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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? -- To email, erase "forgetit" |
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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) -- Regards, Anthony Giorgianni The return address for this post is fictitious. Please reply by posting back to the newsgroup. "Adam" wrote in message ... 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" |
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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). 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. -- Tim Slattery MS MVP(DTS) |
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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.) -- 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 ... | 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" |
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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. -- To email, erase "forgetit" |
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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" |
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Thanks for the replies
Better than me.
-- 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 ... | 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" |
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