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Old December 8th 05, 11:20 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.hardware
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Donna wrote:

Is that under system properties/performance?
If so I have 128 MB with 40% free


Forget about 40% free, it is a rather meaningless measure. Once again
remember that unused memory is wasted memory. With 128MB of RAM and an
"in use" swap file hovering around 64MB it is possible that adding 64MB of
RAM might show some small improvement but whether it is worth doing is
perhaps debatable. The Win Me box I have here runs quite very happily
with 128MB of RAM with a copy of Office 2000 installed as well as Corel
WordPerfect and PhotoPaint plus all the usual utilities, etc.
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Mike Maltby


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Old December 8th 05, 11:29 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.hardware
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FWIW, I used to run ME on a 64MB box (150MHz), with Office 98 whizzing away
quite happily, - so long as the files I manipulated weren't much more than
about 3-5MB, and didn't contain large graphics.
It wasn't the speediest thing in the world - but it was rock-solid.

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Donna wrote:

Is that under system properties/performance?
If so I have 128 MB with 40% free


Forget about 40% free, it is a rather meaningless measure. Once again
remember that unused memory is wasted memory. With 128MB of RAM and an
"in use" swap file hovering around 64MB it is possible that adding 64MB of
RAM might show some small improvement but whether it is worth doing is
perhaps debatable. The Win Me box I have here runs quite very happily
with 128MB of RAM with a copy of Office 2000 installed as well as Corel
WordPerfect and PhotoPaint plus all the usual utilities, etc.
--
Mike Maltby


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Old December 8th 05, 11:40 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.hardware
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Noel,

The box in question used to only have 64MB of RAM and was always perfectly
happy. I only move it up to 128MB of RAM when I found I had a spare 64MB
stick after recycling some bits from a sick box that was heading for the
dump. :-)
--
Mike


Noel Paton wrote:

FWIW, I used to run ME on a 64MB box (150MHz), with Office 98
whizzing away quite happily, - so long as the files I manipulated
weren't much more than about 3-5MB, and didn't contain large graphics.
It wasn't the speediest thing in the world - but it was rock-solid.


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Old December 9th 05, 04:54 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.hardware
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Ok thanks for your help....
sounds like its fine as it then!



"Mike M" wrote in message
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Donna wrote:

Is that under system properties/performance?
If so I have 128 MB with 40% free


Forget about 40% free, it is a rather meaningless measure. Once again
remember that unused memory is wasted memory. With 128MB of RAM and an
"in use" swap file hovering around 64MB it is possible that adding 64MB of
RAM might show some small improvement but whether it is worth doing is
perhaps debatable. The Win Me box I have here runs quite very happily
with 128MB of RAM with a copy of Office 2000 installed as well as Corel
WordPerfect and PhotoPaint plus all the usual utilities, etc.
--
Mike Maltby


.



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Old December 10th 05, 01:32 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.hardware
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"Mike M" wrote:

Donna wrote:

Is that under system properties/performance?
If so I have 128 MB with 40% free


Forget about 40% free, it is a rather meaningless measure. Once again
remember that unused memory is wasted memory. With 128MB of RAM and an
"in use" swap file hovering around 64MB it is possible that adding 64MB of
RAM might show some small improvement but whether it is worth doing is
perhaps debatable. The Win Me box I have here runs quite very happily
with 128MB of RAM with a copy of Office 2000 installed as well as Corel
WordPerfect and PhotoPaint plus all the usual utilities, etc.


I think that adding more RAM might prove to be more than just a
"small" improvement. I have noticed fairly significant gains on a
number of systems running Windows Me when the RAM was increased from
128 to 256 mb.

With over 60 mb of "Swap file in use" my recommendation would be to
add more RAM.

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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Old December 10th 05, 11:29 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.hardware
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In ,
Ron Martell had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

"Mike M" wrote:

Donna wrote:

Is that under system properties/performance?
If so I have 128 MB with 40% free


Forget about 40% free, it is a rather meaningless measure. Once
again remember that unused memory is wasted memory. With 128MB of
RAM and an "in use" swap file hovering around 64MB it is possible
that adding 64MB of RAM might show some small improvement but
whether it is worth doing is perhaps debatable. The Win Me box I
have here runs quite very happily with 128MB of RAM with a copy of
Office 2000 installed as well as Corel WordPerfect and PhotoPaint
plus all the usual utilities, etc.


I think that adding more RAM might prove to be more than just a
"small" improvement. I have noticed fairly significant gains on a
number of systems running Windows Me when the RAM was increased from
128 to 256 mb.

With over 60 mb of "Swap file in use" my recommendation would be to
add more RAM.

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada


While I agree - and I do - that additional RAM will certainly improve the
situation the main point and a part I think we all (even me) forgets is that
RAM not in use is truly being wasted and if it wasn't then the various RAM
compacting tools would be viable. I wish - like a mad man - I could get a
couple of GB of RAM fully in use at NORMAL operation time in XP for
instance. It gets at about 70% and never seems to want to go beyond that. I
get, even with a dual CPU system, 100% CPU first. It makes no sense now nor
then. However the it's good to hear that any RAM not in use is really of no
value. (Of course if the system can and will use it then there's nothing
better and I'd trade a CPU upgrade - back then - for a RAM upgrade any day.
More RAM is almost always better.)


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Old December 11th 05, 01:54 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.hardware
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Mike M wrote:

Noel,

The box in questionthat'sts to only have 64MB of RAM and was always

perfectly
happy. I only move it up tpreferr of RAM when I found I had a spare 64MB
stick after recycling some bits from a sick box that was heading for the
dump. :-)


I would mention that while more Ram is good if that's what is needed, its
also the speed of the ram and if its buffered or not etc.. I perfer say 2
256mb modules over 1 512mb module but it depends on the ram etc..
 




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