I have networked my desktop WinMe 1.7Athlon (512 ram) to my laptop 233MHz Win98se (96 ram) using WinMe home networking wizard and fast ethernet cards (Soyo k7 Dragon plus onboard for the desktop and Sitecom CB-001 on the laptop) with cross-over cable & TCP/IP on client for Microsoft networks. The network is up and running and I can see the directories on both PC's. I can access quite large files from my desktop onto my laptop. i.e 5meg .tiff will load reasonably quickly. When I open up either windows explorer or my network places on my WinME desktop the directories of the laptop appear but I cant load files. Within a few minutes I see my free ram on my desktop disappearing before my eyes till the system locks completley up. The only way out is to reboot the desktop. The whole idea of networking was to 'extract' files from my laptop to desktop so I'm not too happy right now!! Is this the infamos Me memory leak or something else going on? Please help!!

First of all,ME is notorious for not handling 512 or more unless you have applied the appropriate tweak.(If you haven't,let us know) It's also notorious for not managing resources and "any" RAM well. Are you sure you're talking about memory,or resources...as they are two completely different animals...?

oh yeah...you should follow these tips for a smoother running ME machine,if you haven't done so already; http://www.burzurq.com/forum/trevtweak.html

I've got cacheman 5.11 but I haven't really altered anything other than to have the Desktop set as a network server. The memory is 2 sticks of 256meg and cacheman is telling me its Free Ram that is disappearing... I cant recover it quick enough to stop the whole thing locking up.

I had a similar network setup although my 98se system is a P75 with only 32mb ram. ME just freezes up if I try to explore or extract any info on the older slower system. Strangely XP does not seem to have the same problem yet it's even a faster system than ME. ME just has lousy memory management characteristics. I run a memory manager called RAMPAGE in ME. It may help.