Windows XP Presario?
) Other than hardware issues or software incompatibilities, the chief cause of lockups in Win 9X PCs is low system resources. Regardless of the amount of RAM in your PC, Win 9X allocates a small block of memory (normally 128K) for system resources. Each application or utility that loads takes a small chunk of this finite amount. Better written apps will release the resources when you close them, but not all apps are well-written and do not release the system resources they were using or release only part of the amount. So, over the day, Windows system resources slowly dwindle away. When they drop to around 50%, slowdowns and lockups are far more likely to occur. There are a couple of steps you can take to help the resource issue. First, make sure your startup resource level is as high as possible. Out of the box, some Presarios load so much “junk” at bootup, the startup resource figure is on the 75% range. Too low. A “clean” setup will start out in the 85-90% range. With only Explorer,
