From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Mon Jul 19 1999 - 19:19:25 EDT
HAH..
lotsa questions, little time, but here goes with fast answers..
J. Williams wrote:
> Hi, I have a few questions:
>
> I currently have a 770ED with 64meg of Ram with the standard Win 95 OSR2.
>
> What exactly is System Resouces?
all of the above and below..usually IRQ's are a part of resources..
but it gets more involved than that..
some misbehaved apps will "take" memory, and when they are terminated, they
don't release the memory back to the "pool" of available memory..
so, your resources can slowly evaporate throughout the day..
IRQ's OTH are fixed and the 770ED will want all of them..
then newer the OS, the better it should handle sharing IRQ's..
> Is this directly related to Ram?
yes and no..see below..
> I tend to have multiple applications open at once. Sytems Resouces tend to
> get
> low after a while. Would more Ram help this?
>
yes, maybe..depends upon which apps you are running..
basically, more memory is GOOD..! :-)
> I am interested in upgrading my Ram with a 128meg DIMM. I see that
> Kingston has these priced lower than most. Why the great difference in
> price among suppliers? I thought I saw something about 256meg cards; can
> these be used in the Thinkpad?
>
no 256 meg parts for the 770..arcitecture does not support it and there are no
chips, yes, for notebook memory..
> I changed Windows to set my own Virtual Memory setttings. I didn't have
> enough room on my C drive, so I moved the swap file to D drive and set it
> to be fixed at 160meg. Is there any problem having this file on a drive
> other than C.
>
no..you can ALSO max the memory and make a RAM drive..
much fgaster than a HDD..
(i've not done this and have heard of no one doing this.. yet..)
> What is Vcache? I read about changing this but it's function isn't clear
> to me? Do I need to worry about this and, if so, how should it be changed?
> Is it different in Win 98 or Win 2000?
>
i'm not sure either..
> Is there an easy way to manage start-up applications. I have some in the
> system tray that I might want to disable.
>
theres a little known appled hiding in your C:\Windows directory..its called
MSCONFIG.EXE..
that will help with the systray a bit..
> Do I need to change OS's to account for Y2K? How about USB? Does it make
> more sense to get Win 98SE or just Win 98? Do they need more memory than
> 95?
>
YIKES..!!uhh..
maybe (if you are running win95 still), USB is a port in the back, yes, MORE
is GOOD..!!
:-)
> Also, how about Win 2000?
what about it.. ?
> When is coming out?
spring 2002..
> Any advantages over Win
> 98?
yes..
> If it doesn't crash as much I would be more interested in it than Win
> 98.
>
Yae, verilly, brother, so would we all..BUT, lots of that crashing can be
attributed to rogue apps and misbehaved drivers and the like..
ALWAYS keep the bios up to date..
and the rest of the usual suspects..
> Thanks, John
BTW: the 128meg memory part just came down a bit..
though i have not had the time to update my web site, so that kingston is
either at market or probably higher..
i won't post prices here since this is not a marketing venue.. :-)
unless someone askes me to do so..
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