Dave,

There are several memory cleaning products out there for Win98 and ME. I used 98 for years and kept memory relatively available with MemTurbo. Periodically, the program senses that a lot of memory is being held for programs that are not currently open and reassigns that memory to active programs. Try their free demo and see if that helps your problem.

Jim
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Hook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Out of Memory problem with Legacy




Thanks everyone for the suggestions. It looks like the answer is to either
upgrade to XP Pro or get more RAM (if I can afford it) or to frequently
clean up / defrag the disc and/or re-install Windows Me (if I can't afford
to upgrade).


I may look into upgrading my system, but I'll try doing a clean up & defrag
in the meantime (I did a reinstall a few months ago) and see how that works.


Thanks again,
Dave




----- Original Message ----- From: "Henry T. "Pete" Peterson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 11:47 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Out of Memory problem with Legacy


I added memory to an Pentium II 300 mhz machine (very ancient) a year ago
and everything went fine...after boot-up everything runs very smoothe. So
if
needed and and you can't afford a new horse have the old one re-shoed...
Good luck

Henry


-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steve Hallberg Sent: 15 January, 2005 8:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Out of Memory problem with Legacy


> On 1/15/2005 6:16:54 AM (Pacific time), you wrote:

> It is very unlikely that Legacy is your problem, but very likely that
> Windows ME is the problem.  Windows ME is not known for stability and
> is universally acknowledged to be the worst OS that was ever released
> by M$.  And, since it is quite out-of-date as well, I'd suggest that
> updating your OS would be an excellent idea.

This is a simplistic non-answer to the problem.

My wife's machine runs ME and cannot be 'upgraded' to an even bigger
resource hog of an operating system because it doesn't have the horsepower
necessary. We're not going to replace a functioning machine because
Microsoft demands more memory and computing power to run each newer
release.
Nor are we going to spend money we don't have on ridiculously-priced
upgrades.

If the ME machine functioned before but doesn't now, then something's
changed on the machine.

Simple things to do to attempt to fix the reported problem: run disk
cleanup, getting rid of extraneous files on the system; defragment the
disk;
scan for viruses and other malicious software; clean up your background
programs (programs that run at startup for no good reason -- many vendors
believe you simply can't exist without their little goodies running all
the
time and enough of those hiding in the background will consume a good
portion of your available memory).

And so on. Any decent computer-repair guy or gal can walk you through
these
things if you're not comfortable doing them on your own.

--------------
Steve Hallberg


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