i dont understand .... comp freezin n hanging

loopy_lass

he he he... awww that made me chuckle... thanks for cheerin me up flower...

xxxxx

Dark_Forces

hey no problem loopy lass


xxxxx to you to

vultura

I did find something that might help to reduce the low resource error messages on Windows 98 ages ago and applied it to my PC.

Quote: Have you ever wondered why after spending some time working on your computer, that the more programs you open and close, the less available resources you have? You'd think that closing a program would free up any resources it takes up when running right? Wrong.

Windows has a DLL caching mechanism that keeps certain Dynamic Link Libraries (DLL files) loaded to help shorten the time it takes to open programs you use often. While this is a good idea in itself, it is only really useful when you use the same programs over and over and open and close them frequently.

This tip I've found quite some time ago turns off the DLL Caching "feature" and allows the unloading of all program-related DLL files upon closing the program that loaded them. This can and does in fact free up resources used and can also help gain overall stability of the system, especially if the computer is going to be run for long periods of time without restarting.

I've found two variants of this tip, one of which is labeled for Win9x family of the Windows platform (which includes Windows 95/98/98SE/ME), while the other was aimed at Windows XP. Although the Win9x tweak was tested on a XP system and verified to have the same result. So I'll give both here.

Win9x unload DLLs:

Go to Start - Run - type in "REGEDIT" without quotes and press enter. The Registry Editor opens up. Now use the lefthand explorer pane to find this key:
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer" In the Righthand pane, right click in an empty space and choose "New... - String Value" and name it: "AlwaysUnloadDll" (without quotes and capital letters are important). Give this new string a value of 1, close the Registry Editor, and reboot Windows.

WinXP Unload DLLs: Go to Start - Run - type in "REGEDIT" without quotes and press enter. The Registry Editor opens up. Now use the lefthand explorer pane to find this key: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer" Still in the lefthand pane, right click on the Explorer folder and choose "New - KEY". Give it a name of "AlwaysUnloadDLL" (without quotes and capital letters are important). Inside that key change the default string to 1 and close regedit and reboot.

This tweak is perfect for low resource systems. The drawback of using this is a very small slowdown in the initial opening of programs, but this isn't half as bad as it sounds. And the benefit of using this tweak far outweighs the drawback.

Mr_Skint_2

Hey good idea that vultura but with one problem, did we find out if loopy_lass can manage to edit the registry, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756 note the warning under heading, Summary.

loopy_lass

MMmm scares me a bit does that. altering my memory... its scarce as it is... I contacted cruicual support about my screen having an inch wide pretty coloured band at the top when it locks out... they got me to go into something technical on my comp, aloge the lines of .....

If you are running Win95/98/ME, from the Windows Desktop:
1. Click on Start -> Run -> type notepad c:\windows\system.ini -> click OK
2. Locate a line in this file that reads [vcache]
3. Insert 2 new lines after this reading the following:
4. MinFileCache=*****
5. MaxFileCache=*****
6. Also insert the following line in the [****Enh] section:
7. MinSPs=**
8. Save the changes and reboot the system.

You may also require to upgrade to the latest version of the BIOS for your motherboard, this can be downloaded from your manufacturer's web site.
A suggested free diagnostic utility to use to test the functionality of the memory can be downloaded from http://www.memtest.org


done the above changes (not put exact numbers on here as i dont know if there are just for my comp etc...) and it seems to have "cured" the problem, havent been able to run a memory test as comp doesnt like the files, but will look into the above if its different from what ive just done? I dunno is it??????

i reckoned a toffee hammer and some black tape wud suffice, but crucial said nopey dopey... What ive done already with £25 memory & fitting myself, plus after service from crucial has saved me a forturne......

loops x