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  #1  
Old October 15th 05, 07:49 PM
Lil' Dave
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Default Should I increase my RAM?

"Richard" wrote in message
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"Richard" wrote in message
...
Hi. I've got a web authoring program, and page scrolling is terrible,
especially when I add more text on the page I'm authoring. That's when

I'm
only running the web authoring program, nothing else open, like Word, IE
or whatever.

Below is a summary of memory information. My PC set-up is: Win98SE, with
160Mb RAM at 350Mhz.

When I took that memory snapshot below, I had OE, IE, LinkStash (prog.

for
bookmarks) System Information open. Of course, a few programs running

in
System Tray. Nothing dynamic running, like games.

What is Memory Utilization?

What is Available Physical Memory?

Anything there that might relate to the poor scrolling?

Do I have too little RAM?

*****************************
* Memory Report - Summary *
*****************************


General Information
Memory Utilization: 100%
Total Physical Memory: 160 MB (167772160 Bytes)
Available Physical Memory: 312 KB (319488 Bytes)
Page File Capacity: 1889 MB (1980272640 Bytes)
Available Page File capacity: 1712 MB (1795661824 Bytes)
Largest free block: 319 MB (334413824 Bytes)
Swap File pages: 40822
16-Bit USER free percentage: 28%
16-Bit GDI free percentage: 59%


This is the situation with just System Information program running:

General Information
Memory Utilization: 88%
Total Physical Memory: 160 MB (167772160 Bytes)
Available Physical Memory: 31.3 MB (32874496 Bytes)
Page File Capacity: 1889 MB (1980272640 Bytes)
Available Page File capacity: 1747 MB (1831501824 Bytes)
Largest free block: 319 MB (334413824 Bytes)
Swap File pages: 40822
16-Bit USER free percentage: 41%
16-Bit GDI free percentage: 76%



System information program is NOT the only thing running...


  #2  
Old October 15th 05, 08:36 PM
Richard
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Default Should I increase my RAM?

Hi. I've got a web authoring program, and page scrolling is terrible,
especially when I add more text on the page I'm authoring. That's when I'm
only running the web authoring program, nothing else open, like Word, IE
or whatever.

Below is a summary of memory information. My PC set-up is: Win98SE, with
160Mb RAM at 350Mhz.

When I took that memory snapshot below, I had OE, IE, LinkStash (prog. for
bookmarks) System Information open. Of course, a few programs running in
System Tray. Nothing dynamic running, like games.

What is Memory Utilization?

What is Available Physical Memory?

Anything there that might relate to the poor scrolling?

Do I have too little RAM?

*****************************
* Memory Report - Summary *
*****************************


General Information
Memory Utilization: 100%
Total Physical Memory: 160 MB (167772160 Bytes)
Available Physical Memory: 312 KB (319488 Bytes)
Page File Capacity: 1889 MB (1980272640 Bytes)
Available Page File capacity: 1712 MB (1795661824 Bytes)
Largest free block: 319 MB (334413824 Bytes)
Swap File pages: 40822
16-Bit USER free percentage: 28%
16-Bit GDI free percentage: 59%




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Old October 15th 05, 08:42 PM
Richard
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"Richard" wrote in message
...
Hi. I've got a web authoring program, and page scrolling is terrible,
especially when I add more text on the page I'm authoring. That's when I'm
only running the web authoring program, nothing else open, like Word, IE
or whatever.

Below is a summary of memory information. My PC set-up is: Win98SE, with
160Mb RAM at 350Mhz.

When I took that memory snapshot below, I had OE, IE, LinkStash (prog. for
bookmarks) System Information open. Of course, a few programs running in
System Tray. Nothing dynamic running, like games.

What is Memory Utilization?

What is Available Physical Memory?

Anything there that might relate to the poor scrolling?

Do I have too little RAM?

*****************************
* Memory Report - Summary *
*****************************


General Information
Memory Utilization: 100%
Total Physical Memory: 160 MB (167772160 Bytes)
Available Physical Memory: 312 KB (319488 Bytes)
Page File Capacity: 1889 MB (1980272640 Bytes)
Available Page File capacity: 1712 MB (1795661824 Bytes)
Largest free block: 319 MB (334413824 Bytes)
Swap File pages: 40822
16-Bit USER free percentage: 28%
16-Bit GDI free percentage: 59%


This is the situation with just System Information program running:

General Information
Memory Utilization: 88%
Total Physical Memory: 160 MB (167772160 Bytes)
Available Physical Memory: 31.3 MB (32874496 Bytes)
Page File Capacity: 1889 MB (1980272640 Bytes)
Available Page File capacity: 1747 MB (1831501824 Bytes)
Largest free block: 319 MB (334413824 Bytes)
Swap File pages: 40822
16-Bit USER free percentage: 41%
16-Bit GDI free percentage: 76%


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Old October 15th 05, 09:41 PM
Richard G. Harper
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Default Should I increase my RAM?

It looks like your problem is that you have too many programs running,
possibly (probably) background programs that are eating up both memory and
CPU cycles. Use the System Information tool and post back with a list of
startup programs.

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"Richard" wrote in message
...
Hi. I've got a web authoring program, and page scrolling is terrible,
especially when I add more text on the page I'm authoring. That's when I'm
only running the web authoring program, nothing else open, like Word, IE
or whatever.

Below is a summary of memory information. My PC set-up is: Win98SE, with
160Mb RAM at 350Mhz.

When I took that memory snapshot below, I had OE, IE, LinkStash (prog. for
bookmarks) System Information open. Of course, a few programs running in
System Tray. Nothing dynamic running, like games.

What is Memory Utilization?

What is Available Physical Memory?

Anything there that might relate to the poor scrolling?

Do I have too little RAM?

*****************************
* Memory Report - Summary *
*****************************


General Information
Memory Utilization: 100%
Total Physical Memory: 160 MB (167772160 Bytes)
Available Physical Memory: 312 KB (319488 Bytes)
Page File Capacity: 1889 MB (1980272640 Bytes)
Available Page File capacity: 1712 MB (1795661824 Bytes)
Largest free block: 319 MB (334413824 Bytes)
Swap File pages: 40822
16-Bit USER free percentage: 28%
16-Bit GDI free percentage: 59%






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Old October 15th 05, 09:53 PM
Don Phillipson
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Default Should I increase my RAM?

"Richard" wrote in message
...

Hi. I've got a web authoring program, and page scrolling is terrible,
especially when I add more text on the page I'm authoring. That's when I'm
only running the web authoring program, nothing else open, like Word, IE
or whatever. . . . My PC set-up is: Win98SE, with
160Mb RAM at 350Mhz. . . .
Do I have too little RAM?


Well, half of us do not use web authoring apps and the
other half of us do not know which you use, because you
did not tell us. Your quickest solution might be to instal
this app on someone else's PC, same speed (350 MHz i.e.
very slow for 2005) and min. 265 Mb RAM, and see if the
pages scroll fast enough to suit you. You can then decide
if you need a faster CPU as well.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)


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Old October 15th 05, 09:54 PM
Gary S. Terhune
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Default Should I increase my RAM?

While I agree with Lil' Dave and Richard that you most likely have a lot
more running in the background than you think -- or rather, you don't
apparently realize the amount of resources that can be sucked up by "...a
few programs running in System Tray." -- it *could* also be a problem with
the program itself and/or video card.

You're being awfully shy with details. *What* web authoring program? What
brand video card (and how much RAM onboard that card?) What background
(Tray) apps are you running? In particular, what antivirus?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"Richard" wrote in message
...
Hi. I've got a web authoring program, and page scrolling is terrible,
especially when I add more text on the page I'm authoring. That's when I'm
only running the web authoring program, nothing else open, like Word, IE
or whatever.

Below is a summary of memory information. My PC set-up is: Win98SE, with
160Mb RAM at 350Mhz.

When I took that memory snapshot below, I had OE, IE, LinkStash (prog. for
bookmarks) System Information open. Of course, a few programs running in
System Tray. Nothing dynamic running, like games.

What is Memory Utilization?

What is Available Physical Memory?

Anything there that might relate to the poor scrolling?

Do I have too little RAM?

*****************************
* Memory Report - Summary *
*****************************


General Information
Memory Utilization: 100%
Total Physical Memory: 160 MB (167772160 Bytes)
Available Physical Memory: 312 KB (319488 Bytes)
Page File Capacity: 1889 MB (1980272640 Bytes)
Available Page File capacity: 1712 MB (1795661824 Bytes)
Largest free block: 319 MB (334413824 Bytes)
Swap File pages: 40822
16-Bit USER free percentage: 28%
16-Bit GDI free percentage: 59%






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Old October 15th 05, 10:05 PM
Cymbal Man Freq.
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Default Should I increase my RAM?

"Lil' Dave" wrote in message

General Information
Memory Utilization: 100%
Total Physical Memory: 160 MB (167772160 Bytes)
Available Physical Memory: 312 KB (319488 Bytes)
Page File Capacity: 1889 MB (1980272640 Bytes)
Available Page File capacity: 1712 MB (1795661824 Bytes)
Largest free block: 319 MB (334413824 Bytes)
Swap File pages: 40822
16-Bit USER free percentage: 28%
16-Bit GDI free percentage: 59%


It looks like you've used up just about 99.805% of your RAM, and then used
another (1889 - 1712 =) 176 MB of swap file. 160 MB + 176 MB = 336 MB used up if
you had the RAM. I would look towards upgrading to either 384 MB or 512 MB of
RAM, preferably 512 MB if possible. If you are trying to impress me about how
well the swap file substitutes for RAM, you've done a whopper of a job there!

Your low USER free percentage probably means that if you open two instances of
Word and try to print, you may have a printer driver failure because you used
your last percentage of resources to run the printer driver, and you'll have to
reboot. Maybe some security software you have is hogging the resources
(firewall, or AV program). It is getting very difficult to find products off the
retail shelf that work on a machine without depleting resources nowadays. The
only way out of that situation, barring replacing the offending programs with
less offensive programs, is to buy a new computer with Windows XP on it. If you
work offline all the time, you could take the internet security software off of
your machine, or just disable it in msconfig. Maybe other items in msconfig
could be unchecked to allow for mure User resources, but the numbers I see here
(above & below) indicates to me that it would be your security software.

Your largest free block of 319 MB seems to me that you need to do a defrag, and
soon. Everytime you boot up, another 10 MB to 20 MB of that is liable to get
used up.



This is the situation with just System Information program running:

General Information
Memory Utilization: 88%
Total Physical Memory: 160 MB (167772160 Bytes)
Available Physical Memory: 31.3 MB (32874496 Bytes)
Page File Capacity: 1889 MB (1980272640 Bytes)
Available Page File capacity: 1747 MB (1831501824 Bytes)
Largest free block: 319 MB (334413824 Bytes)
Swap File pages: 40822
16-Bit USER free percentage: 41%
16-Bit GDI free percentage: 76%



System information program is NOT the only thing running...



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Old October 15th 05, 10:21 PM
Richard
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Okay, so I have Pentium II, with Win98SE, speed 350 Mhz.

I'm running a web authoring program called SiteSpinner.

I've got ATI Xpert98 AGP 2x Video Accelerator Card using Rage Pro Turbo set,
with 8Mb of SDRAM. (3D and 2D video accelerator card).

I think in fact that my computer was much affected when I upgraded from
Norton SystemWorks 2001, to 2005

I think I may have a CPU usage problem more than a video card problem. How
do I pysche out a CPU usage problem?

Ccapp sometimes crashes, and half the time my PC does not shut down.

Below is a list of programs in start-up:


AdSubtract PRO Registry (Per-User Run) "C:\Program Files\AdSubtract
PRO\adsub.exe"

LinkStashMonitor Registry (Per-User Run) "C:\PROGRAM
FILES\LINKSTASH\lsmon.exe"

ANONYMIZER_SPYWAREKILLER Registry (Per-User Run) C:\PROGRAM
FILES\ANONYMIZER\ANTI-SPYWARE\ANONANTISPYWARE.EXE /BOOT

StickyPassword Registry (Per-User Run) C:\PROGRAM
FILES\STICKYPASSWORD\STPASS.EXE

CriticalUpdate Registry (Machine Run)
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\wucrtupd.exe -startup

SystemTray Registry (Machine Run) SysTray.Exe

LoadPowerProfile Registry (Machine Run) Rundll32.exe
powrprof.dll,LoadCurrentPwrScheme

TPP Auto Loader Registry (Machine Run) C:\WINDOWS\TPPALDR.EXE

USBDetector Registry (Machine Run) C:\USBStorage\USBDetector.exe

AtiCwd32 Registry (Machine Run) Aticwd32.exe

AtiKey Registry (Machine Run) Atitask.exe

EM_EXEC Registry (Machine Run) c:\SYSTEM\EM_EXEC.EXE

ScanRegistry Registry (Machine Run) C:\WINDOWS\scanregw.exe /autorun

Tweak UI Registry (Machine Run) RUNDLL32.EXE TWEAKUI.CPL,TweakMeUp

REGSHAVE Registry (Machine Run) C:\Program Files\REGSHAVE\REGSHAVE.EXE
/AUTORUN

Acronis True Image Monitor Registry (Machine Run) "C:\Program
Files\Acronis\TrueImage\TrueImageMonitor.exe"

Acronis Scheduler2 Service Registry (Machine Run) "C:\Program Files\Common
Files\Acronis\Schedule2\schedhlp.exe"

StillImageMonitor Registry (Machine Run) C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\STIMON.EXE

ccApp Registry (Machine Run) "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec
Shared\ccApp.exe"

Symantec Core LC Registry (Machine Run) C:\Program Files\Common
Files\Symantec Shared\CCPD-LC\symlcsvc.exe start

NPROTECT Registry (Machine Run) C:\Program Files\Norton SystemWorks\Norton
Utilities\NPROTECT.EXE

Symantec NetDriver Monitor Registry (Machine Run)
C:\PROGRA~1\SYMNET~1\SNDMON.EXE /Consumer

Zone Labs Client Registry (Machine Run) C:\Program Files\Zone
Labs\ZoneAlarm\zlclient.exe

LoadPowerProfile Registry (Machine Service) Rundll32.exe
powrprof.dll,LoadCurrentPwrScheme

TrueVector Registry (Machine Service)
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ZONELABS\VSMON.EXE -service

Acronis Scheduler2 Service Registry (Machine Service) "C:\Program
Files\Common Files\Acronis\Schedule2\schedul2.exe"

KB891711 Registry (Machine Service) C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KB891711\KB891711.EXE

ccEvtMgr Registry (Machine Service) "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec
Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe"

ccSetMgr Registry (Machine Service) "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec
Shared\ccSetMgr.exe"

SymTray - Norton SystemWorks Registry (Machine Service) C:\Program
Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\SymTray.exe "Norton SystemWorks"

NPFMonitor Registry (Machine Service) C:\Program Files\Norton
SystemWorks\Norton AntiVirus\IWP\NPFMntor.exe

ScriptBlocking Registry (Machine Service) "C:\Program Files\Common
Files\Symantec Shared\Script Blocking\SBServ.exe" -reg

NPROTECT Registry (Machine Service) C:\Program Files\Norton
SystemWorks\Norton Utilities\NPROTECT.EXE

CSINJECT.EXE Registry (Machine Service) C:\Program Files\Norton
SystemWorks\Norton CleanSweep\csinject.exe




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Old October 15th 05, 10:41 PM
Richard
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"Richard" wrote in message
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Okay, so I have Pentium II, with Win98SE, speed 350 Mhz.


Oh, and I've 160Mb RAM.

Do I have a CPU usage problem, AND a RAM problem?


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Old October 15th 05, 10:51 PM
Cymbal Man Freq.
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"Richard" wrote in message

Okay, so I have Pentium II, with Win98SE, speed 350 Mhz.

I'm running a web authoring program called SiteSpinner.

I've got ATI Xpert98 AGP 2x Video Accelerator Card using Rage Pro
Turbo set, with 8Mb of SDRAM. (3D and 2D video accelerator card).

I think in fact that my computer was much affected when I upgraded
from Norton SystemWorks 2001, to 2005

I think I may have a CPU usage problem more than a video card
problem. How do I pysche out a CPU usage problem?

Ccapp sometimes crashes, and half the time my PC does not shut down.


Stop right there. NSW 2005 is your problem. It is bloatware that affects Win Me
machines just as badly. Uninstall the AV portion of NSW from Add/Remove Programs
in Control Panel...you don't have to uninstall ALL of NSW 2005 (upgrades may be
a different matter though, a fresh install of NSW 2005 without the AV portion
will do this right provided you got rid of NSW 2001 properly, yeah right.) You
can download AVG 7 from www.grisoft.com first and then run the application once
the NAV is uninstalled, but turn off your modem during the time you are
replacing the anti-virus programs. This replacing of the AV program is to stop
ccApp from crashing your machine, your resources may not show ANY improvement.
Maybe somebody else knows what else to stop about Norton (besides all of it) to
bring that number up.

What I said before about swap file and lack of RAM will still apply, but NSW
2005 itself tends to use well over 150 MB of RAM.


 




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