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System is eating up a lot of memory

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I jsut reinstall winMe. And I have 256 MB of PC2100 in this system, when I check right now. I only have 85MB of memory free. Why is that? This system is networked, does this make it different?

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Windows is known to hog up as much memory as it can get. I'd recommend you get a memory manager program.

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Oh baby...it's my turn.

<A HREF="http://content.techweb.com/winmag/columns/explorer/backissu.htm" target="_new">This page</A> has lots of useful information for Windows 95/98/ME and tweaking them and getting the most out of your system. Check out the "Resource Leaks" series.

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