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Memory help
Name: lasalp Date: April 25, 2007 at 12:31:47 Pacific OS: winme CPU/Ram: See Post Product: Rebuit
Comment:
I keep getting errors while trying to open programs up, It says this cant be done because there is not enough memory... Is there anyway to free up memory on your computer? It say i have total physical memory is 383.26 availible PM is 12.46mb total VM is2.0 GB Availible VM is 1.42GB sandy
Name: jboy Date: April 25, 2007 at 14:30:28 Pacific
Reply:
It would be much more helpful if you could relate the specific error messages and circumstances - - for a fact, 384Mb of installed RAM is more than abundant for nearly any version of Windows
"VM" (virtual memory) is not much of a factor, and merely indicates the amount of drive capacity available for the Windows swap file, if needed
"CPU/Ram: See Post"
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Do you have some aversion to the proper completion of the specification fields? (just wondering)
I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter.
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Response Number 2
Name: jam Date: April 25, 2007 at 19:07:19 Pacific
Reply:
You have too much crap running in the background. Run MSCONFIG.
Name: jboy Date: April 25, 2007 at 19:25:11 Pacific
Reply:
Agreed - - but that may be a separate issue, as Windows will normally free up RAM as required by swapping.
Numerous links on fine tuning ME have been posted, as it may benefit a little more from 'tweaking' than most versions
In lieu of actual details, this may be another of those cryptic and abandoned questions that are so popular here
I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter.
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