winton5
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Win 98 memory problem
How can i get win 98 to read over a gig of memory
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CrazyOne
Supposedly Win98 can handle up to 1GB of RAM but that is as far as she will go. Use Win2000, XP or Win2003 sever if you need that much RAM.
Win98 can handle comfortably 384k of ram.
Other programs can handle more but vitual memory in 98 takes over.
If you want to force the issue, reduce or shut down virtual memory,
and depending on what you're doing it may force it to use ram.
Give it a try.
To shut down VM, MyCompute/Properties/Perfo
and make the changes.
Windows will squack but go ahead and make the changes,
I suggest you leave a minimun amount otf VM on.
If it works for you, it can be customized further.
Cheers
Other programs can handle more but vitual memory in 98 takes over.
If you want to force the issue, reduce or shut down virtual memory,
and depending on what you're doing it may force it to use ram.
Give it a try.
To shut down VM, MyCompute/Properties/Perfo
and make the changes.
Windows will squack but go ahead and make the changes,
I suggest you leave a minimun amount otf VM on.
If it works for you, it can be customized further.
Cheers
i don't know if makes any difference, never tried this
i just came up with it.
why not make a huge ramdisk a put there your pagefile/swapfile on.
i don't know for sure if the pagefile has limits in 98
i just came up with it.
why not make a huge ramdisk a put there your pagefile/swapfile on.
i don't know for sure if the pagefile has limits in 98
See CrazyOne nothing is impossible.
See Winton5 works need to be done only on GDI and all Cache Drivers so u don't worry about
whether Windows 98 or any operating system can use gig memory.
U wait for another 2 days. I will let u know how to run 98 smoothly even if u hv gig mem coz Windows programmers know tht they can rebuild their shell to allow windows 98 to use gig memory but now they don't want to lunch a new version of Windows 98 and tht's y they want user to use their new products and not old one ( Windows 98 ).
I am using Windows 98 with gig and i find no problem running windows 98 coz i worked
on some shell functions on DLL files and drivers files for windows 98. So when i will
finish this thing i will let u know how to make ur Windows 98 ready to use gig also.
thankx
See Winton5 works need to be done only on GDI and all Cache Drivers so u don't worry about
whether Windows 98 or any operating system can use gig memory.
U wait for another 2 days. I will let u know how to run 98 smoothly even if u hv gig mem coz Windows programmers know tht they can rebuild their shell to allow windows 98 to use gig memory but now they don't want to lunch a new version of Windows 98 and tht's y they want user to use their new products and not old one ( Windows 98 ).
I am using Windows 98 with gig and i find no problem running windows 98 coz i worked
on some shell functions on DLL files and drivers files for windows 98. So when i will
finish this thing i will let u know how to make ur Windows 98 ready to use gig also.
thankx
It's been two days oshelp....waiting for your response.....
Oh, just so you know....OSHelp is not going to be able to respond anymore. His account is now suspended.
Thanks for he info Wakeup
...and I wanted to see it....
It don't exist cent oshelp was blowing smoke out of you know what. :>)
well aware of it..
just curious as to what he was going to try to sell! LOL
just curious as to what he was going to try to sell! LOL
Oh Ok for some reason I thought you were serious. DOH!!!!!