Popup and drop down menus sort of "creep" down and any associated sound events go into what could best be described as a stutter effect, taking several seconds to complete. I seem to have had this problem ever since I've had the damn thing- it's just worse now than ever. Problem isn't tied to system resources- happens at 80+%! Ran a "clean out" program (Window Washer) before defragging, switched slot for soundcard, looked for IRQ conflicts, disabled onboard sound in the BIOS. Not sure what else to look at- any suggestions? WinME, 1.2G Athlon, 512MB RAM

hello hello on some machines m.e has problems useing 512 megs of ram or more this might or might not be your problem.you can try takeing out one ram chip and see if that helps asumeing you have 2 256 chips of course. what soft ware programs are you running?some will cause problems like this. and not show up in any tests on that i use and is a good program but i cant leave it instaled is sisoft sandra i have to uninstall after useing.you may have one or more soft ware programs afecting your computer. one thing you can try first is to right click any programs running in the task bar beside clock and chose close.any you dont need. if that has no efect .try removeing uneeded after market soft ware programs one at a time(back them up to cd first) try these and post back here have a nice day

A better defrag program like the ones in Ontrack Fix-it Utilities or Norton Utilities does wonders for performance. Even Microsoft admits that 3rd party defraggers work better than theirs. That's why they changed it in XP to a version of Diskeeper. The first thing I noticed after using Ontrack,s JetDefrag was how fast and smooth the menus open again.

Have a look here, especially at point 3 but do the rest too for good performance. If it is too much RAM that's causing the problem, go here http://www.computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/18829.html