Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dorsai From: dorsai@iear.arts.rpi.edu (gregory d moncreaff) Subject: Re: Out of resource in Windows 3? Message-ID: <3lzgb=p@rpi.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: iear.arts.rpi.edu Organization: the committee for asethetic deletions References: <1991Apr29.184300.13990@amd.com> <=hzg13n@rpi.edu> Date: 30 Apr 91 02:04:38 GMT Lines: 14 reguarding this thread, has anyone noticed that if you open up a an iconized group in program.exe there is an unrecoverable loss of system resources? ie. before open, 77% free; while open 70%; but when you close it it stays at 70% i really noticed this when i re-installed whinedows; there were so many little pieces of quasi usefull (_)ware on my disk that when i rebooted an ran windows, all the program groups were open, and i had only 6% free resources! perhaps someone from the programming group can tell us if this 'free system resources' actually coresponds to the # of program.rc info, aka icons that have been used? -- "A perfect democracy, a 'warm body' democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction. It de- pends solely on the wisdom and self restraint of citizens ... which is opposed by the folly and lack of self-restraint of other citizens. What is supposed to