Windows ME Tweaks

Hey yall, a while back i tweaked my vcache, mem settings, etc. as instructed by some guides i found on the net. i then more recently downloaded a few programs like cacheman to manage my memory, and since then, things have gotten crappy. my puter runs real fast when i first boot up, but it quickly slows down. especially when i open multiple programs like IE. even clicking the start button takes like 10 seconds sometimes. i guess it changed some settings that pissed off my computer. i have a dell dimension 8100, p4 1.4ghz, 256 megs ram, radeon 8500, WD 80gig HD master and a WD 20gig slave. any ideas? are there some better guides out there? most of the ones i looked at were for ppl with like 64 to 128 megs, so they were kinda old..........but still had Windows ME instructions in them.....thanks

ryall

Gary Hendricks
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