I have a lot of stations on a network and have something called FILE PROTECTOR installed. What this does is stop any silly people changing the settings of important files and/or the registry. Any changes to be made to the system must be done with this file protector disabled, then make the change, then reboot, and then turn file protector on again and it will save the new settings. Well I started getting messages on some of my stations saying insufficient memory... or something along those lines.... when users tried to open MS Word with Internet Explorer (version 5). I checked inet settings and saw in the internet options advanced tab that "empty temporary internet files when browser is closed" is unchecked. My theory is that this is clogging up my memory.... all stations in question have 64 meg ram. When I disable file Protector to make changes and then reboot the stations the changes are not made. Anyone have any ideas how to solve this?? Is my theory right or is there another cause for the memory error??

clearing all the temp files? use the shortcut from the start menu thats titled "windows explorer" this will enable view of the content ie folder which isnt displayed via the my computer icon. try removing the program from start up, reboot make changes. renable it reboot. maybe a feature or bug of it keeps it running if its just disabled.

I'm not familiar with the file protection that you're using, but cleaning out temporary internet files isn't a problem. Click Tools - Internet Options - Settings, set the slider to about 10 MB, then click Apply - OK. Go to the C:\Windows\Temporary Internet Files folder, then click Edit - Select All - File - Delete. You can also use Disk Cleanup in Start - Programs - Accessories - System Tools.

Cleaning out temp files will not Unclog memory. If you are getting out of memory errors they are most likely related to too many startup programs (same as low on resources) or, your harddrive is full and the swapfile is having trouble.