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The usual rubbish
Wednesday, April 10, 2002 at 3:27 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Paul D
(2162 messages posted)
Your whole reply is built around the premise that resources
and RAM are the same thing. This is just not true.Resources are a fixed
area of memory, and the total size of that area remains the same regardless of how
much RAM you have installed. Desktop icons use resources, but no more so than having
them on the taskbar - it's still part of the GUI, which is what resources are largely
for. Windows 98 should run OK with 192mb of RAM (182 is an impossible number -
RAM comes in multiples of 8) Here are a couple of Knowledge Base articles about
resources:-
Free
System Resources Do Not Return to Previous Value (Q146418)
System
Resources Decrease After Starting and Quitting a Program (Q185832)
On Wednesday, April 10, 2002 at 4:18 am, E wrote:
>Hello Jennifer, Well the real answer from an engineers point of view is, especially
if your computer is like my friend's 98se, with insufficient RAM, and that is because
of the content of html web-pages and file sizes these days, so the more RAM ... AND
video memory, (16 or 32Mb) you have the better really, but there is another way,
and that is to use the Opera 6.01 browser which does use less system resources, as
it appears to handle it in a different way and which is easy to empty of temporary
files, cookies ... (which take up RAM) (Desktop icons also take up RAM, (I have three,
the rest are now on the start bar, something which is really easy to do ) .........
and history and come straight back on-line, which is what I do, as I find that IE
freezes after just a short time on-line depending on the web-page content. Good surfing
and have a nice one. I am still running fine at 43% sys.res. (i.e. 43% of 256Mb
= 110.08Mb : 60% 182Mb = 109.2Mb so you are just about at a standstill. If you can
set your browser to open in only ONE window as keeping the data for rapid changes
from one window to another by keeping several windows open at the same time just
drains resources for no particular purpose. Or it could be something else as well,
such as spyware, according to MCA, which has cause my IE to crash several times.
>Ian. (E) Marine Engineer.
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