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Article #14Re: Running out of memory can anyone advise?
From: armina
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 00:00
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Mike Black <mike@manipul8.demon.co.uk> wrote: >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? >With 16Mb of RAM try Windows95. With Netscape, Hotdog, PaintShop Pro and >other WWW utilities all running - out of memory problems, crashes etc >seem to have been banished to history. >Regards >-- >Mike Black Are you double spaced?? it gives you back oodles of room :-) --'Mina-- For everything there is a season and this is the season of What goes around Comes around.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103734,cfec5e181ae6ee40 X-Google-Attributes: gid103734,public X-Google-Thread: fe8f2,cfec5e181ae6ee40 X-Google-Attributes: gidfe8f2,public X-Google-Thread: 1076d4,cfec5e181ae6ee40 X-Google-Attributes: gid1076d4,public X-Google-Thread: 1004db,cfec5e181ae6ee40 X-Google-Attributes: gid1004db,public From: armina@livenet.net Subject: Re: Running out of memory can anyone advise? Date: 1996/07/15 Message-ID: <4sc8a1$kng@PaperBoy.LiveNet.Net> X-Deja-AN: 168363352 references: <8qAklFADAZ4xEwp9@dalton.demon.co.uk> <7nwg3DAILM5xEwQ+@manipul8.demon.co.uk> organization: LiveNet, Inc. newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win3x,comp.windows.misc,comp.windows.x,demon.ip.support