Re: Running out of memory can anyone advise?

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From: Dennis Duke
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 00:00

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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?

Try "Fix1MB" by Matt Pietrek - CIS: 71774,362
It fixed most of my  memory problems.
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From: kb4xn@amsat.org (Dennis Duke)
Subject: Re: Running out of memory can anyone advise?
Date: 1996/07/09
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