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Guest
After I install the memory chip is there anything else I have to do with
Windows XP
Windows XP
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Malke
puterjunkie4ever said:After I install the memory chip is there anything else I have to do
with Windows XP
No.
Malke
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Hank
Hello!
You can test amount of installed memory by checking properties of My
Computer icon.
You should see 256 MB RAM.
If you have 128 MB instead, probably you should look into the BIOS.
If you have two memory chips with incompatible formats, system will use
only one of them.
Best regards,
Alexander Kutin
http://www.kutinsoft.com
You can test amount of installed memory by checking properties of My
Computer icon.
You should see 256 MB RAM.
If you have 128 MB instead, probably you should look into the BIOS.
If you have two memory chips with incompatible formats, system will use
only one of them.
Best regards,
Alexander Kutin
http://www.kutinsoft.com
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Dave B
Actually, yes there is something you MUST do. When XP is installed it sets a
manual swap file size for the amount of installed RAM, when you upgrade the
RAM XP does not adjust for this. You should go into the performance tab of
system properties and set the swap file to Windows managed.
manual swap file size for the amount of installed RAM, when you upgrade the
RAM XP does not adjust for this. You should go into the performance tab of
system properties and set the swap file to Windows managed.
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Gordon
Dave said:Actually, yes there is something you MUST do. When XP is installed it
sets a manual swap file size for the amount of installed RAM,
Don't think that's right - the default is Windows managed AFAIK........
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Dave B
No it is not
Gordon said:Don't think that's right - the default is Windows managed AFAIK........
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Ted Zieglar
Actually, Gordon is correct.
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Dave B
All of the installs I have done (too many to count) set a custom swapfile
size based on the installed RAM, One I completed Friday was set this way,
every install I ever remember doing was set this way. I am actually doing
one now so I'll check it when it's complete.
size based on the installed RAM, One I completed Friday was set this way,
every install I ever remember doing was set this way. I am actually doing
one now so I'll check it when it's complete.
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John John
No. The maximum size of the pagefile is set by Windows at 1.5 times RAM
when the operating system is installed. If you add RAM after Windows is
installed the maximum pagefile size will not be changed, you have to
change it manually.
John
when the operating system is installed. If you add RAM after Windows is
installed the maximum pagefile size will not be changed, you have to
change it manually.
John
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Bruce Chambers
Dave said:Actually, yes there is something you MUST do. When XP is installed it sets a
manual swap file size for the amount of installed RAM, when you upgrade the
RAM XP does not adjust for this. You should go into the performance tab of
system properties and set the swap file to Windows managed.
Totally unnecessary, unless the OP has changed from the default of
"Windows Managed."
--
Bruce Chambers
Help us help you:
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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin
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Dave B
We already established that the default is NOT windows managed, it is set to
a fixed minimum and maximum, look at it after you do a clean install.
a fixed minimum and maximum, look at it after you do a clean install.
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Bruce Chambers
Dave said:We already established that the default is NOT windows managed,
No. "we" haven't established any such thing. You've incorrectly
asserted such (and have been corrected by several people), which isn't
the same thing, at all.
it is set to
a fixed minimum and maximum,
Not on any fresh installation I've ever seen.
look at it after you do a clean install.
I have. On literally hundreds of clean installations.
--
Bruce Chambers
Help us help you:
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin
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Dave B
If you say so, my installs are evidence to the contrary.
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Tom [Pepper] Willett
I just checked about 5 of our 50 dells at work. The default is Windows
Managed.
My home PC default is Windows Managed.
Tom
| If you say so, my installs are evidence to the contrary.
|
|
| | > Dave B wrote:
| >> We already established that the default is NOT windows managed,
| >
| >
| > No. "we" haven't established any such thing. You've incorrectly
asserted
| > such (and have been corrected by several people), which isn't the same
| > thing, at all.
| >
| >
| >> it is set to a fixed minimum and maximum,
| >
| >
| > Not on any fresh installation I've ever seen.
| >
| >
| >> look at it after you do a clean install.
| >>
| >>
| >>
| >
| >
| > I have. On literally hundreds of clean installations.
| >
| >
| >
| > --
| >
| > Bruce Chambers
| >
| > Help us help you:
| >
| >
| >
| > They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
| > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin
|
|
Managed.
My home PC default is Windows Managed.
Tom
| If you say so, my installs are evidence to the contrary.
|
|
| | > Dave B wrote:
| >> We already established that the default is NOT windows managed,
| >
| >
| > No. "we" haven't established any such thing. You've incorrectly
asserted
| > such (and have been corrected by several people), which isn't the same
| > thing, at all.
| >
| >
| >> it is set to a fixed minimum and maximum,
| >
| >
| > Not on any fresh installation I've ever seen.
| >
| >
| >> look at it after you do a clean install.
| >>
| >>
| >>
| >
| >
| > I have. On literally hundreds of clean installations.
| >
| >
| >
| > --
| >
| > Bruce Chambers
| >
| > Help us help you:
| >
| >
| >
| > They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
| > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin
|
|
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Tom [Pepper] Willett
Correction: I meant to say the default is *NOT* Windows Managed.
Sorry.
Tom
|I just checked about 5 of our 50 dells at work. The default is Windows
| Managed.
|
| My home PC default is Windows Managed.
|
| Tom
| || If you say so, my installs are evidence to the contrary.
||
||
|| || > Dave B wrote:
|| >> We already established that the default is NOT windows managed,
|| >
|| >
|| > No. "we" haven't established any such thing. You've incorrectly
| asserted
|| > such (and have been corrected by several people), which isn't the same
|| > thing, at all.
|| >
|| >
|| >> it is set to a fixed minimum and maximum,
|| >
|| >
|| > Not on any fresh installation I've ever seen.
|| >
|| >
|| >> look at it after you do a clean install.
|| >>
|| >>
|| >>
|| >
|| >
|| > I have. On literally hundreds of clean installations.
|| >
|| >
|| >
|| > --
|| >
|| > Bruce Chambers
|| >
|| > Help us help you:
|| >
|| >
|| >
|| > They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
|| > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin
||
||
|
|
Sorry.
Tom
|I just checked about 5 of our 50 dells at work. The default is Windows
| Managed.
|
| My home PC default is Windows Managed.
|
| Tom
| || If you say so, my installs are evidence to the contrary.
||
||
|| || > Dave B wrote:
|| >> We already established that the default is NOT windows managed,
|| >
|| >
|| > No. "we" haven't established any such thing. You've incorrectly
| asserted
|| > such (and have been corrected by several people), which isn't the same
|| > thing, at all.
|| >
|| >
|| >> it is set to a fixed minimum and maximum,
|| >
|| >
|| > Not on any fresh installation I've ever seen.
|| >
|| >
|| >> look at it after you do a clean install.
|| >>
|| >>
|| >>
|| >
|| >
|| > I have. On literally hundreds of clean installations.
|| >
|| >
|| >
|| > --
|| >
|| > Bruce Chambers
|| >
|| > Help us help you:
|| >
|| >
|| >
|| > They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
|| > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin
||
||
|
|
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Dave B
Thanks for the confirmation Tom