set amount of ram windows can use

**nabeels786** · Sep 20th, 2002, 09:43 PM

im on windows xp, and tweaked with some settings, and i notice that out of the 256 odd mb of ram i have, by the time i book up, ive got about 40mb left...is there a way to set the max windows can use?

**Rick Bull** · Sep 21st, 2002, 04:22 AM

Wouldn't that defeat the point of having all that RAM? Maybe it's just a dodgy program that has a memory leak. I find things like KaZaA (lite) hog up my PC's resources.

**nabeels786** · Sep 21st, 2002, 09:30 AM

well the amount of ram windows can use, not other programs

this is right after startup btw

**JungleMan** · Sep 21st, 2002, 09:37 AM

If you want Windows to start using the swap file and have your other programs use the RAM that's going to severely slow stuff down.

Either get more RAM

or leave as-is. I'm now becoming more aware that 512MB is de-facto these days and I'm glad I have 512...

**Rick Bull** · Sep 21st, 2002, 10:43 AM

If it's right when Windows starts up why don't you run msconfig and disable everything in the start-up section and see if it helps. If it does slowly re-enable one thing at a time until you get the problem back again, then you'll know if the problem is a dodgy program.

**nabeels786** · Sep 21st, 2002, 11:03 AM

alright thanks.
yeah i think i should get some more ram..

**Rick Bull** · Sep 21st, 2002, 12:15 PM

Personally I don't see the big deal about RAM, it never seems to make that much difference, unless maybe you have loads of windows or memory hogging apps open at once.

**siyan** · Sep 21st, 2002, 12:52 PM

Windows itself shoulnd't take up more than 80-90 MB of RAM. Programs hog the rest.

Its acutally better to have windows run totally in RAM and let the programs fight over the remaining RAM and slodge in the swap

-C

**DiGiTaIErRoR** · Sep 21st, 2002, 09:00 PM

You may want to see what apps at taking memory. Probably stuff you load on start-up.

This is a common problem, people tottally waste their RAM on start-up apps, that, in most cases, they rarely use.

**Pc_Madness** · Sep 22nd, 2002, 01:12 AM

Originally posted by siyan
Windows itself shoulnd't take up more than 80-90 MB of RAM. Programs hog the rest.

Its acutally better to have windows run totally in RAM and let the programs fight over the remaining RAM and slodge in the swap

-C

But this is XP, it hogs all of the resources.

How bid is XP itself?? well over 1gb.. so there would have to use a fair bit of memory..

**Rick Bull** · Sep 22nd, 2002, 05:01 AM

But a lot of that 1GB is just apps like CD-Player etc isn't it? The actually XP operating system (i.e. the stuff that gets loaded to memory) wouldn't take that much would it? But yeah when I tried XP on my old PC it seemed pretty slow, so I assume it probably does take up more memory.

**JoshT** · Sep 23rd, 2002, 09:56 PM

I've gotten XP Pro to use less than 60 MB of RAM by tweaking it. Mainly disabling any Windows networking/file sharing components and as many services as possible.

**siyan** · Sep 24th, 2002, 05:32 PM

Originally posted by Pc_Madness
But this is XP, it hogs all of the resources.

How bid is XP itself?? well over 1gb.. so there would have to use a fair bit of memory..

I am using XP. It takes marginally more RAM than 2k, a clean install takes 62 MB and with some tweaks you can get it to about 55.

Just because it takes 1GB HD space doesn't neccesarily mean it takes a boatload of ram. a 700MB DivX rip won't eat up any more than the 8MB or so for WMP6.4

-C

**DiGiTaIErRoR** · Sep 24th, 2002, 06:53 PM

Xp blows. Get 2k.

**Pc_Madness** · Sep 24th, 2002, 10:51 PM

I was thinking of making a second partition for Win 98se, as sometimes XP can just be abit to much..

**DiGiTaIErRoR** · Sep 25th, 2002, 07:22 AM

I run win2k, I load the system core to memory and it only takes about 80 MB of ram.

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