can i delete all wallpaper option and screensavers to save memory.

[bigslammer]

already took out any unwanted fonts and was wondering if taking out all the wallpaper and screensaver would save me some memory during this memory craze.

[NuovoTech]

Suppose it would...delete all *.bmp files
known to be wallpaper from windows directory.
Get rid of screensavers in Add/Remove Windows
Setup tab...

[johnpaul]

Screen savers can be memory hogs, but wallpaper is simply a bitmap file, right? That can't use much space.

JP

[Brian48]

That depends on the size of the .bmp file you're using. If you're using a huge, 32bit color .bmp file you've downloaded off the net, it's not uncommon for the wallpaper to suck up as much as 3mb or more of memory. I try to keep mine down to 500k or less and around 256 color if I can help it.

[DavidX]

It may save some memory not to use wallpapers/screensavers but it does make the PC kinda boring without them, doesn't it? Cheesh! Just how desperate for memory are you? /forum/wink.gif I remember using both on a 120MHz Pentium with 16Mb RAM. Seemed fine then. Now that 32, 64 or 128Mb RAM are common, they should be even less of a problem!

I guess it all depends on how much RAM you have and just what applications you need to run.

[chuckiechan]

Before you dismantle your eye candy files, why don't you download a copy of "Freemem" from Sysopt.com. I think it may be a more objective way to determine your memory useage. The free-ware version is manual and you have to push the button to free up your memory so you can see what you are doing as you experiment.

Hope this helps....