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David F. Wall -> (4/12/2001 3:46:00 AM)
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Let me suggest the following:
In these days of burgeoning broadband, people frequently leave their systems booted for days on end. Or maybe you never shut your computer off just because. Or whatever.
Windows 95, 98, and all derivatives thereof do not have the infrastructure required for demanding operations over these time frames without reboot. Windows NT 4.0 with the later service packs are measurably better.
Windows 2000 provides another level of improvement.
SP:WAW 4.5 is an application that puts demands on the system, and if you run a couple of others, particularly if they're memory-hungry, you can begin to get fragmentation of memory, page file space, or you might have something with a slow memory leak running on the system.
This is a hideous way to have to deal with a consumer product, but it is a fact. So if you're having a problem like this, my first suggestion is that you reboot your system (don't just log out, REBOOT) and try again and see if things are better. Remember, when applications request resources like memory, they have to believe what the operating system tells them. The trouble is, the quality of the operating system's information degenerates in this case.
DFW
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