🚀 go-pugleaf

I apologize for the cross-posting of this.  I can't find a good group for 
this that is well propagated.  (I tried com.sys.ibm.pc.games first)

I already have to reboot into MS-DOS mode or totally into MS-DOS mode for 
many DOS games in Win95.

I'm running into a similar brick wall with native Win95 games.  My 
resources are so stressed (either the Window heap or memory in general) 
that I have to unload quite a few processes before I can get decent 
performance out of Win95 games.  In fact, Diablo runs my windows heap to 
about nothing and comes close to crashing.  I already have 32 meg of RAM 
and use Hurricane (which interestingly enough does NOT do heap management 
in Win95).

I've got quite a few things loading and only a small percentage of them 
have icons in the taskbar.  I have to press CTRL-ALT-DEL to get the full 
list and mess with unloading each of these separately.  And if I'm done 
playing games, I probably want those processes back anyway.  It's easier 
to hold down shift and "restart the computer" than try to get my config 
back.

I'm looking for a utility to unload selected processes on demand, and 
then reload them when I tell it to.

For backups it would be nice also because then I wouldn't have files open 
that don't get backed up that these background processes keep open.

If anybody can help me locate this utility if it exists, I would 
appreciate it.

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Matt Turley
Computer/IS/LAN Analyst
Carlinville National Bank, Carlinville, IL

http://members.aol.com/turls