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Low available RAm
Name: Paul Date: January 29, 1999 at 03:47:41 Pacific
Comment:
I have recently tried a piece of Freeware called Cacheman which optimises your systems Disk Caching ability. It displays the available RAM and I am dismayed to find that of my 16Mb I have only 20Kb or less free after cold booting into Win95. I suspect this is probably normal for Bloatware such as windows, but can anything be done to free up this memory, or might I have a problem.?
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