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re: how to check 'computer resource'
Sunday, November 11, 2001 at 3:37 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by S. Madsen
(3 messages posted)
Autoworker - thank you for the ans.
what do you mean "you only pay a performance price" Tks.
On Saturday, November 10, 2001 at 5:51 pm, AutoWorker wrote:
>XP, like NT does not use resources the same as windows 3.0 up to me. In 98 you
could
>have a ton of free memory and no resources. It has to do with the way memory is
>managed in 98. In 98 all programs need just a little bit of memory in the first
>1 meg of ram. The measur of that first 1 meg of ram is called the resources. That
>limitation is gone in xp so there is no need to measue somthing that is not there.
> In xp you can measue how much ram is still free, but even that is not a major limitation
>since it wil swap out to the hard drive. You only pay a performance price.
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>On Saturday, November 10, 2001 at 5:09 pm, Joe Lagreca wrote:
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>Right click on the taskbar and select Task Manager. It gives pretty good information
>on the resources your computer is using.
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>On Saturday, November 10, 2001 at 11:58 am, S. Madsen wrote:
>Trying how to find the area that will show 'how much resource is being used or
>left'.
> XP is so different than 98. The whole reason I upgraded was to get more resource
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>and now I can't find it. Tks., SM
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