[UK-CONTEST] Lacking in memory

[Doug Roberts]

Chris,

I don't see why you have a problem.  I am running Win98SE on a 1GHz 
Athlon machine with 512MB memory.  I run AVG anti-virus, Spybot, Norton 
System Doctor, Zone Alarm on a 'permanent' basis.  In addition to the 
usual Windoze background tasks, there are background programs running to 
monitor my printer and scanner, and also the atomic clock synch.  
RXCluster is running all the time.   I can call up Win-EQF (logging) or 
MixW (digi-modes) whenever I need them (but they are mutually exclusive 
'cos they both want to control the COM: ports).

_On top of_ these 'regulars', I regularly load and run AutoCAD, Word, 
Excel simultaneously when I am working, and even with all this running, 
I can still pull up and use W6ELprop, and Firefox/Thunderbird, or 
IE/Outlook Express for web/e-mail.

It is not true that Win98 doesn't use 512MB memory - it sped up my 
system considerably.  The Norton System Doctor memory meter hovers 
around 23% used at initial start-up, but I have seen it at over 80% when 
things are really humming.  I suggest, instead, that you have a problem 
with your registry and/or swap file.  Norton System Works - Optimisation 
Wizard will sort out both - I usually run that when things slow down 
appreciably!

73,
Doug G0WMW

G3SJJ wrote:

>Exactly what my wife keeps telling me as well as my computer! Hopefully some
>of you whizz kids can offer some words of comfort.
>
>I run VE7CC's AR Telnet software and it appears to use a lot of memory with
>all the incoming spots. Typically when I run my general logging program,
>Logger 32 and also have MS Outlook running as well, if I try to open a new
>e-mail I can't and get a message about insufficient memory. (Isn't
>interesting how these things follow real life?!!)
>
>So today I installed a second memory DIMM (what an apt name.) Now I have 2
>lots of 256MB. Checking with System/Properties, it confirms 512MB RAM. I am
>now finding that generally things have sharpened up a bit, but "out of
>memory" messages seem to be appearing more often rather than less.
>
>Is there anything I need to do?  The machine is a home built 1.2GHz, Win
>98SE.
>
>Chris G3SJJ
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