According to this site (in the highlighted section), PSTORES installs as part of IE4, but is required to run Outlook Express 98. Since you are running IE 5.0 and Outlook Express 2000, I’m not sure if that info is relevant.
I just put psstores.exe in the search box for Netscape & found this little gem from some computer guru:
'I checked TechNet and the MS web site. I found a few hits, but nothing useful. The one helpful piece of
information I did find was that it was associated with the Protected Storage service. I fired up Control
Panel - Services and, sure enough, there was a service named Protected Storage running. I could have
simply stopped that service, but stopping a service that I don’t know the purpose of seemed like a bad
idea. So I searched some more, this time for “protected storage.” This time, I found enough hits to learn that
Protected Storage is installed when one installs Internet Explorer 4. I still don’t know what Protected
Storage does, but I wasn’t planning to use IE4 on this test bed machine anyway, so it seemed safe to stop
the Protected Storage service. I did so, and the machine continues to run with no apparent bad effects."
Ask Demo about it, he is tickled pink over this program.
It’s a small program that keeps track of your physical memory. Since Windows can’t manage memory very well, it get’s rid of programs that are still stuck in memory long after they have closed out.
Also, it has an alarm that goes off when that memory is too low.
