No matter what amount of memory you have, in the DOS base Windows called Windows 95, 98 and ME, the resource pools are non-expandable islands of 64 thousand bytes.
Microsoft in spite of claims to continue support for this OS has no cure or upcoming fix to this issue. So its left to the remaining users of these old OSes to read about the issue and then do what they can to get by.
For memory, read the MEMORY article at http://www.aumha.org/articles.htm
For getting by, read from same site the Optimizing Windows article.
In closing, continued security issues make me write that you should not use IE for all browsing, try Firebird, Mozilla or anything else. And certainly never enable the PREVIEW in any version of Outlook. If you open unsolicited email, then all forum members watch as your go ____?
Bob
If I open more than 3 or 4 Browsers(I.E 6 SP1) - sometimes the menu disappears along with the tool menu (right click mouse) - causes slow downs - sometimes the page wont even load. This has only started recently - before it was fine. Ive got 512Mb Physical Memory and 1.5Gb of virtual memory - this started when i installed ffdshow(Video Codec - ive tried uninstalling this and going back to XVid) and Java 2 runtime.

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