Help with resources

Win98, 256mb RAM
Is there any difference in the amount of resources used when shortcuts
are placed in the taskbar rather than on the desktop. I have 17
shortcuts on my taskbar and have very few applications open on start up
(antivirus-AVG, zonealarm, cable modem, touchpad). However, when I open
my browser (maxthon), email client (thunderbird) and winamp, I'm down to
69% resources left. Naively, I would think that I should have more
resources available. Am I doing something wrong?

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I have four giant, half-screen-wide toolbars, including the taskbar, about
150-200 icons large and small on all of them, dozens of apps going in the
background and foreground (including all the operating system stuff,
Weatherbug, Yankee Clipper, TitleTime, Webshots calendar, Stickies,
Clipomatic, Runit program launcher, Quick Folders, a dialup online time
tracker, GoBack tray icon, touchpad, AVG anti-virus AND I'm online AND IE6,
OE an MS Paint are open ... and I have 19 percent system and user resources
still left on my Gateway laptop Win98se, 600 Pent III, 160 RAM (Ram and
resources are different). And everything is chugging along nicely. You have
69 percent system and user resources free? I dream of the day I will have
anything near that. Unless you run dangerously low, use your resources.
That's why you have them :O)


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"Adam" wrote in message
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Win98, 256mb RAM
Is there any difference in the amount of resources used when shortcuts
are placed in the taskbar rather than on the desktop. I have 17
shortcuts on my taskbar and have very few applications open on start up
(antivirus-AVG, zonealarm, cable modem, touchpad). However, when I open
my browser (maxthon), email client (thunderbird) and winamp, I'm down to
69% resources left. Naively, I would think that I should have more
resources available. Am I doing something wrong?

--
To email, erase "forgetit"

Adam wrote:

Win98, 256mb RAM
Is there any difference in the amount of resources used when shortcuts
are placed in the taskbar rather than on the desktop. I have 17
shortcuts on my taskbar and have very few applications open on start up
(antivirus-AVG, zonealarm, cable modem, touchpad).

Are they really shortcuts? The icons in the system tray - the
depressed-looking area on the right end of the taskbar - aren't
shortcuts, but rather indicators of programs that are currently
running in your computer. Each of them is using some amount of
"resources".

However, when I open
my browser (maxthon), email client (thunderbird) and winamp, I'm down to
69% resources left. Naively, I would think that I should have more
resources available. Am I doing something wrong?

Pretty surely not. 69% is perfectly reasonable. Especially if all
those "shortcuts" are really programs in the tray.

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Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)

Shortcuts in the QuickLaunch bar are using zeroish resources, until you
click one. Buttons on the Taskbar are running programs & do use
resources. Buttons in the Tray (where clock resides) can also indicate
resource usage, as those generally indicate a program was loaded.

But I think you are fine with 69%, after opening those three apps. (Mine
is User 50%; GDI 65% right now. At boot it was... 80's & 90's, I think.)


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"Adam" wrote in message
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| Win98, 256mb RAM
| Is there any difference in the amount of resources used when shortcuts
| are placed in the taskbar rather than on the desktop. I have 17
| shortcuts on my taskbar and have very few applications open on start
up
| (antivirus-AVG, zonealarm, cable modem, touchpad). However, when I
open
| my browser (maxthon), email client (thunderbird) and winamp, I'm down
to
| 69% resources left. Naively, I would think that I should have more
| resources available. Am I doing something wrong?
|
| --
| To email, erase "forgetit"

Tim Slattery wrote:

Adam wrote:



Win98, 256mb RAM
Is there any difference in the amount of resources used when shortcuts
are placed in the taskbar rather than on the desktop. I have 17
shortcuts on my taskbar and have very few applications open on start up
(antivirus-AVG, zonealarm, cable modem, touchpad).



Are they really shortcuts? The icons in the system tray - the
depressed-looking area on the right end of the taskbar - aren't
shortcuts, but rather indicators of programs that are currently
running in your computer. Each of them is using some amount of
"resources".



However, when I open
my browser (maxthon), email client (thunderbird) and winamp, I'm down to
69% resources left. Naively, I would think that I should have more
resources available. Am I doing something wrong?



Pretty surely not. 69% is perfectly reasonable. Especially if all
those "shortcuts" are really programs in the tray.



I may have been misleading with my description of what was in my
Taskbar. they are in the bar at the bottom. They are not in the
systray. Systray contains only AVG and Zonealarm. The shortcut icons
are to the left. In the middle are the open programs: winamp,
thunderbird and maxthon. Hope this clarifies what going on.

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Adam wrote:

Win98, 256mb RAM
Is there any difference in the amount of resources used when shortcuts
are placed in the taskbar rather than on the desktop. I have 17
shortcuts on my taskbar and have very few applications open on start
up (antivirus-AVG, zonealarm, cable modem, touchpad). However, when I
open my browser (maxthon), email client (thunderbird) and winamp, I'm
down to 69% resources left. Naively, I would think that I should have
more resources available. Am I doing something wrong?

Looks as though I'm doing fine, eh?

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To email, erase "forgetit"

Better than me.

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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"Adam" wrote in message
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| Adam wrote:
|
| Win98, 256mb RAM
| Is there any difference in the amount of resources used when
shortcuts
| are placed in the taskbar rather than on the desktop. I have 17
| shortcuts on my taskbar and have very few applications open on start
| up (antivirus-AVG, zonealarm, cable modem, touchpad). However, when
I
| open my browser (maxthon), email client (thunderbird) and winamp,
I'm
| down to 69% resources left. Naively, I would think that I should
have
| more resources available. Am I doing something wrong?
|
| Looks as though I'm doing fine, eh?
|
| --
| To email, erase "forgetit"