Sometimes images that appear onscreen, (windows, ads) don't completely leave the screen when I hit the X in the top right corner. An edge will stay on or the spot will remain, with info gone. Also, sometimes the desktop picture breaks up into smaller copies of itself arranged on the screen. Restarting fixes this, but what's happening in the first place? Is this something I can fix by upgrading to Windows 2000 or XP?

Thats probably because you dont have much memory or there are corrupt files that are affecting your system performance.Do one thing:

1.Right click my computer and click properties.
2.Now click the Performance Tab on the top.
3.Check the System Resources field.

It should be between 75-90 % or else your computer is affected by unwated files.Remove syware/adware and then observe your system performance.

"It should be between 75-90 % or else your computer is affected by unwated files."

This is kind of a broad statement. I have (98SE) 384MB of RAM, 32MB video RAM, my resources are at 68%, and things are running just fine. (Spyware/adware free system.)

The reported resources are directly proportional to what ROM's are shadowed in the bios, the amount of video RAM, the amount of system RAM, how it's set up in windows, what is loaded at startup, and what one has opened and running (windows/applications) at the time of the "reading".

Based on the above, how much RAM is in the system?

Is the video ROM shadowed in the bios?

Have you made any adjustments to the "stock" virtual memory settings?

Originally Posted by Dan Penny

"It should be between 75-90 % or else your computer is affected by unwated files."

This is kind of a broad statement.

Oh, but i was given this information here.I didnt knew it doesnt matter.

What does "shadowed in the BIOS" mean?

Think of it as a "copy". In the bios you (usually) have the options of "shadowing" the system bios and the display/video adapter bios into the system RAM. This way, if anything makes a "call" to the system/machine level or to the video card, the information is already in memory to be acted upon, as opposed to going through all the system buss paths to obtain any information.

This is an old setting. In todays world, with the speed of things and such, (video cards have their own memory and direct connections, etc) these shadowing elements aren't used as much.