Ever since installing a Windows ME upgrade to Windows 95 I have the following problem: Immediately after starup, resources are at 73% and processor utilization at 62%. After about 1 hour the cursor gradually gets jumpy and sound "stutters" and eventually ME restarts on its own. Resources & utilization change little over this period, except the utilization plot develops "spikes".

You may need a new mouse driver. My Miscosoft Intellimouse Optical (a year ago) didn't even come with WinMe compatible software! If you don't have an optical mouse, get one; they reasonably cheap now, and so much better than a ball mouse. There are tons of posts on this forum about system resources and memory use, management, leaks, etc. Do NOT use Norton's System Doctor.

http://www.computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/18705.html http://www.computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/18106.html

The problem is not just with the mouse, but with all system processes. For instance, with game graphics, there are pauses, and, as I said earlier, the system sounds "stutter" and the processor time spikes up to 100% usage. System resources don't get reduced significantly. The problem seems to be with something causing random spikes in processor time, eventually causing the system to die and restart. I do have an optical mouse. The problems don't occur immediately after restart, but gradually get worse over several hours.

carl system stats & setup would be helpfull sounds like lack of horsepower but how would one know? try jump starting(restart) every 100 miles to free up some resources shep