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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. |
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System Resources At 0% On Windows 98
"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) |
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System Resources At 0% On Windows 98
"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) |
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System Resources At 0% On Windows 98
"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." |
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System Resources At 0% On Windows 98
"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." |
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