Performance low

Walter,

I feel there must be seriously wrong with your system is you have 82% RAM
available as Win Me has an excellent memory manager and should be able to
find a use for every byte of available RAM. Unused RAM is nothing more
than wasted RAM.

Are you perhaps confusing free RAM (how measured) with Resources? If so
60-70% free resources is no problem at all. You only need to start
getting worried and to have to close down applications when resources
start to drop below 10%.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP




Walter.vb wrote:

Have Win ME and 128 MB RAM.
When I start my PC, about 82% of RAM is available.
After starting and closing Outlook Express, Internet Explores, Kazaa,
... , only 60 to 70% remains.
Is this normal ? And how can I bring it back to normal value ?
Thanks for answers and suggestions.

Indeed, I mentioned RAM but the low results are concerning the System
Resources. Sorry ! (I couldn't find the wright translation from my dutch
text).
I have another problem : the option Disable System Restore is activated, and
all attempts to desactivate are failing. Do I have to reinstall Win ME, are
do you know an easiar way to resolve this problem ?
Walter.

"Mike M" schreef in bericht
...
Walter,

I feel there must be seriously wrong with your system is you have 82% RAM
available as Win Me has an excellent memory manager and should be able to
find a use for every byte of available RAM. Unused RAM is nothing more
than wasted RAM.

Are you perhaps confusing free RAM (how measured) with Resources? If so
60-70% free resources is no problem at all. You only need to start
getting worried and to have to close down applications when resources
start to drop below 10%.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP




Walter.vb wrote:

Have Win ME and 128 MB RAM.
When I start my PC, about 82% of RAM is available.
After starting and closing Outlook Express, Internet Explores, Kazaa,
... , only 60 to 70% remains.
Is this normal ? And how can I bring it back to normal value ?
Thanks for answers and suggestions.

Walter,

Understood. Hopefully what follows will help you with your system restore
problem.

If you cannot uncheck the disable SR entry found at System | Performance |
File System | Troubleshooting check the following:
Do you have at least 300MB of free space on the drive containing your
windows folder?
Is the *StateMgr entry still present and checked in MSConfig | Startup?
Is stmgr.exe running? You can check this using either a process monitor
such as WinTop or TaskInfo or by using MSInfo32 (Start | Help & Support |
System Information) and checking for stmgr.exe in the section Software
Environment | Running Tasks.

If all of the above are OK then I think that the best way forward would be
to remove the _RESTORE folder and allow the state manager to rebuild the
necessary control files which have probably become corrupted. Delete the
folder as follows:
a) Boot to DOS using a floppy. Do NOT choose "Minimal Boot" from the menu
when booting from a floppy but rather choose "Start computer with (or
without) CD-ROM support" otherwise the ATTRIB command will not be
available.
b) At the DOS A:\ prompt, type:

ATTRIB -H -S -R C:\_RESTORE
then
REN C:\_RESTORE OLDREST

c) Remove the floppy
d) Reboot your PC
e) Delete the folder C:\OLDREST
f) Check that an automatic system restore checkpoint was created.
g) Finally adjust the space allocated to the restore folder:
System | Performance | File System | Hard Disk and adjust the restore
slider to your preferred setting. A figure of 200MB is normally more
than adequate for day to day use allowing perhaps a week of checkpoints to
be available although increasing this to perhaps 400MB for a few days
during periods of large installs such Microsoft Office is advisable.

It might now be a good time to test that system restore is working
correctly. You can do this by performing the following test.
a) Create a shortcut on your desktop to a file.
b) Create a manual checkpoint
Could you create a checkpoint?
c) Delete the shortcut
d) Restore your PC to the checkpoint you created.
Was the shortcut restored? Did you see any error messages?
e) Reboot your PC
Was the checkpoint retained?
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Walter.vb wrote:

Indeed, I mentioned RAM but the low results are concerning the System
Resources. Sorry ! (I couldn't find the wright translation from my
dutch text).
I have another problem : the option Disable System Restore is
activated, and all attempts to desactivate are failing. Do I have to
reinstall Win ME, are do you know an easiar way to resolve this
problem ?

Walter.vb wrote:
Have Win ME and 128 MB RAM.
When I start my PC, about 82% of RAM is available.
After starting and closing Outlook Express, Internet Explores, Kazaa, ... ,
only 60 to 70% remains.
Is this normal ? And how can I bring it back to normal value ?
Thanks for answers and suggestions.

Walter

Try putting the line

MEMORY_WASTING = OFF

into your config.sys file. I've experienced quite a performance boost
through this. Aditionally, the line

BUGS = OFF

seems to solve a couple of issues with Windows.

HTHH,
mik

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Bottom-Top Programming gets you where you never wanted to go.

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sleep((sleep.normal_time - 5h)); eat(mode=fast); pc_mainloop()

Mike,
Thanks for your prompt reply.
I checked MSCONFIG, and the STATEMGR was desactivated (probably I did this
in an attempt to increase the famous SystemResources).
Activating the StateMgr allowed me indeed to uncheck the option Disable
System Restore. Thank you for the correct advice.

Walter


"Mike M" schreef in bericht
...
Walter,

Understood. Hopefully what follows will help you with your system restore
problem.

If you cannot uncheck the disable SR entry found at System | Performance |
File System | Troubleshooting check the following:
Do you have at least 300MB of free space on the drive containing your
windows folder?
Is the *StateMgr entry still present and checked in MSConfig | Startup?
Is stmgr.exe running? You can check this using either a process monitor
such as WinTop or TaskInfo or by using MSInfo32 (Start | Help & Support |
System Information) and checking for stmgr.exe in the section Software
Environment | Running Tasks.

If all of the above are OK then I think that the best way forward would be
to remove the _RESTORE folder and allow the state manager to rebuild the
necessary control files which have probably become corrupted. Delete the
folder as follows:
a) Boot to DOS using a floppy. Do NOT choose "Minimal Boot" from the menu
when booting from a floppy but rather choose "Start computer with (or
without) CD-ROM support" otherwise the ATTRIB command will not be
available.
b) At the DOS A:\ prompt, type:

ATTRIB -H -S -R C:\_RESTORE
then
REN C:\_RESTORE OLDREST

c) Remove the floppy
d) Reboot your PC
e) Delete the folder C:\OLDREST
f) Check that an automatic system restore checkpoint was created.
g) Finally adjust the space allocated to the restore folder:
System | Performance | File System | Hard Disk and adjust the restore
slider to your preferred setting. A figure of 200MB is normally more
than adequate for day to day use allowing perhaps a week of checkpoints to
be available although increasing this to perhaps 400MB for a few days
during periods of large installs such Microsoft Office is advisable.

It might now be a good time to test that system restore is working
correctly. You can do this by performing the following test.
a) Create a shortcut on your desktop to a file.
b) Create a manual checkpoint
Could you create a checkpoint?
c) Delete the shortcut
d) Restore your PC to the checkpoint you created.
Was the shortcut restored? Did you see any error messages?
e) Reboot your PC
Was the checkpoint retained?
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Walter.vb wrote:

Indeed, I mentioned RAM but the low results are concerning the System
Resources. Sorry ! (I couldn't find the wright translation from my
dutch text).
I have another problem : the option Disable System Restore is
activated, and all attempts to desactivate are failing. Do I have to
reinstall Win ME, are do you know an easiar way to resolve this
problem ?

Walter,

Thanks for the feedback. I'm pleased to read that you've now found out why
system restore was disabled and now have it working as intended.

Regards,
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Walter.vb wrote:

Mike,
Thanks for your prompt reply.
I checked MSCONFIG, and the STATEMGR was desactivated (probably I did
this in an attempt to increase the famous SystemResources).
Activating the StateMgr allowed me indeed to uncheck the option
Disable System Restore. Thank you for the correct advice.

I assume you know these "switches" are meaningless?

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"Mario Berger" wrote in message
...

Try putting the line

MEMORY_WASTING = OFF

into your config.sys file. I've experienced quite a performance boost
through this. Aditionally, the line

BUGS = OFF

seems to solve a couple of issues with Windows.