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I.E 6 - menu disappears - Causes low-resources

Jun 5, 2004 9:47PM PDT

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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What OS? Since you mention "resources", the 64,000 byte space...
Jun 5, 2004 10:50PM PDT

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

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Re:What OS? Since you mention
Jun 5, 2004 11:35PM PDT

Windows 2000 Pro - latest service pack - all windows updates

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In Windows 2000, there are no "resources" measurement.
Jun 6, 2004 12:09AM PDT

This is because such are unlimited (or rather used from main memory.)

You'll have to use the jargon and words of Windows 2000. Just sharing, I've used NT 3 and beyond for far too many years. Please tell a bit more.

And again, there are issues with IE 6. And no sign such will be repaired. Your choice on the matter, but since you have one of the right OS, this issue can be simply some paging file size, or the registry size limits. But your post doesn't have the right "Windows 2000" words for me to tell what to change.

Tell more.

Bob