My explorer keeps crashing and crashing and crashing. I reformatted and reinstalled Win98 but the same thing happens. It is a New amdk6 3D 2 400mhz with pc100 64 SD. it is very odd. also I am curious why my 10.6 gig hd gets read in windows as 10 gig. do I lose 600 megs? weirdness.... thanks in advance. Bob

Virtual Cache This is the Disk Cache (replacement for smartdrive), not to confuse with Virtual Memory. Some users only use a maximum setting, others a maximum and minimum setting. Just experiment and find what's best in your situation. Open System.ini for editing (click Start > Run and type sysedit in the Open box and click OK) Or use find type sysedit and create a shortcut for easy access. Select System.ini in the System Configuration Editor to bring it to the front Add these lines to the [vcache] section (add the section if it's not there): (I use this one with 64meg ram) [vcache] MinFileCache=4096 MaxFileCache=4096 or [vcache] MinFileCache=1024 MaxFileCache=8192 (This setting is for 32Mb RAM) These values limit the size of the vcache (in kilobytes), so that Windows is prevented from using more of your available RAM for the vcache. This will increase the amount of free memory available to your system, so that when you open another program it is not paged to disk immediately due to lack of free memory. The MinFileCache (=Minimum File Cache) setting prevents Windows 95 from shrinking the cache below 1024Kb. As a rule of thumb, use 25% of your RAM for the MaxFileCache. In general, most users say that a MaxFileCache (=Maximum File Cache setting) of up to 9Mb works best for them, even if they have more RAM available. Just experiment with these settings to find what works best for you. You can see how your vcache behaves by starting System Monitor (Sysmon.exe) from your Windows directory. Choose Edit > Add Item > Memory Manager > Disk cache size. Where in Windows does it read 10 Gig ? Is there a partition? Do not know about win98 or how big of drive it can handle. My win95 can only handle 2gig per partition drive.

Can't read my mail. message reveals a stack dump. How can I rectify this problem?

How come when i try to re-download Internet Explorer 5 it says illegal operation, then it says stack dump ?? It does it with most of my programs that i have on, i scanned it for viruses already and it found 2 viruses, but i fixed that already, but it still does it, i deleted it and redownloaded Explorer 5 and it still does it with everything, please let me know!! thanks!!

i`m sorry if this sound stupid, but what does stack dump mean? It says this wean I want to load a particular CD.

Whenever i try to download music from "music4 free.com it says "WAOL" stack dump.

NOTEPAD caused an invalid page fault in module KERNEL32.DLL at 015f:bff9d709. Registers: EAX=c0030214 CS=015f EIP=bff9d709 EFLGS=00010212 EBX=0063fe28 SS=0167 ESP=0053fe7c EBP=00540118 ECX=00000000 DS=0167 ESI=00000000 FS=1277 EDX=bff76859 ES=0167 EDI=bff79198 GS=0000 Bytes at CS:EIP: 53 8b 15 dc 9c fc bf 56 89 4d e4 57 89 4d dc 89 Stack dump: