Noone interested in Fixing Winamp????

[DJ Egg]

Basically, it's a Windows bug where all your available physical RAM gets used up (All RAM is used for DiskCache), including the virtual memory created by the swap file (win386.swp), and Windows doesn't free-up/release it properly even after the programs that were using it have been shut down.

Usually, the only way to free up your memory is to reboot.

However, there are plenty of memory management software programs out there, and many of them are freeware.
MemoryElevator & RAMBooster & MaxMem spring to mind.

I've just searched http://www.pc911.com for a few helpful articles, so check out these links for more info:

Re: CacheMan (freeware)
http://www.pcnineoneone.com/downloads/system.html

Resource Leaks vs Memory Leaks:
http://www.pcnineoneone.com/howto/resources1.html

Troubleshooting Memory Leaks:
http://www.pcnineoneone.com/howto/ts1.html

However, all I could find @ M$ Support was this:
http://support.microsoft.com/support.../q242/1/61.asp
http://support.microsoft.com/support.../Q128/3/27.ASP


One very useful tip I can give you
is to manually edit your system.ini file as follows

[vCache]
MaxFileCache=xxxxx

xxxxx should be equal to exactly ¼ of your physical RAM.
eg. if you have 96MB RAM, a ¼ of 96 = 24
To turn 24MB into the required figure in KiloBytes, multiply by 1024.
Therefore, 96 divided by 4 = 24 x 1024 = 24576

MaxFileCache=24576


system.ini is found in the Windows dir and can be edited in Notepad.
Do not change anything else in this file, but only what I've outlined above.
The [vCache] line should already exist,
so just type in the MaxFileCache value underneath it.
Save the file, and reboot.