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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. |
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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. |
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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 ? |
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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 -- Top-Bottom Programming never gets you where you wanted to go. Bottom-Top Programming gets you where you never wanted to go. while not life: sleep((sleep.normal_time - 5h)); eat(mode=fast); pc_mainloop() |
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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 ? |
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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. |
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I assume you know these "switches" are meaningless?
-- Richard G. Harper [MVP Win9x] * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups * for the benefit of all. Private mail is usually not replied to. * HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "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. |
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