Shoutbox

how is it that i only have 18mb of ram, i should at least have more then that.
and the only programs tht i have open/running are:

Opera
Bit Torrent Client
MSN Messenger 1 of 2
MSN Messenger 2 of 2
Rogers/Yahoo Browser
Messenger Plus!
Messenger Shell
Messenger Discovery
Winamp (in the bar with the clock)


EDIT: plus some system programs, like : svhost, explorer.exe........

If you use XP you can know the amount of memory used by every program. using the task manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del) and editing the columns. Other than that you should allocate some more space for yous page file (virtual memory). Make a big page file in a HD you hardly ever use and that is in the IDE cable of the CD-ROM (so you don't waste bandwidth of the important HDDs.

If you only have one HD ignore the part of choosing one to allocate space

Why don't you have a look at the task list and see what programs are hogging the memory? Then you can close 'em it if bothers you so much.
I don't really think it matters, though... Inactive programs are are automatically swapped to the disk when more memory is needed.

And how can you have 200 megs of RAM? Sure it ain't 256?

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Originally posted by KeyStorm
If you use XP you can know the amount of memory used by every program. using the task manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del) and editing the columns. Other than that you should allocate some more space for yous page file (virtual memory). Make a big page file in a HD you hardly ever use and that is in the IDE cable of the CD-ROM (so you don't waste bandwidth of the important HDDs.

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how do i do that?

well, get to the task manager and select show > used memory (i'm not sure how it is in English so I won't bother to try to translate it directly)
After then you will have the memory used by every running process.

The page file is a bit dangerous thing. It can't be too big and it can't be too small, are you sure you want to try it? (windows usually allocates space automatically )

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Originally posted by KeyStorm
The page file is a bit dangerous thing. It can't be too big and it can't be too small...

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Why not too big? All you're losing is a bit of HDD space, right?

From http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php:
"... There is no downside in having potential space available."

Well, relatively dangerous. You can't put a page file bigger than your free space and if you allocate all your free space you will have some performance problems, slowing down you PC. If it's too small, it will slow down, too.

Not dangerous in the way it could harm anything.