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On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:05:21 -0500, "Ron Badour"
wrote: It was pool league last night hence the late response. I agree with what Jeff said--it makes no difference at all until you approach zero (annoying notices) and once you get to zero. Defrag resources? It is only a 64 kb chunk of memory so just how fragmented could it get? And since memory works so blazingly fast, I think there is no speeding it up at least from a fragmentation standpoint. If you cut back on the needless programs started at boot, the system will *boot* a lot faster and you will have more resources available to start with which might preclude running out later in a computing session. Yeah, I've done that. I've thought about setting up hardware configurations, but that would prolly require multi-booting during the day, so I basically would just be better off having my current start up group/progies, though I might, turn off my AV and only have that running before I surf. I've a few batches set up to turn the AV and firewall on Huh, doing a somewhat unscientific test: Resources Program Before After Exit ************************************************** ************* EditPad Lite 59% 49% 59% MsWorks 7.0 Launcher 59% 50% Start a blank WP document 50% 43% 50% MsWorks 7.0 Launcher (exiting) 50% 58% MsWorks WP 58% 51% 57% (58%) EDIT 58% 58% 58% NE (Never Edlin) 58% 57% 58% Too bad EDIT can't do more than just plain text editing. NE is basically a Notepad editor except for DOS, one would think that it was like EDIT at least in appearance, but 64KB files are it's limit (like notepad), unlike EDIT, it can do spellchecking and some formatting, which I'm still trying to figure out, at least it can insert a full date and not abreviated. I'd really love to find a proggie which can do all sorts of text, DOS or Win98/98SE and not be a resource hog, not have a file limit size and be able to have multiple files open. -- Sincerely, | (©) (©) | ------ooo--(_)--ooo------ Andrew H. Carter | /// \\\ d(-_-)b | |
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"Andrew H. Carter (Applied ROT 17 Left, for Email do 17 Right)"
wrote: The more resources one has, the "faster" the comp will run, so is there a way to defrag the system resources. BUt apparently there isn't. System Resources in Windows 95/98/Me is a highly specialized term that refers specifically to the two 16 bit Resource Heaps, each 64 kilobytes in size, and which are used for various program control and interface items. The two areas are referred to as User Resources and GDI Resources separately and Windows reports the value of whichever has the least amount of unused space remaining as the value for "Free System Resources" in Control Panel - Performance. The free space is converted to a percentage (of the 64KB total) when reported. The value of free system resources is not, in itself, a performance item. However a low value for free system resources may indicate that you have a large number of applications open and the CPU cycle usage by these apps, plus the fact that there may be swap file activity occurring when many apps are open, could easily result in reduced performance at the same time as the value reported for free system resources drops to a low level. But it is not a cause and effect relationship. Rather reduced performance and low levels of free system resources can often both be effects resulting from one common cause - the heavy application load being placed on the computer. On the other hand, certain applications and sometimes certain types of applications can be known to be "system resource hogs" and so launching one or more of these can reduce the system resources value quite dramatically while at the same time perhaps not having that great an impact on overall computer performance. Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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"Andrew H. Carter (Applied ROT 17 Left, for Email do 17 Right)"
Sounds good. Domestic or Imported? German or Egyptian? Irish. Smithwick's if it is available. If not Guinness will do. Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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