[Lee'sGhost]

You have some good info. Can anyone tell me why my Compaq Presario (AMD) has such bad memory leak? It's something like a 900 megabites, 20 meg HD, 192 ram, and Windows ME. If I leave the damn thing on for a little while it starts flashing "not enough memory" messages at tme. Balderdash!!! I reboot and clears the junk out OK, but why should I have to do that with so much horsepower? I had a Gateway with half the ponies and it never had that problem.

[John Farson]

Sometimes a 3rd-party program will cause the memory leak. There are some registry hacks to unload programs after you exit them. Do a Google search on "DLL unload", it will conserve memory a bit. Also, one of your memory chips may be bad or your motherboard may have more memory than it can handle.

[fjsva]

Did you clear out all the junk Compaq loads each time the computer starts. I bought a Compaq 5838 that would suck resources dry just booting it. I boosted RAM to 256 MB and disabled all the junk loaded at startup...all the compaq tools and diagnostics are unnecesary. Made a big difference.

Also, NT/2000 handles memory much better 98/ME. Noticed a big difference when I switched.