It's not just 95/98/ME. It's all the sloppily written programs, mostly from
none other than (SURPRISE!) Micro$oft. Many programs cause memory and system
resource leakage due to poor management of the memory used by the programs. The
programs grab memory when they need it (actually they beg for it nicely from
Windows), but often fail to release it when they finish with it. When a program
aborts, it is potentially even worse, because possibly more memory is left in an
unreleased state. So the memory available continues to drop, as do the system
resource pool items which keep track of all this memory.

MemoryZipper (and others) are smart enough to first scan through memory and find
the owner of each memory block that is allocated as used. If a chunk of memory
has no owner, MemoryZipper takes it over and then releases it properly back into
the WIndows pool of available memory. Then MemoryZipper shuffles programs and
data around in memory to make the available memory pool contiguous. Doh! Why
couldn't Windows 95/98/ME do this all by itself? Probably because Micro$oft
didn't want them to look too good compared to NT/2000/XPee.

But, in summary, more disciplined application software making more judicious use
of memory would have made 95/98/ME apparently better. But there is more to the
story as to why Windows is such a shabby insecure and unreliable OS, and the
story goes on and on today with XPee... Ben Myers

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 15:45:15 -0500, "First Last" wrote:

Vin:

If you load and then exit several programs, you'll find that your available
memory and resources will drop. There is a shareware version of SysTweak's
MemoryZipper available that will recover the lost memory and resources.
There are other proggies that will do the same thing -- check on
download.com or tucows.com. It's a chronic issue with WinDoze 95/98/ME.

"vinny33" wrote in message
...
Thanks for all the help you have given me,i now have managed to increase my
systems resources to about 87%

Regards

Vin