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I have Pentium IV HT 2.8GHz with 1GB RAM.
I have both winXP and winME installed.
My windows XP works much faster then windows ME on my PC.
Although my winXP have more programs installed and more
programs working at the same time.

Is there any options or patches that can be used on winME
so it would work faster?

As I understand winME has a limit for 512MB of RAM, can it
be fixed or can this be the problem for the slow
performance?

Win Me like all other Win 9x operating systems can support up to 2GB of
RAM subject to a number of a number of caveats and exceptions details of
which are contained in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles
with the first essential reading where more than 512MB of memory is
installed. Note though that many motherboards have a much lower limit as
to the amount of memory that can be installed.

For more details see:
MS KB 253912 - ""Out of Memory" Error Messages with Large Amounts of RAM
Installed" (http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=253912). The reason is that
allocating more than 512MB of RAM to vcache will exhaust all available
upper
memory addresses and thus prevent them being used for other purposes.
This
problem is easily fixed as follows:
To limit vcache, open system.ini and add the lines
[VCache]
MaxFileCache=512000
Note that this will still mean that all memory is available to
applications
but is simply limiting the amount used as virtual cache memory.

MS KB 296773 - "Computer May Not Hibernate with More Than 192 MB of
Memory"
(http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=296773). This makes reference to an
updated file vmm.vxd. Contact Microsoft, explain the problem, and mention
296773 and you should be given details of how to obtain the patch and the
password of the day. Note that there should be no support charge for this
call other than for any telecom charges incurred in ringing Microsoft.

MS KB 304943 - "Computer May Reboot Continuously with More Than 1.5 GB of
RAM" (http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=304943).
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Slow performance wrote:

I have Pentium IV HT 2.8GHz with 1GB RAM.
I have both winXP and winME installed.
My windows XP works much faster then windows ME on my PC.
Although my winXP have more programs installed and more
programs working at the same time.

Is there any options or patches that can be used on winME
so it would work faster?

As I understand winME has a limit for 512MB of RAM, can it
be fixed or can this be the problem for the slow
performance?