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In the left pane of the System Information window, click the + sign to expand the
"Software Environment" category.
In the left pane, click to select "Startup Programs"....they will appear in a list
on the right.
Press Ctrl-A on the keyboard, which will highlight everything in the list on the
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"Larry" wrote in message
...
With my Windows 98 Dell Dimension (purchased in 1998), for the several
months I've had this problem with "memory leak" that folks here already
explained to me. It means that after the computer has been on for a day
or so, it starts running low on resources. I was able to live with
that, just turning the computer off more often or restarting.

But now it's getting worse. When I start it up, it's fine With just my
background applications on (DSL connection, Zone alarm, Explorer, etc.)
I have 60 percent of resources free (which in fact is only about seven
percent lower than it's ever been at it's best). But within maybe 12
hours of the computer being on, resources have gotten so low that the
task bar icons lose their appearance (losing their details and color),
and all kinds of freeze-ups start to occur. It's only the last few
weeks that resources would get so low (with as few as seven or so
windows open) that the taskbar icons would lose their appearance and I'd
have to restart to get some usable memory back.

Does this memory leak (if that's what it is), indicate an unfixable loss
of functioning in the core components of the computer? Is there
anything to be done about about this?

Thanks for any advice.
Larry