don't. The memory can take more of a beating, to realize that 128MB was the minimum requirement to do one thing, sometimes two. Often, rebooting was necessary. Doubling the memory has helped a lot.
My question is: are the applications hanging on the memory and resources, after being closed, or is Windows the cause, or both.
I have Win98.

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[Mandrake]

It would most likely be Windows, a fresh installation usually fixes any problems, When I used to use 95/98 I would reinstall once every three months to keep everything running in peak condition. You have 128mb of memory? That's plenty to run 9x without a hitch, and 98 only uses about 20mb of memory on it's own. Leaving enough for applications like Netscape and Office.

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[Fulvio]

It would most likely be Windows, a fresh installation usually fixes any problems, When I used to use 95/98 I would reinstall once every three months to keep everything running in peak condition. You have 128mb of memory? That's plenty to run 9x without a hitch, and 98 only uses about 20mb of memory on it's own. Leaving enough for applications like Netscape and Office.

I got 256 now, and it plenty now. I have explorer and systray plus Registry backup, the Antivirus and firewall. They take up about 60% of 128MB. If I ran two or three programs, I was quite near 100% load, and then I had to reboot. Netscape 7.1 is not bad, giving back most of the RAM, but try a music program, and, god forbid AOL9, and it is the end. But 256 MB do the job.
So, most likely it is the way the programs are written, that they don't give back the RAM. This is what I meant. I did not mean that it was necessary to run Windows.

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