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Old July 24th 04, 12:22 AM
Andrew H. Carter (Applied ROT 17 Left, for Email d
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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.

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Old July 24th 04, 08:55 AM
Ron Martell
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"Andrew H. Carter (Applied ROT 17 Left, for Email do 17 Right)"
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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
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"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."
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Old July 24th 04, 09:04 AM
Ron Martell
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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.


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