At 11:49 PM 5/30/00 -0500, you wrote: OK, I'm going to take this a piece at a time.. some of this I don't understand.. Or it might be the terminology you are using that I don't understand. >This is definitely Eudora related.. she is a glutton on our systems.. but >I must say I love her dearly.. > >What is a TSR.. Terminate and stay resident. Your AV program is a TSR. It stays in the stack, looking at everything that goes by, and attacks anything it does not like. >What do you mean the scanner software is installed for scanner init. >scanning Does a scanner load at boot up?? I can initiate scanning from the R40 by pushing a button. If I do not plan any scanning for the present computer time, I do not need the speed of the push button, so un-check it in msconfig. If I do need it, I run msconfig, re-check it, and reboot. Now it is there for fast scanning without touching the keyboard. >You lucky stick with a cable modem.. :-) Sure beats anything I have used at home. Of course before I retired, I was at a University Lab, with a 10 meg router, on the big pipe to the internet. Blows even Cable away. >What do you mean load in a line... Try to install the software one by one in line so that they code in the stacks works well together. This can take a lot of time, but pays off. When I was setting up computers for the Physicist and Engineers, I only had to do it once as a rule, as they all used about the same programs. Only if one needed a special CAD or Simulate program, was their general set of programs different. I would not let them get cute and run games and such that I had not worked on, to make sure they were not going to kill their paying work. >Explain the memory stack > >What does the sentence which of the 3 resource stacks is the worst >for my system.. There are three programs that load when the bios loads. They control the input/output, control of who gets the CPU etc. Each has its own part of the first megabyte of memory to use in the computer. These are the resource stacks. They are limited in size, so we have the overflow of stack problem. Go to My Computer, and right click the icon. Under the menu, you will will see an item called System Information. If it is not there, you are probably in W95 and did not tell it to load. It is in the normal installation for W98. Left click, and open the window. Choose the Memory tab, and you will see the stacks. It shows which part of memory is used by each program. The stacks however is not all that is shown. Your programs such as Eudora will also show. It has a graphic, which shows memory usage. You will discover you have more Windows memory than Physical memory. This has to do with disk swapping. The other tabs let you look at the other things going on at the time. >I haven't a clue if I'm letting windows control my swap disk.. I don't >even think I know what it is.. :-) Go to My Computer, right click and chose system properties. Under performance tab is your virtual memory. If you click this you will see how it is handled. There are as many ways to do this swapping as there are users, so I will not go into the way to use it here. If I get time I will try to find some web sites which discuss this. It is very involved, but you can speed up your work and save some resources at times by controlling the swap yourself. If you do it wrong however you will kill the computer, causing you to do a clean install again, starting at fdisk. When in areas like this, if you do not want any thing to change by accident, cancel yourself out of the windows, by just selecting cancel. >When working I almost always have Eudora opened monitoring my mail every >10 minutes, Netscape, IE, HTML Notepad, Cute FTP, PSP6, MSM, ... I guess >that would cover it.. Sometime during the work load, I'd ALWAYS lockup.... > >I'm hoping others are enjoying this class time with you and George and >Mari as well. I'm soaking it up like a sponge. My husband has me keeping >copies so he can ck out his puter in the other room.. :-).. >I'm definitely willing to learn, so please will you, George continue.. If >others prefer, we can take it private.. Going private is OK with me, but we should see what others say, whether this is good for them. Jack PS I am just an intermediate computer user, not an expert, so I do slip at times. George, sound up if anything I say sounds wrong.

At 07:05 PM 5/31/2000 -0700, you wrote: Ginger, One comment about the programs you always have opened ~~ PSP6 is a memory hog and will cause problems. This coming from avid PSP6 users I've become friends with. Most of them use PSP6 constantly and find that it will cause lockups especially when having as many programs as you have open at the same time. They have experimented with having different combinations of programs open, and invariably have found that PSP6 is the culprit. Now, none of them will give up PSP6, but they have found that when using it, to shut down all other programs. I also have had the same problem with PSP both versions 5 and 6. Since I do web page design, I also like to have all the other programs open with it, but have found that it is easier to reopen the programs than to mess with having to reboot all the time ;) My system tray consists of the following on startup: Task Scheduler, Ensoniq Mixer, AnalogX MaxMem (available at www.analogx.com), Norton AV Auto Protect, AnalogX AtomicTimeSync, ZoneAlarm, Snappy Fax2000. I hope this discussion stays on the list as I have learned a lot from it and hope that I have contributed some also. :) Rene' > >>When working I almost always have Eudora opened monitoring my mail every >>10 minutes, Netscape, IE, HTML Notepad, Cute FTP, PSP6, MSM, ... I guess >>that would cover it.. Sometime during the work load, I'd ALWAYS lockup.... >> >>I'm hoping others are enjoying this class time with you and George and >>Mari as well. I'm soaking it up like a sponge. My husband has me keeping >>copies so he can ck out his puter in the other room.. :-).. >>I'm definitely willing to learn, so please will you, George continue.. If >>others prefer, we can take it private.. > >Going private is OK with me, but we should see what others say, whether >this is good for them. >