max system resources?

[nutz4drumz]

ok at the risk of really showing you guys how dumb i am ive just got to know why whit a 1gig p3 and 512mg of ram with win me i can only get 78% free resources. is there a secret to having maximum resources free. i dont mind waiting for a program to open i just want my machine to be ready to provide maximum horsepower to the proggies i am using at the time. what is the optimum setup for having max memory resources available at all times?

[Votan]

The resources have nothing to do with how much RAM you have. These are two chunks of 64 K each outside the RAM space used to keep track of loaded applications and graphics.

To maximize your resource at boot time go to msconfig and uncheck the applications you are not using.

By the way, there is no dumb question. Drain this mental virus out of your brain.

[tha 4NiK8R]

If you want to get decent performance out of your machine out Win 2k Pro or XP Pro on it. WinME = bad.

[nutz4drumz]

thanx votan! just how much can i uncheck and still boot properly? i want my mcafee online antivirus running and my firewall (zonealarm) can task monitor, load power profile, scheduling agent, and still image monitor be shut off?

[Votan]

I do not know what applications you are running, but you need to keep these three item:

SystemTray ScanRegistry *stateMgr

I understand you are running Zonealarm. You can load it just before you connect to the internet, or load it at boot time. In that case you need to keep these three items:

ZoneAlarm TrueVector Minilog

If MicrosoftIntelliTypePro is loaded keep it. It configures you keyboard. In that case you might want to keep LoadPowerProfile if you put your machine on standby, or to hybernate. The power profile is loaded twice by default. You can remove the second one. I removed it for more than a year now without any problem; I desabled hybernate but I put the machine on standby quite often.

These are the bare bone minimum you need to have installed. If you have many other items, uncheck them and see how your system works. You can check them back, or install them manually as needed. All depends on your system hardware and software. Provide a list of what you have we may be able to make a better guess.

[Platypus]

[quote]Originally posted by nutz4drumz:
<strong>i can only get 78% free resources.
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This is not too bad a figure, my system usually runs about 70% unless I shut down some of the utilities in the Notification Area.

78% free doesn't mean the system is using 22% of the resources. It means that the lowest of the several resource heaps maintained by Windows is down to 78% of its capacity level.

Many of the resources that used to have to use the 64K GDI and USER heaps in Win 3.x now use the 32 bit heap and are allocated dynamically, limited only by available memory. The remaining resources that still use a single 64K segment have correspondingly more room, so Win9X/ME doesn't run out of resources so soon.

But it does run out, as well as having memory management problems, increasing in severity as physical memory rises further above 512M. So as others have said, if you really need more than 512M for applications, go for XP or 2000.