Hello Ian, Wednesday, May 15, 2002, 8:04:17 AM, you wrote: I> I'm repeating my queries (below) as the first posting received a deafening I> silence. Has no-one any comment to make on these subjects? I> ---------------------- I> 1. There was some talk a while back of the possibly disadvantageous effects I> of having a heap of ram. My W98SE system has 2 sticks of 256 PC2100 DDR, so I> I pulled one stick out to see if it ran any differently. I can't detect any I> changes. I> Anyone seen any information relating to a possible excess of ram? I> 2. I'm trying out Zone Alarm. I saw a mention somewhere in my travels about I> dial-up connections not needing Zone Alarm or similar firewalls. I'm I> curious to know if there is any foundation to this comment. I> Ian Porter I> Computer Guys I> Arrowtown I> New Zealand I> [log in to unmask] As I know the productivity of OS saturates with increasing RAM. For example: Win95 saturates in the range 16- 32MB, Win98 - in the range 32- 64MB, Win2000- in the range 64- 128MB, WinXP- in the range 128- 256MB for client mashine. My Win2000 Terminal Server (with 10 clients) works without saturation with 512MB (used 0nly about 400MB). Summary: With simple office progs and games there are no need in big amount of RAM. -- Best regards, Yakymakha Do you want to signoff PCSOFT or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcsoft.shtml