🚀 go-pugleaf

I've got a feeling this may be the wrong group, but undaunted I will ask 
the question anyway.

While running Windows 3.11 from the outset a reported 80% of system 
resources are available, but after running programs such as Turnpike 
Connect and Offline, Paint Shop Pro and maybe File Manager, my resources 
dip to around 60%, sometimes as less as 55%. 

OK, now I have had a 30 minute session of running various programs 
closed them ALL and am looking at the Program Manager with all groups 
minimised, click on Help/About Program Manager and this now shows 60% 
free resources, or thereabouts.

Now if I start any program I know its about time to re-start Windows 
because anything I try to run does so at and increasingly slower pace. 
If I attempted to connect to Demon with TP, I will either simply not 
manage it i.e. the modem will just not initialise or I may get a 2400
connection or just odd tunes coming from the speaker.

My system is: 486 DX4/100, 8Mb 70ns, ET4000/W32p video card, main HDD 
220Mb Quantum, MrModem 28800 V34 with Rockwell chip. In DOS Smartdrv is 
set with 1024 128, 386 Enhanced mode has virtual memory of around 15Mb 
and cache set at 512k (at the moment, I have tried numerous different 
settings here)

Simply, is there a way of retaining a reasonable level of system 
resources, by adjustment of settings or by software package, so to avoid 
the complete restarting of the machine?

TC
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TC