Right click on My Computer, choose properties, select the Performance tab.
The resources will be displayed along with your computer type
and how much ram memory you have on your system.
Right click on an empty area on the task bar.
Choose properties.
Click on the Start menu tab.
Click the clean button .
Then OK.
Why Do This?
To free up resources and to allow your computer to run faster after running different applications.
It also cleans out your temporary Documents Folder from the start menu.
If you have opened and ran a number of programs, many times windows does not free up some of
the CPU resources like it should.
How to check it out and see what is happening.
Click on Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, And click on Resource Meter.
This will put a small meter in your System tray in the bottom right hand corner of your screen.
Double click on it. It will display 3 different bar graphs.
The top one is System Resources that are free or aviable. (Over all system usage)
Right click on an empty area on the task bar. Choose properties. Click Start menu tab. Click the clean button .
The Next one down is user resources that are still free or aviable. (What you have running for programs at this time)
Close some programs you have running to free up resources.
The Bottom one is GDI resources that are still free or aviable. (resources used for your desk top)
If GDI is the lowest pick a different background for your desk top.
The procedure at the top of this page, when viewing Resources will always display the lowest value
of the 3 you have displayed for the resource meter. So you only need to concern yourself with the lowest value.
Now Close that resource meter because it eats up about 3 % of your resources.
Right click on the icon in the system tray for the resource meter and then exit to turn it off.
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