Try this: Restart your computer. Wait for it to load completely then, right click on My Computer, choose "Properties", then the "Performance" tab. The System Resources should be at about 90% or more at startup. So let's fix it. Click on Start-Programs-Start Up. If there are any listings in the Start Up area, you need to delete as many as you can.(Right click the listing and choose "Delete". Please remember that these are just shortcuts to programs and not actual program files, so its safe to delete them.
Then click on Start-Run, in the typing area put "msconfig" (without the quotes), press Ok. When the System Configuration Utiltiy box opens, click on the Start Up tab. You will see a number of listings with boxes and check marks in them. These are programs that run at start up. You can safely uncheck many of the boxes. Don't uncheck System Tray, Scan Registry, or your Virus Scan startup programs. After you?re done, click ?Apply?, then 0K, and the computer will ask you to restart. Do it and then check your resources again. Hopefully they are much higher.(Don't worry too much, if you make a mistake you can always go back to this box and put a check back in any of the listings you want)
If you have any questions about which programs to UNCHECK in "msconfig", post back, or check for yourself at these sites: http://ww2.whidbey.net/djdenham/Uncheck.htm or http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.htm. At this second site, which is probably the most comprehensive, wait for the page to load completely, then scroll down to the "The Programs" section and click on the "Full List" link. You should be able to find most programs you have questions about.
Hope this helps.
Grif
Darn, why is it I have a number of problems at once?
I use MS Works to store memos and other information I want to keep. In the past, I've had a lot more material in there than I have recently. Yet, it was only recently that, when I wanted to put something new in Works, I started getting a Works message: "works cannot complete the task because there is not enough memory on your computer. Try closing some programs or restarting Windows." That can happen even though I have a minimum of programs opened; if I do have a number of programs open, and I close all of them but the essentials, I still get the message. The other day I wanted to save something with only 650 words but couldn't. Sometimes, if I delete cookies and temporaries, I can then save something new in Works, but not always. Sometimes, I end up having to restart, and sometimes even that doesn't work.
I use Windows 98SE. I just recently had the speed increased from 450 to 1000 and the Ram increased from 175 to 375. MS System Info shows available space on Drive C as 4432MB of 6169MB. I thought things would get better instead of worse.
I don't know if this info is relevant but here it is:
That webroot site shows this in system audit results:
Performance finding:
Recoverable disk space: 2.83 MB
IE Cache: 628 KB
IE cookies 38 KB
IE hostory 72 KB
Windows Temp files: 2.11 KB
From AIDA32:
Physical memory
Total 375 MB
Used 180 MB
Free 194 MB
Virtual memory:
Total 2044 MB
Used 65 MB
Free 1978 MB
Utilization 3%
AIDA32 under Processes shows I have 23 program files with about 48,000KB memory used.
One thing I don't understand is that when I ran AIDA32 a couple of months ago, it didn't include these items which showed up yestterday:
MSWORKS 9,664 KB
QTTASK 19,784 kb
WKSWP: 12,216 k
WKGDCACH 6,,020 KB
AOL 1060 KB
WAOL 24,712 KB
These items were in the old log but not in this new one:
AVGCC32 10,284 kb
HPZSTATX 2,728 KB
I have had AOL, MSWorks and AVG all along.
If anyone has any thoughts about why I keep getting the memory full message for MS Works, please let me know.
The above is the only time I have gotten any kind of not enough memory message.

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