thanatoid wrote:
"Buffalo" wrote in
:

Perhaps one of the Win98 Gurus will have an explanation.

Most of them are not speaking to me since I use 98SE LITE.
Satan's spawn!

Did you have FireFox when you only had 256MB?

No, I only installed it because some stupid eBay box wasn't
showing up in Opera (I still think Opera is better, I HATE the
FF cache system with no extensions - although it does save FLV's
just as nicely as Opera). But the same thing was happening when
I just used Opera.

I guess now that I have 1GB of RAM, an ADSL connection and a
2GHz CPU I have been forgetting about my favorite browser,
OffByOne, which has NO cache and takes up virtually no
resources. My bad.

OTOH, I have been forced to use Opera or FF because I have been
forced to access sites which use Java, Flash, etc. Time to put a
stop to that. I wish eBay worked in OB1.

SNIP

While working offline, turn your anti-virus off.

I ONLY ever do on-demand scans of the directory where I've dl'd
stuff which could be potentially harmful. NOTHING related to the
AV (ESET NOD32) is running otherwise. Not even the Kernel or
control center.

(Process
of elimination) Does your anti-virus automatically check
for updates? That could be using system resources also???
Just guessing.

No, I don't let my computer do ANYTHING automatically.

SNIP

If I hear of a program that tracks the use of system
resources, I will post back. (use and which program uses
them)

I Googled some more yesterday and found something interesting.
While there appears to be NO way of freeing up the stupid 64KB
of sys resources allocation, there is a registry entry which MAY
help, although it has to do with unloading DLL's - but it was
mentioned in a sys resources thread somewhere. I haven't gotten
around to putting it in yet. FYI, it's:

Use Regedit to edit:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\exp
lorer
Add the DWORD value named: AlwaysUnloadDLL and set it to 1

It seems to be fairly useless for 2000 and up but some in the
thread said it's good in 9x.

But yesterday I did OK. It's really not a big deal, just a
little annoying, and it doesn't happen ALL the time.

Thanks again for your help.
t.

I found this : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300059

Perhaps doing the troubleshooting mentioned in the middle of the paragraph
below may give some insight.
I couldn't find much else.


"How to Use the System Resource Meter Tool
You can use the System Resource Meter tool by using either of the following
methods:
a.. Click Start, click Run, type: rsrcmtr.exe, and then click OK.
a.. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Accessories, point to System
Tools, and then click Resource Meter.
When you run the System Resource Meter tool, an icon is placed in the system
tray. You can double-click the icon to open a window that displays the
percentage of free resources for the system, user, and GDI resources. Record
the amount of available system resources that you have before you start a
program, and then record the amount of available resources while you are
running the program. Then, record the amount of the available resources
after you close the program. If you open a program and it consumes system
resources that change the color of your system tray icon to yellow or red,
the program is consuming a high percentage of your system resources. You can
attempt to run your computer in a clean-boot operation, run the System
Resource Meter tool, and then run that particular program to determine if it
is that program or if it is a combination of programs running on your
computer that create this problem.

For additional information about how to clean boot your computer, click the
article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
267288 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/267288/EN-US/ ) How to Perform a
Clean Boot in Windows Millennium Edition
192926 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/192926/EN-US/ ) How to Perform
Clean-Boot Troubleshooting for Windows 98 "