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Old July 6th 04, 03:43 AM
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Default Memory/Hard drive space problem?

I have an eMachine 433i that has a 96 mg memory and a 4 gig hard drive
.. When I go to My computer and look at Properties for the C: drive,
it shows that I have almost 600 mg of vacant space. However,
sometimes when I get on the internet and listen to a web radio
program, or watch a streaming video on a web site, the computer will
start slowing down and almost freeze. If I attempt to clear out the
Temporary files, a window will appear and say that I do not have
enough space to load the program.
Can someone tell me what's going on and how I can get around this
problem? Is it a memory problem? Any help will be appreciated.
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Old July 6th 04, 05:38 AM
Ron Badour
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Default Memory/Hard drive space problem?

Monitor the size of your swap file before and during your radio/video
activities and see if the swap file increases in size where you have little
or no free space left. You can use sysmon.exe to monitor it,

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Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
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Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo

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I have an eMachine 433i that has a 96 mg memory and a 4 gig hard drive
. When I go to My computer and look at Properties for the C: drive,
it shows that I have almost 600 mg of vacant space. However,
sometimes when I get on the internet and listen to a web radio
program, or watch a streaming video on a web site, the computer will
start slowing down and almost freeze. If I attempt to clear out the
Temporary files, a window will appear and say that I do not have
enough space to load the program.
Can someone tell me what's going on and how I can get around this
problem? Is it a memory problem? Any help will be appreciated.



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Old July 6th 04, 02:59 PM
Eric
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Default Memory/Hard drive space problem?

You have an emachine with 96MB of RAM, but it will have an
onboard video chip (on the motherboard) that uses system
RAM. It could be set to use as much as 32MB.

Check in the BIOS setup program by pressing the entry key
specified to enter SETUP on the startup screen. You should
be able to see how much RAM is set to be shared by the
video chip.

You can try lowering it, or adding more RAM, because that
site is using RAM to load the video into, probably so that
it doesn't leave a copy on your hard drive.

Next time get a proper computer, not an emachine.

Eric,
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/
http://www.sharedbirthday.co.uk/



-----Original Message-----
I have an eMachine 433i that has a 96 mg memory and a 4

gig hard drive
.. When I go to My computer and look at Properties for

the C: drive,
it shows that I have almost 600 mg of vacant space. However,
sometimes when I get on the internet and listen to a web radio
program, or watch a streaming video on a web site, the

computer will
start slowing down and almost freeze. If I attempt to

clear out the
Temporary files, a window will appear and say that I do

not have
enough space to load the program.
Can someone tell me what's going on and how I can get

around this
problem? Is it a memory problem? Any help will be

appreciated.
.

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Old July 6th 04, 05:30 PM
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Default Memory/Hard drive space problem?

Thanks for the response. When I display the swap file it, it shows
with a max scale of 244m. When watching video or listening to radion,
it pops up to 122 and stays there until I go back to non video/radio
mode. At 122 it straight lines as though it is at the max level.
Does that mean that the swap file is only 122? If so, why does it
show on a 244 scale? Any further help will be appreciated.

On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 23:38:37 -0500, "Ron Badour"
wrote:

Monitor the size of your swap file before and during your radio/video
activities and see if the swap file increases in size where you have little
or no free space left. You can use sysmon.exe to monitor it,

--
Regards

Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo

wrote in message
...
I have an eMachine 433i that has a 96 mg memory and a 4 gig hard drive
. When I go to My computer and look at Properties for the C: drive,
it shows that I have almost 600 mg of vacant space. However,
sometimes when I get on the internet and listen to a web radio
program, or watch a streaming video on a web site, the computer will
start slowing down and almost freeze. If I attempt to clear out the
Temporary files, a window will appear and say that I do not have
enough space to load the program.
Can someone tell me what's going on and how I can get around this
problem? Is it a memory problem? Any help will be appreciated.




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Old July 7th 04, 12:18 AM
Ron Badour
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Default Memory/Hard drive space problem?

I believe the W98 memory manager creates a swap file size that is based on
what you have running at setup. If you then used it all, the memory manager
would make the swap file bigger. It doesn't sound like the swap file is
eating all the space based on your observation. I assume you watched the
swap file size until the machine started to slow down. When it starts to
slow down, check the properties again and see how much space is left and see
if it is indeed out of space. 600 mb is not much hard drive space
considering today's software and the processes that run.
--
Regards

Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo

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Thanks for the response. When I display the swap file it, it shows
with a max scale of 244m. When watching video or listening to radion,
it pops up to 122 and stays there until I go back to non video/radio
mode. At 122 it straight lines as though it is at the max level.
Does that mean that the swap file is only 122? If so, why does it
show on a 244 scale? Any further help will be appreciated.

On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 23:38:37 -0500, "Ron Badour"
wrote:

Monitor the size of your swap file before and during your radio/video
activities and see if the swap file increases in size where you have

little
or no free space left. You can use sysmon.exe to monitor it,

--
Regards

Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo

wrote in message
...
I have an eMachine 433i that has a 96 mg memory and a 4 gig hard drive
. When I go to My computer and look at Properties for the C: drive,
it shows that I have almost 600 mg of vacant space. However,
sometimes when I get on the internet and listen to a web radio
program, or watch a streaming video on a web site, the computer will
start slowing down and almost freeze. If I attempt to clear out the
Temporary files, a window will appear and say that I do not have
enough space to load the program.
Can someone tell me what's going on and how I can get around this
problem? Is it a memory problem? Any help will be appreciated.






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Old July 7th 04, 09:42 PM
PCR
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Default Memory/Hard drive space problem?

Here is another investigative tool...

WinTop will show as many tasks running as "START, Run, MSInfo32,
Software Environment, Running Tasks", which is twice as many as
Ctrl-Alt-Del. Microsoft's WinTop works in Win98, though written for
Win95. It shows individual CPU & RAM usage figures & updates it's
display every 2 seconds. Get WinTop from
http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/d.../w95kerneltoy/
Download it into a folder of it's own. It's a single executable called
"W95KRNLTOYS.EXE". When you click it, it will unzip and reveal many
applications. All of them are a danger to Win98, except WinTop; delete
them. You will be left with:

W95KRNLTOYS.EXE
WINTOP.INF
WINTOP.TXT
WINTOP.VXD
WINTOP.EXE

You R-Clk WINTOP.INF & select "Install". Click OK to the requestor
stating that a disk is required. Another requestor will appear & allow
you to locate the folder that has the files listed above. WinTop.exe
will be copied to C:\Windows. You may go there, R-Clk it, point to "Send
To" & create a shortcut on the Desktop. Click it to execute. Otherwise,
"START, Run, WinTop".


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

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| Thanks for the response. When I display the swap file it, it shows
| with a max scale of 244m. When watching video or listening to radion,
| it pops up to 122 and stays there until I go back to non video/radio
| mode. At 122 it straight lines as though it is at the max level.
| Does that mean that the swap file is only 122? If so, why does it
| show on a 244 scale? Any further help will be appreciated.
|
| On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 23:38:37 -0500, "Ron Badour"
| wrote:
|
| Monitor the size of your swap file before and during your radio/video
| activities and see if the swap file increases in size where you have
little
| or no free space left. You can use sysmon.exe to monitor it,
|
| --
| Regards
|
| Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
| Tips:
http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
| Knowledge Base Info:
| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo
|
| wrote in message
| ...
| I have an eMachine 433i that has a 96 mg memory and a 4 gig hard
drive
| . When I go to My computer and look at Properties for the C:
drive,
| it shows that I have almost 600 mg of vacant space. However,
| sometimes when I get on the internet and listen to a web radio
| program, or watch a streaming video on a web site, the computer
will
| start slowing down and almost freeze. If I attempt to clear out
the
| Temporary files, a window will appear and say that I do not have
| enough space to load the program.
| Can someone tell me what's going on and how I can get around this
| problem? Is it a memory problem? Any help will be appreciated.
|
|
|


 




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