In my experience, setting a fixed swap in Win9x can actually degrade
performance, especially if the swap is set too large. It already has enough
performance problems. ;). Ymmv.
Glenn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack R Payton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 1:49 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Mystery of the Missing Memory
> Re: HD vs swap file. If you get a couple hundred megs freed on your HD,
> try setting your swap file as a fixed size of 160mb, rather than the
> option of "let windows do it." That will ensure you have the necessary
> swap file space available, and not depend upon getting whatever is left
> over on the partition.
> jack payton
>
> On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 12:29:26 -0400 Glenn Josephson <[log in to unmask]>
> writes:
> > Hi Harry.
> > How full is your hard drive? Windows depends on virtual memory to
> > work,
> > especially when you have multiple applications open. This virtual
> > memory is
> > basically a variable size file thats on your hard drive. Many people
> > are
> > under the mistaken impression that memory is just RAM alone. If
> > you're
> > getting pretty tight on drive space, Windows has less room to swap
> > to VM,
> > and will run out of resources. In fact, if your free space on your
> > HD drops
> > below ~20 megs, Windows may stop working alltogether. When you start
> > up your
> > machine, does the memory check say you have the amount you're
> > supposed to?
> > You can also find this in the BIOS. If not, then you might have a
> > bad memory
> > module. It's possible you might have one anyway, even if the memory
> > count is
> > right. If you can, try swapping the memory module you have with a
> > known good
> > one and see if that solves the problem.
> > Anyway, if you're getting tight on HD space, try getting rid of some
> > stuff
> > so you have at leat ~100 megs free and see if your problem goes
> > away.
> > Glenn
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Harry Winster" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 2:04 AM
> > Subject: [PCBUILD] Mystery of the Missing Memory
> >
> >
> > Mystery of The Missing Memory
> >
> > Firstly let me apologies for the length of the post but I've tried
> > to give
> > as much information as possible and secondly to let you know that I
> > would
> > fall into the category of Newbie.
> >
> > My basic problem seems to be related to computer's memory or its
> > management
> > of the memory.
> >
> > I bought a new computer some time ago (Pentium II - 64 Megs Ram -
> > Windows
> > 95 - 4 gb HD) and after a while I could no longer use the clipboard
> > in my
> > word processing and spreadsheet programs to copy and paste data. In
> > Word
> > Perfect I got a message saying, "Error putting data on windows
> > clipboard"
> > and in Lotus the message read "Error copying data to the clipboard".
> >
> > In addition to this I could no longer drag and drop files in Windows
> > Explorer.
> > I downloaded a utility called Drag and File and I use this in place
> > of
> > Windows explorer and it works just fine.
> >
> > As an experiment I reloaded Lotus but this did not solve the problem
> > within
> > the program.
> >
> > I then tried to reinstall Windows 95 and here my problems really got
> > bigger.
> > One of the problems was that I'd upgraded Outlook Express to version
> > 5 and
> > during the reinstall of Windows 95 my computer became almost as
> > confused as
> > I was.
> >
> > After the reload I no longer had Internet Explorer or Outlook
> > Express
> > available to me. From what I'd read I gathered that there must be a
> > conflict
> > between Windows trying to load the older version of Outlook Express
> > 4 over
> > the remnants of undeleted Outlook Express 5 files. I went through
> > the
> > computer's folders and found a file called "ie20.exe" which looked
> > suspicious so I deleted it { I saved a copy!) and in the next reload
> > of
> > Win95, Internet Explorer and Outlook Express were there.
> >
> > An additional problem now is that when I click on "new Message" or
> > "Reply to
> > sender" etc, in Outlook Express, I get a message from the computer
> > saying
> > "There is not enough memory".
> >
> > I don't know if this is a related problem or a completely different
> > one, but
> > when I click on an embedded link in an e-mail message nothing
> > happens. That
> > is, it does not launch Internet Explorer or take me to the site if I
> > am
> > already on the net.
> >
> >
> > Something else that has just come to my attention, is a memory
> > problem
> > during the unzipping of a compacted file. I tried to install a
> > program that
> > uses InstallShield Wizard and I got the following message:
> >
> > The installShield Engine (iKernel.exe) could not be launched. Not
> > enough
> > storage is available to process this command.
> >
> > However WinZip does not have a problem unzipping files on the
> > computer.
> >
> > I downloaded Dr Hardware 2000 and sometimes when I run the program,
> > the
> > computer freezes up and sometimes it works. To my untrained eye I
> > cannot see
> > anything in this program that points to a possible fault.
> >
> >
> >
> > Otherwise the computer works flawlessly. I can do all my work in the
> > various
> > programs but I just can't copy and paste anything within the
> > programs and I
> > can't use my e-mail.
> >
> > I did remove the RAM card and tried it in a different slot but this
> > did not solve the problem.
>
> > Any help would be most welcome in solving the Riddle of The Missing
> > Memory.
> > Thanks
> > Harry
>
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