[dba-Tech] Laptop should run faster

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Mon Jan 3 14:58:12 CST 2005


On 3 Jan 2005 at 9:12, John W. Colby wrote:

> 512 mb should indeed be enough.  Unfortunately it just isn't anymore.  I
> haven't figured out exactly why but WinXP just sucks up memory.  As an
> example right now I have open WinXP, Outlook and Firefox with a single tab.
> Of course I have Norton AV and Sygate firewall as well (this is my laptop).
> Oh, and Folding at Home is loaded and processing a large work unit (100mb),
> Yahoo and Messenger (which I don't use much but can't seem to get rid of).
> 
> I have 1.25 gb ram (a 256m dimm and a 1 g dimm).  Task manager shows 1.3 g
> total ram with 700g free.  That means that 600g is being used.  For what?

Click on the Processes tab in Task Manager and you will see exactly what is 
using it.

-- 
Stuart





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