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re: videos lagging due to very low space...
Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ron
(35 messages posted)
never thought about having her turn system restore off before. im just gonna tell
her she needs to get a new hard drive or a better pc altogether. thanks richard for
replying and thanks keith for your consistancy :) i appreciate both your help.
On Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 8:13 am, Richard Harris wrote:
>If you need hard drive space to view a video, that is the problem. I mean space
>beyond that needed to store the video file, typically a few tens of Megs for one
>file. (At least that is the size of my downloaded YouTube files.)
>
>For maximum performance, a program and data should fit into RAM, since that is far
>faster than any hard drive. If the RAM is too small, Windows will start using swap
>space on disk, or "virtual" memory.
>
>I once had a win95 PC that stumbled when opening/viewing WORD95 files that contained
>JPG images. I checked the RAM usage and all 16 Meg were being used, and then it
>was then trying to use the virtual memory (hard drive). I could hear the hard drive
>chirping.
>
>I increased the RAM to 80 Meg and the same DOC file loaded and displayed almost
instantaneously.
> However, I could easily make a larger DOC file that caused the problem.
>
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