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Windows Me and RAM
Is it true, upgrading RDRAM from 256 to 512 is wasting money because Windows ME does not use memory efficient? I had crisis a few days ago and reinstall windows me on my Dell 8100 which has P4 1.5 GHZ, 256 MB RDRAM. So it has no junk right now. From my lesson, I got Spybot and Ad-aware loaded for the first time. Beside that, I have zone alarm. I have only one game soft ware installed which is Neverwinter night. Now I can tell this game runs very slow with "heavy pointer". It responds so slow like never seen before. That is why I am thinking about RAM upgrade. On the other hand I wonder because those new protective soft ware working behind, computer is busy. Please advice me. Thanks. |
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Is it true, upgrading RDRAM from 256 to 512 is wasting money because
Windows ME does not use memory efficient? Totally and utterly false. Win Me can use up to 2GB of RAM and has without doubt the best memory manager of any Win 9x operating system. It is however essential to limit the amount of memory used as virtual cache to 512MB as otherwise the system will run out of upper memory address space. 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 See KB 253912 - ""Out of Memory" Error Messages with Large Amounts of RAM Installed" (http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=253912). See also 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 Arcury wrote: Is it true, upgrading RDRAM from 256 to 512 is wasting money because Windows ME does not use memory efficient? I had crisis a few days ago and reinstall windows me on my Dell 8100 which has P4 1.5 GHZ, 256 MB RDRAM. So it has no junk right now. From my lesson, I got Spybot and Ad-aware loaded for the first time. Beside that, I have zone alarm. I have only one game soft ware installed which is Neverwinter night. Now I can tell this game runs very slow with "heavy pointer". It responds so slow like never seen before. That is why I am thinking about RAM upgrade. On the other hand I wonder because those new protective soft ware working behind, computer is busy. Please advice me. Thanks. |
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Following up, your new Zone Alarm is running at startup (hopefully) as is
the AV tool, but the free Ad-aware SE 1.05 and SpyBot 1.3 are "on demand" programs which do not usually execute in the background. You launch them when desired, like the defragmenter. I suggest installing the free "Process Explorer" from System Internals, to report all executing processes, and examine for undesired ones: www.sysinternals.com Compare with " http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html " Reprinted with permission from Paul Collins who owns the copyright to the list. CastleCops also adds additional items that may not be in the original list but attempts are made to ensure the original is also updated. The full HTML list is here(http://castlecops.com/sl-all.html). *** CastleCops is now hosting the official Pacs-portal forums.*** " That page, and this one : The CLSID / BHO List / Toolbar Master List http://computercops.biz/CLSID.html are THE most up to date Startup/CLSID,etc. lists that exist on the net,AFAIK. Mow Jan 2005 " When you think everything is in place as desired, go to PC Pitstop and run its evaluation tool to find any obvious errors and bottlenecks: www.pcpitstop.com -- Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ "Mike M" wrote in message ... Is it true, upgrading RDRAM from 256 to 512 is wasting money because Windows ME does not use memory efficient? Totally and utterly false. Win Me can use up to 2GB of RAM and has without doubt the best memory manager of any Win 9x operating system. It is however essential to limit the amount of memory used as virtual cache to 512MB as otherwise the system will run out of upper memory address space. 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 See KB 253912 - ""Out of Memory" Error Messages with Large Amounts of RAM Installed" (http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=253912). See also 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 Arcury wrote: Is it true, upgrading RDRAM from 256 to 512 is wasting money because Windows ME does not use memory efficient? I had crisis a few days ago and reinstall windows me on my Dell 8100 which has P4 1.5 GHZ, 256 MB RDRAM. So it has no junk right now. From my lesson, I got Spybot and Ad-aware loaded for the first time. Beside that, I have zone alarm. I have only one game soft ware installed which is Neverwinter night. Now I can tell this game runs very slow with "heavy pointer". It responds so slow like never seen before. That is why I am thinking about RAM upgrade. On the other hand I wonder because those new protective soft ware working behind, computer is busy. Please advice me. Thanks. |
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