We're club members of Pogo and lately we've been getting a lot of errors when trying to play the games. Applet errors, Java errors, not enuff Memory errors. I use Netscape to play in the site, and so use Sun Java [**gag's**] which is up-to-date and working fine. After having been booted from a game for the 6th time, I complained in the chat and someone told me to clear out my caches. Well, I do this every time I log out, whether I want to log out or not. When I mentioned I was running at between 4-7% CPU usuage, the person flipped and said that is not enough and no wonder I was having memory problems! They said if they're 20% and under their puter crashes. If I don't have anything open, I've got like 33 things running in the background. I can have multiple Paints, documents, IE pages, Netscape pages, messengers and my OE open and still be running between 4-7% [tho usually flucuates between 2 and 10% then]. I know the usage isn't the same as the memory, but how is having low usage a BAD thing? I thought it was a good thing? TIA

It is a good thing, and it probably doesn't have anything to do with why you're getting those errors. Not enough memory errors mean just that, not enough memory. Maybe you have too many things running in the background, try shutting some of them down.

I've turned off e-thing possible in my Task Manager and closed e-thing but my browser and was still getting the memory errors. I cleared out all my caches, temp files, cookies, internet files, etc and defragged. I ran the two programs I have to delete un-needed files [QuickClean Lite and Windows Washer], defragged again. Was still getting the memory errors. How can I check to see how much memory is being used? It's probably just a Pogo problem, one of many, some day's I get it all the time and others I don't get it at all. Thanks for the advice.

i had the same poblem, in task manager there would be about 40 programs with names i never heard of. i did a complete factory restore and put some antivirus on there that should solve the problem

You can check memory usage in Task Manager on the Performance page. It will tell you how much RAM you are using and how much of your page file is being used.

Ricky, I had all sorts of things in mine too. I Googled every one of them to see what they were, keep them in a document so I can refer back to them if anything's changed. I go here: http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/ for the Process Library lists and here: http://www.windowsstartup.com/wso/browse.php for the Startup lists. If you're curious about CLISD's, I go here: http://computercops.biz/CLSID.html to check them out. The one's not needed, I turned off in the Startup so they no longer run, and with my list, if I need to end any processes, I know which one's I can safely. Barelysane, Thanks!!