>>Help solve the mystery of “System Resources” . I am running a test for a client on my home pc
>>It is a visual foxpro 5.0 app that outputs the results of the file to an excel worksheet and runs a macro
>>In excel. I set up an access database as a remote data source. My system resources before I run the program is 94% after the program is 44%. After closing everything , it is still is 44%. Why??
>>When I run the program on the client PC ( on an WINNT network) I don’t have this problem.
>>Please Help.
>>Thanks,
>>Doug Blincoe
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>Assuming that your home PC is Win9x, that OS is vulnerable to low resource conditions, since it has several small heaps that can run low if you're running several programs at once. This problem does not exist under Windows NT.
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I assume you refer to the 4 global heaps. They still are limits that apply to Win16 apps that don't run isolated VDMs.

>One possibility is that it may look like all the programs are closed, but there may still be ODBC drivers, Jet for Access etc. left running in the background. Reboot your machine, then before starting the process use Ctrl-Alt-Del and examine the list of running tasks. Do it again after you've run and "closed" your process, and see if anything has been left running that wasn't there when you first started your machine.

What resources exactly are drained - things might still sit in cache in case you need them before having to use it for other stuff