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re: How to speed up my PC Tuesday, February 28, 2006 at 2:24 am Posted by Fred (116 messages posted) I seems you do most things right. Now, have you experienced a slowdown lately or did you PC always run slow (with newer applications)? Does your problem apply to 98 and XP alike? I'd say 96MB is not much, even if you are not gaming. Check the system requirement for the programs you are using (if you have the manual) to get the idea. Since you are not sure about the hardware, I recommed that you download and install (and run) the free version of Everest. It is discontinued, but the latest (last) free version (2.20) can be downloaded from www.softpedia.com for example. Then you can also find other information such as make and model your motherboard which will be useful if you are going to upgrade Ram and/or CPU. /Fred On Monday, February 27, 2006 at 10:37 pm, Senthil wrote: >Respected Sir/Madam, > > I've a Dual Boot in my PC(Win98 & Win XP) and few applications such as (Adobe >Photoshop,Flash,Dreamweaver,Msoffice,Winamp and some applications ) > >Note: NO Games. > > Once in a week ,i'm doing a Disk Defragmentation ,Scandisk,Disk cleanup Process >and Removing some Temporary files . Eventhough ,i did these process, my PC is in >the same state (i.e) slower when opening the applications and processing.More precise >to say, when Multitasking/MultiProgramming. > >Components that i've: > >Name of the PC is (AMD Athalon Processor,HCL Ezebee) > >1)96MB RAM >2)40GB HDD >3)Processor speed1.4GHz(I'm not be sure about the speed) > >could you please send me the solution for >1)what could be the Reason for that delay ? >2)Whether i've to update my PC by installing Greater MB RAM/Processor 96MB RAM is >enough? > >Please send me the solution to my above email id > [Reply or follow-up to this message] How to speed up my PC Tuesday, February 28, 2006 at 4:12 am Posted by Cam (4178 messages posted) XP INFO With Windows '98 you can use up to 512 MB of RAM without adding Vcache settings to system.ini 512 MB of RAM is good for XP too but XP Professional can use up to 4 x 1024 MB modules depending on your motherboard. What you can do with a dual boot, for example, is to add as much RAM as you require for XP, let us say 1024 MB, and limit the amount of RAM to be used by Windows '98. With a 1.4 GHz Processor you should definitely consider using more RAM. 96 MB of RAM implies either a 64 MB module plus a 32 MB module or a 128 MB module with 32 MBs used by the video system. If the video memory IS shared and the motherboard has an AGP slot (Accellerated Graphics Port) you would be better off fitting a separate video card with its own memory so that the 32 MB can be returned to use by the system giving the system the full amount of 128 MB for exclusive use. 128 MB is not sufficient for XP, despite what some say to the contrary, and XP will only start to perform better over 512 MB. OPEN OFFICE [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to speed up my PC Tuesday, February 28, 2006 at 4:56 am Posted by Fred (116 messages posted) Is there a different RAM limit for XP home than for XP professional? Also I thought there were nothing greater than 1024MB for RAM modules and no motherboards with more than 4 RAM slots. Hence the XP limit shouldn't matter yet, or I'm not updated on this? Do you know what is the limit would be in Vista? I don't mean to hijack the thread, but I just got curious. /Fred On Tuesday, February 28, 2006 at 4:12 am, Mac wrote: >XP INFO >With Windows '98 you can use up to 512 MB of RAM without adding Vcache settings to >system.ini > >512 MB of RAM is good for XP too but XP Professional can use up to 4 x 1024 MB modules >depending on your motherboard. > >What you can do with a dual boot, for example, is to add as much RAM as you require >for XP, let us say 1024 MB, and limit the amount of RAM to be used by Windows '98. > >With a 1.4 GHz Processor you should definitely consider using more RAM. > >96 MB of RAM implies either a 64 MB module plus a 32 MB module or a 128 MB module >with 32 MBs used by the video system. > >If the video memory IS shared and the motherboard has an AGP slot (Accellerated Graphics >Port) you would be better off fitting a separate video card with its own memory so >that the 32 MB can be returned to use by the system giving the system the full amount >of 128 MB for exclusive use. > >128 MB is not sufficient for XP, despite what some say to the contrary, and XP will >only start to perform better over 512 MB. > OPEN OFFICE [Reply or follow-up to this message] How to speed up my PC Tuesday, February 28, 2006 at 7:02 am Posted by Cam (4178 messages posted) XP INFO I don't know for sure when it comes to XP Home as I have never seen a figure mentioned for it. Here's a list of how much RAM the various Windows versions and editions support (as of Nov 2004): Windows NT 4.0: 4 GB Windows 2000 Professional: 4 GB Windows 2000 Standard Server: 4 GB Windows 2000 Advanced Server: 8GB Windows 2000 Datacenter Server: 32GB Windows XP Professional: 4 GB Windows Server 2003 Web Edition: 2 GB Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition: 4 GB Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition: 32 GB Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition: 64 GB 64-bit Vista should be able to address 16 GB. I personally have never come across RAM modules larger than 1024 MB. As to whether they exist or not I don't know. OPEN OFFICE [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to speed up my PC Wednesday, March 1, 2006 at 10:54 am Posted by gewg_ (3925 messages posted) |I personally have never come across RAM modules larger than 1024 MB. |As to whether they exist or not I don't know. | Mac FYI (this was over a year ago): cache of http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb011105-story05.html +*-*-supplying-16-GB-memory-modules The word *exotic* comes to mind (as does the word *expensive*). [Reply or follow-up to this message] How to speed up my PC Wednesday, March 1, 2006 at 11:20 am Posted by Cam (4178 messages posted) XP INFO Television killed conversation, computers kill the mind. OPEN OFFICE [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to speed up my PC Wednesday, March 1, 2006 at 12:08 pm Posted by Maude (2 messages posted) I run similar apps on Win 98 and they run fine. What size are the partitions on the hard drive? Sometimes things run slowly if the partition is too large. Look up the documentation on this for WIn 98 and XP. If the partitions are too large, re- install at the recommended sizes. XP runs fine with 96MB Also check the size of the swap file. On Monday, February 27, 2006 at 10:37 pm, Senthil wrote: >Respected Sir/Madam, > > I've a Dual Boot in my PC(Win98 & Win XP) and few applications such as (Adobe >Photoshop,Flash,Dreamweaver,Msoffice,Winamp and some applications ) > >Note: NO Games. > > Once in a week ,i'm doing a Disk Defragmentation ,Scandisk,Disk cleanup Process >and Removing some Temporary files . Eventhough ,i did these process, my PC is in >the same state (i.e) slower when opening the applications and processing.More precise >to say, when Multitasking/MultiProgramming. > >Components that i've: > >Name of the PC is (AMD Athalon Processor,HCL Ezebee) > >1)96MB RAM >2)40GB HDD >3)Processor speed1.4GHz(I'm not be sure about the speed) > >could you please send me the solution for >1)what could be the Reason for that delay ? >2)Whether i've to update my PC by installing Greater MB RAM/Processor 96MB RAM is >enough? > >Please send me the solution to my above email id > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to speed up my PC Wednesday, March 1, 2006 at 1:25 pm Posted by gewg_ (3925 messages posted) |XP runs fine with 96MB | Maude Complete rubbish. That doesn't even jive with M$'s overly-optimistic propaganda. The word you are looking for is "barely". minimum+recommended+128-MB+XP [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to speed up my PC Thursday, March 2, 2006 at 5:34 am Posted by Maude (2 messages posted) I wasn't stating theory about XP, but from experience. The question was about running applications on a dual boot. Yahoo was started with 64MB. Thank you for you comment. On Wednesday, March 1, 2006 at 1:25 pm, gewg_ wrote: >|XP runs fine with 96MB >| Maude > >Complete rubbish. >That doesn't even jive with M$'s overly-optimistic propaganda. >The word you are looking for is "barely". >minimum+recommended+128-MB+XP [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum