Do you suffer any further degradation after running apps? How low does
it get then? I believe them when they say it is OK to be low.
Nevertheless, in Resource Meter, System is always the lower of USER &
GDI. Here are my figures directly after boot, & right now, having been
on/off the NET...
System: 80%; User: 80%; GDI: 92%
System: 68%; User: 68%; GDI: 80%
GDI has more to do with the video display/adapter, & mine improved by
10% or so by switching to a smaller monitor, (not that I did so on
purpose). If USER is the lower, it is more likely it is something left
in your startup group doing it. (I have a ton of McAfee & Compaq in
mine, yet
those are my figures.)
I'm not sure, but can it be something in Autoexec.bat or Config.sys can
do it? Perhaps, "START button, Run, SysEdit", & post those two files.
For investigative purposes...
(1) WinTop will show as many tasks running as "START, Run, MSInfo32,
Software Environment, Running Tasks", which is twice as many as
Ctrl-Alt-Del. Microsoft's WinTop works in Win98, though written for
Win95. It shows individual CPU & RAM usage figures & updates it's
display every 2 seconds. Get WinTop from
http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/d.../w95kerneltoy/
Download it into a folder of it's own. It's a single executable called
"W95KRNLTOYS.EXE". When you click it, it will unzip and reveal many
applications. All of them are a danger to Win98, except WinTop; delete
them. You will be left with:
W95KRNLTOYS.EXE
WINTOP.INF
WINTOP.TXT
WINTOP.VXD
WINTOP.EXE
You R-Clk WINTOP.INF & select "Install". Click OK to the requestor
stating that a disk is required. Another requestor will appear & allow
you to locate the folder that has the files listed above. WinTop.exe
will be copied to C:\Windows. You may go there, R-Clk it, point to "Send
To" & create a shortcut on the Desktop. Click it to execute. Otherwise,
"START, Run, WinTop".
Yikes, what a RAM hog Explorer is-- & NetZero too! They are eating this
machine alive!
Explorer: 18 threads.
Code Data
Allocated: 15,624K 7,932K
In memory: 5,888K 6,688K
In use 3,522K 3,552K
NetZero: 37 threads.
Code Data
Allocated: 7,624K 16,348K
In memory: 3,272K 9,252K
In use 2,488K 8,252K
NetZero: 3 more threads (icon in tray).
Code Data
Allocated: 3,248K 4,012K
In memory: 876K 1,164K
In use 440K 696K
(2) Do you have "System Monitor" in START... System Tools? If not, get
it from "START, Settings, Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Windows
Setup tab, D-Clk System Tools, check System Monitor, OK, Apply, OK". May
as well take "Resource Meter", too. Now, go through the menus and at
least have it display
(a) Swap file in use.
(b) Swap file size.
(c) Swappable memory.
(d) Unused physical memory.
(e) Allocated memory.
(f) Disk cache size.
(g) Locked memory
(h) Other memory
(i) Kernel Processor Usage
(j) Kernel Threads
Hopefully, by the time you have it set up and commence to asking
questions, someone will be around who can answer them.
--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR
"Bob Johnson" wrote in message
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| Bob
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