how much memory?

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Sally Werder

how can I check to see how much memory I have available
on my Hp, windows XP comp? I just wanna know how much
memory I have available>????
 
You can do it one of two different ways...

My Computer-->Help-->About Windows

or...

CTRL-ALT-DEL --> Task Manager --> Performance

Good luck Sally!
 
Sally Werder said:
how can I check to see how much memory I have available
on my Hp, windows XP comp? I just wanna know how much
memory I have available>????
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Why?

It is basically an irrelevant figure.

Windows will always attempt to find some use, anything that might be
potentially beneficial rather than just leaving RAM sitting there idly
going to rot.

So Windows will, if there is sufficient RAM, create a very large disk
cache in RAM and will also retain program code from closed
applications, at least until some better use comes along for any of
that RAM. Then it will instantaneously drop the more trivial usages
so as to free up whatever is required.

The most critical figure regaring memory usage, in my opinion at
least, is one that Windows XP does not even report with its own
utilities. That is the amount of active memory content that has been
moved from RAM to the page file so as to allow the RAM to be reused
for other, currently more important, activities.

So long as that figure remains at zero, or close to it, there is no
need to be concerned about RAM. And if that figure does start to get
up to a substantial amount, say 50 mb or more, on a regular basis,
then that is an indication that adding more RAM will probably have a
beneificial effect on overall performance.

A free utility to report actual usage of the page file can be
downloaded from http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_pagefilemon.htm
or from http://billsway.com/notes_public/WinXP_Tweaks/

Good luck




Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."
 
Thanks Ron for the heads up on this utility!
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Why?

It is basically an irrelevant figure.

Windows will always attempt to find some use, anything that might be
potentially beneficial rather than just leaving RAM sitting there idly
going to rot.

So Windows will, if there is sufficient RAM, create a very large disk
cache in RAM and will also retain program code from closed
applications, at least until some better use comes along for any of
that RAM. Then it will instantaneously drop the more trivial usages
so as to free up whatever is required.

The most critical figure regaring memory usage, in my opinion at
least, is one that Windows XP does not even report with its own
utilities. That is the amount of active memory content that has been
moved from RAM to the page file so as to allow the RAM to be reused
for other, currently more important, activities.

So long as that figure remains at zero, or close to it, there is no
need to be concerned about RAM. And if that figure does start to get
up to a substantial amount, say 50 mb or more, on a regular basis,
then that is an indication that adding more RAM will probably have a
beneificial effect on overall performance.

A free utility to report actual usage of the page file can be
downloaded from http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_pagefilemon.htm
or from http://billsway.com/notes_public/WinXP_Tweaks/

Good luck




Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."
.
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