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How Can I Free Up Memory?
Name: Bruce Date: July 3, 1999 at 22:42:12 Pacific
Comment:
I have a Pentium 166Mhz, 2G HD(800Meg Free), 96Meg Ram and am running Win98. I also have installed Norton System Works 2.0 which allows me to monitor how much memory load (RAM) and physical memory I have available at any given time. The memory load always seems to run around 73-85% without any programs opened. If programs are opened it reaches 100%, which then slows things down. I would have thought that 96Meg of RAM would give me some cushion room. I don't have more than 1-2 programs opened at any given time. Could someone please tell me what I might be able to do to free up more memory? Thanks, Bruce
Name: katie Date: July 3, 1999 at 23:22:17 Pacific
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I have the same prob and am running win98 and norton with 64 ram...I think win98 does not recover ram properly and think norton is causing other conflicts with 98 in my system. Ramboost, a freeware download for zdnet has helped me to run programs which had previously refused to run because there was not enough system resources! Think 98 just gobbles memory!!
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Response Number 2
Name: TheGorx Date: July 4, 1999 at 03:32:25 Pacific
Name: Paula Date: July 9, 1999 at 21:50:53 Pacific
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I "uninstalled" some of the many miscellaneous small programs I never use; i.e., silly games, label and greeting card programs. I also delete .tmp (temporary) files, "history" files under "communicator" on the internet, "trash" files on my e-mail. Also, if you've been working in a program for quite a while, shut it down and restart your computer. You will find that your program runs faster again.
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Response Number 5
Name: Rich Date: April 1, 2000 at 04:44:40 Pacific
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Their are several programs to fix all of your problems... 1 being RAMFIX and another is QEMM. You could also use memory compression software like RamDoubler and stuff like that to free memory. What I want to know is how to booost conventional memory to play dos games that require it in win98.
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Response Number 6
Name: Tschakah Date: April 2, 2000 at 08:25:05 Pacific
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What about putting this into your system.ini: [vcache] MinFileCache=4096 MaxFileCache=4096
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