hi i have a 128mb 30gig hd hp and running with all unnecesary programs turned off im running at 50% free ram could this account for a very slow computer?

Try this; >Windows Explorer will usually try and cache DLL's by keeping them in memory even after the application using them has been closed. This can cause performance problems on low memory systems, and can be annoying when the DLL's remain in use. Open your registry and find the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]. Create a new sub-key named 'AlwaysUnloadDll' and set the default value to equal '1' to disable Windows holding the DLL in memory. Restart Windows for the change to take effect. Registry Settings: Key:HKLM\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AlwaysUnloadDLL] Value Name: Default Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value) Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value) Data: (1 = enable)

Iam very interested in trying the registry entry described above! I have never entered a new registry key B/4 , and am rather on edge, that I may do something wrong ! Can you give a more step by step directions on how to make the change on releasing the DLL's from memeory. This is not the frist time I've read that doing this can improve your performance in WinMe. I already pasted your other directions to clipboard and copied it to notepad, Thanks Nick

#19414 Name: I'll Try Date: February 04, 2002 at 23:57:09 Pacific Subject: ME Memory Leak Reply: Gerri, If you don't want to do the registry. Go to http://www.xteq.com and download Systems X-Setup. Install it and at "[+]System">>"[+]Memory" Then click "General Memory Settings" Check "Unload DLLs directly" Then click "Apply Changes" close or exit X-Setup and do what it says to do. ========== Tweaking ME http://www.computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/18705.html http://www.computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/18106.html