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Hey Marshall,
Just start TaskManager (Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC)
then click on 'Performance'.
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How much RAM you are using is not a good way of determing if you need more. Depending on what you are doing, Windows can use everything thats available, regardless of how much you have.
Performance is the criterial facor for how much RAM you need. There is no hard and fast figure as it depends a lot on what you are doing. I am running XP Prof with 256 Mbs and at the moment have 100 Mbs free. I load up MS Word and that goes down to 80 Mbs. A lot will also depend on your virtual memory and how that is configured.
128 Mbs is the absolute minimum for Windows XP. 256 MBs will make a dramtic improvement and is considered by many to be the minimum. 512 Mbs will be ideal and should cover most eventualities. After the the improvements begin to drop of. Generaly speaking you will only need more than 512 Mbs if you are doing a lot of video editing or other high res graphics work.
Dowload a prgramme call TClock. This will, amongst other things, give you a task bar Icon in the notification area that will tell you how much memory you are using at ang given time.
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Stuart
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the task manager only shows how much page file and % of the cpu you are using. it has nothing to do with RAM. page file is like ram only it is much slower because it is on your hard drive.
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The Task Manager also shows how much RAM you have and are using under "Physical Memory (K)" in kb under the Performance tab.
Tufenuf
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To make it simple....
Right click "My computer" and select properties. At the bottom it will tell you how much RAM you have...you should try to operate at 384+ RAM for most things but 512+ if your doing anything memory intensive like playing online games and such.
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I would be very wary of memeory management programmes like maxmen and freeram under Windows XP.
They may have had their uses under Windows 98, however memory management under Windows XP is completley different. Third party meemory managers can and often do slow Windows XP down. Freeing up apparently unused memory isn't necessary always a good thing.
BTW gebap FreeMem isn't from Google. You use Google to find it.
Stuart
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Thanks for the above information.
I have 512 of RAM, but in the "Physical Memory" is says I have 523760
Why is this ?
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skeck, If you multiply 512 X 1024 you get 524288 which is appx.what you have.
Exact Conversion
1,024 Kilobyte (KB) = 1 Megabyte (MB)
Easy conversion: approximately 1000 KB = 1 MB for files that are usually relatively small.Tufenuf
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