I have 256mb SDRAM... ----- I play Ultima Online and Halflife/TFC For some reason I cant play UO & have any other programs running at all! When Im playing UO it says 14% resources free I have a major problem I know Im not useing memory at all is there some way to clear the memory? Check whats useing it? I have done Ctrl + Alt + Delete to see whats running but just UO and explorer. + When I copy & paste it says cannot blah blah blah out of memory! that is BS cus im not running anything!

The amount of installed ram has no bearing on your system resources. They are a relatively tiny, fixed size memory heap on all machines running Win9x. You can read more here Possibly you have a virus or spyware etc problem? Possibly Ultima is a resource 'hog'? Thinking - it's a habit.

Can I increase my systems resources by adding more RAM? You cannot increase resources by adding RAM, because the size of the two categories (USER & GDI) of resources is a fixed memory segment. ----- How can I change this?

Use a different Operating System - Win2K, XP don't have this limitation. Best you can do with your current situation is run as few resource hungry applications as possible - but if you really only have Explorer plus the game going, might be hard to run much leaner. The information on Computing.Net is the opinions of its users. Such opinions may not be accurate and they are to be used at your own risk.

Yep, resources and RAM are totally different things. Might be worth checking for viruses and malware (use Ad-Aware or similar for latter). There could be something hiding from you. No harm clearing TIF's and defragging, though these don't really relate to resource issues either. Derek.W