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I have windows 98 PC, memory is at 100% usage. What and how do I erase to increase memory?

The PC is to old to be buying more memory. Space in C and D is very plentiful.

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1. Simple... You need a new PC (or Mac if you want)
2. You may be running a lot of programs at once, causing your memory usage to spike. Restarting the computer will help, but it may only be temporarily. I believe this will work in Win '98: Hit Shift+Ctrl+Esc to bring up the task manager ('98 may want you to do alt+ctrl+del). Under processes, there shouldn't be more than 30 or so running at once. Anything over that suggests you have computer bugs running rampant in your computer. The best suggestion for that is to get a program like Spybot, Ad-Aware and/or AVG to remove the bugs.
3. You can do a search for files over 1mb. That'll bring up your biggest files. You can buy an external harddrive if it gets too bad. For ram, there's a program on download.com called ramdef extreme that will conserve memory.
4. If you`re referring to hard drive, then I would delete any unused ,or seldom used programs . If you are able you might try a secondary hard drive, but some older equip. might not handle this ..Sorry , i`ve been there too...
5. When you say memory, I assume that you mean hard drive space. If so, I would do the following: 1. Go to add / remove programs in Control Panel, and remove every application that you do not use. (Especially the ones that take up the most space.) 2. Follow that with a disc clean up. Accessories, system tools, disc clean up. 3. De frag the hard drive. Accessories, system tools, disc defragment. That is about all you can do, however, if you are determined to keep an old laptop, you could purchase a larger hard drive, clone it to the internal drive, and then swap out the drives.
6. you just answered your own question! its too old to buy more memory! If you want to try..save your data on disc and get a new machine! You could add/remove old programs you dont or cant use anymore, clean out cookies and the like, check disc, and defrag will help but for the most part...its time for more than an upgrade...oh if you dont want to make disc in your old machine you can try moving the hard drive to a new machine and make it the slave.
7. Ok, first you press Crl+Alt+Delete to bring up the Task manager. Now it should list all the programs running. End any unwanted programs that you don't want to run. Now, click Start, and Run. Now type "msconfig" without the quotation marks, and press enter or ok. Now go to the start up tab and uncheck any programs that you don't use, just make sure that the program is not used by Windows. Now restart. All those programs you unchecked earlier shouldn't start, making for less memory usage. Now you can unistall these programs, just to free up some space. But, of course, a new computer would be best if you could afford it.