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Vitaly:
MemTurbo will tidy your RAM, but will not free up User resources or GDI
resources. They have a 30-day try-before-you-buy version at
www.memturbo.com
The other solution is to increase RAM.
----- Original Message -----
From: Vitaly Larichev <vitaly@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: May 11, 1999 09:51
Subject: Off topic: how to clean up memory for faster launches ...
> Hi everybody,
>
> Need your advice, please. I use an old DOS plotting program to eyeball
intraday charts.
> With freshly booted PC, it runs nicely together with my usual stack of
other applications
> like Metastock, a few Web programs including Netscape 4.51 with 3-4
windows opened
> simultaneously. However, after I open and close (!) a number of other
applications,
> the DOS plotter starts to launch so slowly that it's just a pain. I
suspect (although
> my expertise here is quite limited) that as a DOS stuff the plotter is
very stringent in
> its
> conventional memory requirement while those others applications are not
good enough
> in cleaning after themselves when they close. Is there a software and/or
tricks
> to help in such cases? With all this frustration I am getting close to
giving up
> and rewrite my stuff for using a Windows plotter which is a more flexible,
> but ... "hope dies last".
>
> Any ideas what can I do here if not to reboot?
>
> Thank you very much for any suggestions.
>
> I run Win98 on P166 MMX with 64 Mb RAM.
>
> Please respond privately if it's not of interest to the most of list
members.
>
> Cheers, Vitaly
>
> P.S. Tried also IE5 instead of Netscape 4.51. It makes things even worse.
>
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