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In article <8qAklFADAZ4xEwp9@dalton.demon.co.uk>, Leanne Mason
<mace@dalton.demon.co.uk> writes
>My computer has Windows 3.1, 16Mb of ram, about 70 Mb of unused hard
>drive and I've used Memmaker to try and manage the memory.
>When I run PhotoFinish to produce gifs or when I am on the www (using
>Turnpike software including Netscape) for any length of time I seem to
>run out of memory. Can anyone suggest why and how it can be corrected.
>If I run MEM at the Dos prompt before starting WindowsI have 13.5 Mb of
>memory free in total. 12.9Mb is XMS. When I start windows, I am left
>with only 1.5Mb in total and only 1024BYTES of XMS. My conclusion is
>that windows is somehow eating up the meoory. But how can there be so
>much "resident" just by running windows?
>Can anyone help?
Thanks to everyone who replied. I still have some problems but I learned
a heck of a lot about memory management through this. I learned that
memory management is not as reliable as it might be and throwing extra
RAM at it will not necessarily cure the problem. I also found a piece of
software (Winmiser) which has helped but not cured the problem. I may
just purchase WinMiser Pro which sounds even better. (I do not work for
the company which produces these programs, but maybe they will send me a
freebie after this plug :)
I may still have to resort to re-formatting my HDD and starting again if
it doesn't cure the problem. Many Tanks to everyone and sorry if I
posted my original message in the wrong group.
Leanne.
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Leanne Mason