freeing up memory??

[MrT]

Total Physical Memory: 128 MB
Free Physical Memory: 50 MB
This is what my system is saying.
How do I free up this memory???
System resources are 94% free??????
Using windows 98
Pentium II 350

[WhoKnowsWho]

Hehe, more used to seeing 0% free since Windows likes to gobble it all up and hand it out like table scraps to programs that want it. All you can really do is prevent things from loading up at startup, all the icons in the lower right are programs loaded. Run msconfig in the run menu and there is a tab for startup... you can select what you want to start and what not to. Also, don't let the computer sit after running stuff day after day, restart every now and again 'cause programs memory leaks and windows has memory leaks.

[Bleeding Edge]

94 percent is very good. If you start some programs and then close them you'll see a higher value of free physical memory.

Don't concern yourself with this. Really.

[BBA]

****... I cant seem to get over 85% free anymore!!

BBA

[LED]

try using the freemem program @ http://www.meikel.com/freemem/

[philipg]

Led,

I had bad luck with that freemem program in my computer. My computer went from top performance to a snail crawl.

NOTE TO EVERYONE:

If you use this program be very careful on what settings you use since this program can make it very difficult for windows to load properly and operate once loaded.


Also Windows uses the first 16MB then will take up to half of the rest for its kernal the rest plus vitual memory is for apps.

But if you don't have enough for windows IE only 32 megs windows uses the 16MB again and sticks the rest in virual memory. It possible to run windows with virtual memory as long as you keep loaded programs to a minimum. With this in mind Windows can run more effiently and prevent system hangs because of harddrive access lag.

[This message has been edited by philipg (edited 06-11-99).]