re leaking memory resources in in article apr seas gwu edu louray seas gwu edu michael panayiotakis writes in article c aw h v csn org richardf teal csn org iriemon writes dmittleman bpavms bpa arizona edu daniel mittleman writes i am running win with ndw on a sx with meg of memory and a meg perm swap file and am getting exceedingly frustrated that my applications are not giving back system resources when i close them i ve noticed this also the way it was explained to me is that windows does not clear the upper memory blocks after a program is done anyone out there know if this is why there was a post about something similar a while back it seems windows does not take it upon itself to free up any sys resources an applllication is using when that application is done that job is left entirely to the application that is the application has to clean up after itself when it quits anyone out there know if there is a utility for windows which will clean up sys resources when an application quits mother zip peace mickey it could also be that your shell is hogging the resources for example open the apps with data files that cause resulting low system resources with ndw x as shell then do the same with program manager and see if it s the shell or the apps ted
