To Cure those "Win98" is eating my Memory Blues...

[Chaostician]

Try these steps to conserve mem in win9X:

1) Click "start" and go to "Run" and type MSCONFIG. Hit "enter"; when the box comes up go the last tab which is "startup" and disable everything that you don't use on a constant basis...i.e. - I only have Rain, Mobo Monitor, BlackIce and Volume Ctrl. Leave Systray and ScanRegistry in there.

2) Right click on "My computer" and choose "properties". Go to "performance" and then click "virtual Memory". Choose to sepecify virtual memory and set max/min to app. 2.5 times the amount of memory in your system. Click ok. Win9X is terrible at "loosing" track of virtual memory.

3) Same "my computer", "properties" tab. Click on "File System" and change type to "network server". This allocates more cache to CPU usage.

4) This involves "editing" your system.ini file. Click "start" go to "run" and type "system.ini" and hit ok/enter. A note pad comes up; in the notepad 3/4 the way down you'll have an [vcache] with nothing under it, make it look like this:
[vcache]
minfilesize=16384
maxfilesize=16384

Save the entry and exit, reboot and hopefully that fixes some of your problems. Windows will "try" and use all available ram to run itself if you leave it idle.

If you have prob's please reply...

Chaostician
"A quizical Science that even I don't understand"

[Steve R Jones]

To do some serious tweaking, go here:
http://members.aol.com/axcel216/newtip15.htm#FMM

[CMonster]

Steve R. Jones,

Nice link - I have bookmarked it for further study. The homepage of that link has a number of interesting looking items, but I find it a little puzzling for that content to be on an AOL members page - maybe I should make use of my AOL space??

I would just like to remind everyone to be wary in downloading and opening files.

[Chaostician]

Thanks for the link ! I'm about to try the .vbs file for memory; you never know untill you try.

Thanks for the link (But Why AOL !?!?!?)

[BBA]

Good post except the part about vcache size...their is no one set of values that works for all systems. The value should be set to 1/4 the system ram in KB's. So, If you have 64M, 16384 is fine, but if you have only 16M of ram, you just locked up the PC.

[scotter]

there is one other thing the set virual memery to 2.5 times the amount of memery in your system is for old systems with less than 32 meg a better rule is start at 100 meg's of vertual memery and add more only if you need it, or go 2.5 for 32, 2x for 64, 1.5x for 96, 1 x 128, if you are running a lot of very memery intensive app's add a little more, but for the most part you should not need more than 100 megs of Vurtal memery http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by scotter (edited 01-09-2000).]

[jad1097]

Yes that is a great site. I have had it in my favs for a while.
Why AOL? Cause the guy who did the site ISP is most likly AOL.

[Chaostician]

Sorry for the time lapse... Registry died on me and a reinstalled everything! What a way to spend a Sunday afternoon (I've got it down to an artform of only 3hours).

BBA - Thanks for adding that in...sorry, I had not thought of that one http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

scotter - I agree with that, but some cd intesive games tend to use alot of that space. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Thanks for the tips... Gentlemen, take a bow.