"Buffalo" wrote in
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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.