System Resources At 0% On Windows 98

My Computer Resources Drop All The Way To 0% & Either Freezes Or Goes To A
Blue Screen & I Only Have Like 4 to 5 Windows Or Less. Also No Matter What
Program I Open It always Shows A Message That Say That The Program Has
Performed An Illegal Search & Will Shut Down Sometimes It Happens One After
The Other This Either Freezes My Computer Or Sends me To A Blue Screen, Whats
Wrong? What Could I Do To Fix It,? Without Getting An Upgrade. For Both Of
Those Problems I Either Restart The Computer Or I have To Press & Hold the
Power Button To Shut Down.

"Shaolin" u25214@uwe wrote in message news:64a42db088c10@uwe...

My Computer Resources Drop All The Way To 0% & Either Freezes Or Goes To A
Blue Screen & I Only Have Like 4 to 5 Windows Or Less. Also No Matter What
Program I Open It always Shows A Message That Say That The Program Has
Performed An Illegal Search & Will Shut Down Sometimes It Happens One
After
The Other This Either Freezes My Computer Or Sends me To A Blue Screen,
Whats
Wrong? What Could I Do To Fix It,? Without Getting An Upgrade.

Just reinstal the Win98 Operating System from your
system CD as advised by
http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/w98_restore.html

Before you reinstal you should probably reformat
your C:\ to ensure you have no viruses (and
A:SYS C:
from a known uncontaminated boot floppy.)

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

"Shaolin" u25214@uwe wrote in message news:64a42db088c10@uwe...

My Computer Resources Drop All The Way To 0% & Either Freezes Or Goes To A
Blue Screen & I Only Have Like 4 to 5 Windows Or Less. Also No Matter What
Program I Open It always Shows A Message That Say That The Program Has
Performed An Illegal Search & Will Shut Down Sometimes It Happens One
After
The Other This Either Freezes My Computer Or Sends me To A Blue Screen,
Whats
Wrong? What Could I Do To Fix It,? Without Getting An Upgrade.

Just reinstal the Win98 Operating System from your
system CD as advised by
http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/w98_restore.html

Before you reinstal you should probably reformat
your C:\ to ensure you have no viruses (and
A:SYS C:
from a known uncontaminated boot floppy.)

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

"Shaolin" u25214@uwe wrote:

My Computer Resources Drop All The Way To 0% & Either Freezes Or Goes To A
Blue Screen & I Only Have Like 4 to 5 Windows Or Less. Also No Matter What
Program I Open It always Shows A Message That Say That The Program Has
Performed An Illegal Search & Will Shut Down Sometimes It Happens One After
The Other This Either Freezes My Computer Or Sends me To A Blue Screen, Whats
Wrong? What Could I Do To Fix It,? Without Getting An Upgrade. For Both Of
Those Problems I Either Restart The Computer Or I have To Press & Hold the
Power Button To Shut Down.

http://www.onlinehelp.bc.ca/tips.htm#resources
http://www.aumha.org/win4/a/resource.htm

System Resources refers to two 64K blocks of memory that Windows
allocates to programs for tracking purposes. These blocks are called
User Resources and GDI Resources respectively and Windows reports
whichever has the least available free space as the value for "Free
System Resources".

The value of Free System Resources should not be a concern unless and
until you start getting "System Resources are getting low" type
warning messages, which generally happens at about the 10% level. In
test circumstances it has been shown possible for a computer to
operate at full performance with System Resources showing zero percent
free.

System Resources are totally unrelated to the amount of RAM installed
in your computer and adding more RAM will not affect the System
Resources (unless you start running more applications because you have
more RAM).

System Resource usage is determined by the number and type of
applications that you have running on the computer. Certain types of
applications have been shown to be especially demanding in terms of
System Resource usage:
- "Eye and Ear Candy" such as Active Desktop View As Web Page,
sound effect schemes, animated mouse cursors and desktop icons, and
fancy screen savers.
- Web browsers, as each open browser window requires additional
resources.
- Multimedia applications of all types
- System monitoring utilities such as Norton SystemWorks.

If you are using any applications that have the ability to "preview
fonts in fonts list" such as Office 2000 then all of the installed
fonts will be loaded into GDI resources when the application is
launched. This will result in the usage of approximately 1% of GDI
resources for each 64 fonts that are installed. If no such
applications are in use, or if the "preview fonts in fonts list" is
turned off then resources will only be consumed by those fonts that
have actually been used by windows or by an application.

If you are running any 16 bit applications (Windows 3.x) then Windows
95/98/Me will treat the System Resources allocated to all of these
applications as one block and will not release any of them for reuse
unless and until all of the open 16 bit applications have been closed.

Also, when an application is loaded it is quite common that it will
also require some additional Windows components to be loaded as well.
However, when that application is closed Windows will, by design,
retain the Windows components because they are likely to be needed
again. Therefore the resources initially allocated when an
application is opened will not all be released when that application
is closed. Most, but not all.


With regard to the "illegal operation" error messages the next time
one of these happens click on the "Details" button on the error
message window to bring up the Detailed Error Message. Copy the first
part of the Detailed Error Message, up to the word Registers, and post
that information back here.

With regard to the Blue Screen error messages when these happen please
make note of the error message displayed and post that information
back here.

That may allow us to help you to identify the underlying cause of your
errors.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca
Syberfix Remote Computer Repair

"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference
has never been in bed with a mosquito."

"Shaolin" u25214@uwe wrote:

My Computer Resources Drop All The Way To 0% & Either Freezes Or Goes To A
Blue Screen & I Only Have Like 4 to 5 Windows Or Less. Also No Matter What
Program I Open It always Shows A Message That Say That The Program Has
Performed An Illegal Search & Will Shut Down Sometimes It Happens One After
The Other This Either Freezes My Computer Or Sends me To A Blue Screen, Whats
Wrong? What Could I Do To Fix It,? Without Getting An Upgrade. For Both Of
Those Problems I Either Restart The Computer Or I have To Press & Hold the
Power Button To Shut Down.

http://www.onlinehelp.bc.ca/tips.htm#resources
http://www.aumha.org/win4/a/resource.htm

System Resources refers to two 64K blocks of memory that Windows
allocates to programs for tracking purposes. These blocks are called
User Resources and GDI Resources respectively and Windows reports
whichever has the least available free space as the value for "Free
System Resources".

The value of Free System Resources should not be a concern unless and
until you start getting "System Resources are getting low" type
warning messages, which generally happens at about the 10% level. In
test circumstances it has been shown possible for a computer to
operate at full performance with System Resources showing zero percent
free.

System Resources are totally unrelated to the amount of RAM installed
in your computer and adding more RAM will not affect the System
Resources (unless you start running more applications because you have
more RAM).

System Resource usage is determined by the number and type of
applications that you have running on the computer. Certain types of
applications have been shown to be especially demanding in terms of
System Resource usage:
- "Eye and Ear Candy" such as Active Desktop View As Web Page,
sound effect schemes, animated mouse cursors and desktop icons, and
fancy screen savers.
- Web browsers, as each open browser window requires additional
resources.
- Multimedia applications of all types
- System monitoring utilities such as Norton SystemWorks.

If you are using any applications that have the ability to "preview
fonts in fonts list" such as Office 2000 then all of the installed
fonts will be loaded into GDI resources when the application is
launched. This will result in the usage of approximately 1% of GDI
resources for each 64 fonts that are installed. If no such
applications are in use, or if the "preview fonts in fonts list" is
turned off then resources will only be consumed by those fonts that
have actually been used by windows or by an application.

If you are running any 16 bit applications (Windows 3.x) then Windows
95/98/Me will treat the System Resources allocated to all of these
applications as one block and will not release any of them for reuse
unless and until all of the open 16 bit applications have been closed.

Also, when an application is loaded it is quite common that it will
also require some additional Windows components to be loaded as well.
However, when that application is closed Windows will, by design,
retain the Windows components because they are likely to be needed
again. Therefore the resources initially allocated when an
application is opened will not all be released when that application
is closed. Most, but not all.


With regard to the "illegal operation" error messages the next time
one of these happens click on the "Details" button on the error
message window to bring up the Detailed Error Message. Copy the first
part of the Detailed Error Message, up to the word Registers, and post
that information back here.

With regard to the Blue Screen error messages when these happen please
make note of the error message displayed and post that information
back here.

That may allow us to help you to identify the underlying cause of your
errors.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca
Syberfix Remote Computer Repair

"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference
has never been in bed with a mosquito."