Memory Usage Problem

Hi,

I have WIN ME with all recent patches applied. I have a memory problem. As
applications are opened, memory usage goes up drastically. I first had 512
Meg installed, so yesterday I removed the old memory and added 2 512 Meg
chips. Same exact problem after doubling the memory. My applications just
suck up the memory. What applications? Norton AV, Zonealarm, Wordperfect,
AIM and AOL Radio, Mozilla and Thunderbird.

For some perspective on this, I use the exact same applications on my other
machine running WinXP and 512 Meg memory with absolutely no problems
whatsoever, so there's definitely a memory manager problem. I tried to
adjust theMaxFileCache setting in System.ini, set it at 512 and the problem
actually got worse (suggested in Q253912).

Any ideas?

Thanks
Alan