I know from experience that Win95 uses a lot of memory by itself. Given what
I've seen on various machines, I know that 32MB is just a starting point for
what it really uses. In other words, with only 32MB of physical RAM, Win95 needs
and uses a significant swap file.

While you do have a problem here, I don't think it is with your RAM. It looks
more like Win95 is not getting access to a swap file in order to get at the
virtual memory you must have in order to operate.

I think the first thing I'd do would be to look at my virtual memory settings to
make sure they hadn't been changed somehow.  Virtual memory:  Control Panel,
System, Performance tab, Virtual Memory button.  99% of all users should have
the button clicked to let Windows manage their memory.

The next thing I'd do would be to look at my hard drive.  Because of the
extraordinary number of temporary files that various Windows programs create
while they're open, and the needs of the swap file, you should have at least
100MB of free space on your hard drive after you first boot into Win95.

If your hard drive space is below 30-50MB free, your system is starving to
death -- and it's going to tell you it is out of memory.

Start by looking at those two things.  If your settings are fine and you have
lots of hard drive space, let us know, and we can look further for what's going
wrong.

Roxanne Pierce
R2 Systems, San Diego
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Lundberg Sent: Friday, June 19, 1998 15:17
>
> My computer's memory seems to be hiding somewhere. ...
> ...It has 32M of EDO memory (two banks of 16M) and is running
> WIN95B. I've had the computer about 8 months and until recently had no
> problem running three or four programs at a time.  Lately I can't even
> open one program without getting an insufficient memory
> message ... Even in this stripped down condition System Monitor
> shows free memory that fluctuates between 175K and 4.5M though
> System Properties shows resources as being 87% to 92% free....