How can I manage applications that consume large amounts of System Resources?
Be careful about loading several of these programs at once, and completely close any program you are not still using. These Resources are finite. The “big three” types of programs that are Resource guzzlers are: • Programs with heavy graphics demands • Multimedia programs • Web browsers and, to a slightly lesser degree, any Internet-based program “What?!” (you may exclaim). “That’s pretty much all I run, except the occasional word processor! That’s mostly why I have a computer!!” For many people, this is quite true. Additionally, more and more business software includes increased Internet inter-connectivity, more dynamic graphical elements, etc. This is one of the reasons more people are encountering more serious problems with System Resources issues with each passing year. According to the Knowledge Base article “System Resource Decrease After Starting and Quitting a Program,” additional decrease in Resources (without their release) can occur if you start to load a program and then qu
