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Re: Windows memory leak

≪You're right about leaving it on being best for the PC (assuming
you're running Nt/W2K/XP--? Vista); 9x simply cannot do it; it
gets into terminal bit-rot.≫

Windows 9x suffers from a memory leak. It is cumulative (over a period
of days). The workaround is to shut down explorer.exe in task manager
and restart it. Not the Windows explorer (file manager) application, but
the explorer.exe program which generates the desktop GUI. The memory
leak causes the system to run very slowly; restarting explorer.exe
reclaims the lost RAM (for a while). So far as I know, this was fixed in
the NT/w2k series.