Hi,
I might have an answer for both of you. Windows 95 will use as much RAM as
is available instead of writing to disk. When another program is opened it
(Win 95) gives up RAM for that program. Here is something interesting  to
try, if you have Microsoft Word 97 open it and go to the help option on the
tool bar. At the bottom of the menu click " About Microsoft Word", and click
the radio button " System Info..." . In the window that comes up look in the
right hand pane. You will see your total amount of memory and "Available
physical memory: 0 KB*" * See "Memory" in Help Index . When you access this
option in help this is what it says:
Available Physical Memory
This is the amount of free physical memory reported by Windows. It is not
uncommon for this number to be very small or even 0 KB and does not
necessarily indicate a problem. Windows system processes may be using more
of this memory simply because it is not being used by other processes or
applications. Windows defaults to using your hard disk as memory for
applications and processes that are inactive and can allocate more memory
from the hard disk when needed as long as there is some free space on the
disk. If you are having memory problems check the Swap file setting, Swap
file usage and Available space on drive C: settings under the System
category.
I hope that this answers your question
Allen Chetwood


-----Original Message-----
From: Eddie Apostol <[log in to unmask]>


>Subject: RAM & Briefcase
>
>I have a P166-Windows95-4.00.950B-32mgRAM-IE4.04.72.2106.8. I'm
>sure this is a stupid question, but I can't determine where 24mg of
>RAM is being used.
>Hi.
>
>I sympathize with you as well, I have tried the same thing you did.  I have
>64 MB of RAM and my system says that 61 MB are used!!! >


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