Ann, forget that too much time business. We've got to get
you going here.
Two comments:
One.
With that machine purchased when you did, it is highly likely
you have 72-pin fast page mode RAM. If that is true, which
you can probably find out reading your manual a bit closer,
you should probably upgrade by 16 megabytes (two 8-meg 72-pin
simms) to a total of 24 megabytes (including the 8 you already
have). There are two good reasons for this: (1) That's exactly
what everybody's trying to dump nowadays and it will be
a bargain. Look for it at a local computer store, where you
will probably have better luck more quickly than mail order.
(2) Win 95 runs MUCH MUCH better in 24 MB than in 16 MB.
I have made the comparison in three different installations
(mine and both of my [grown] daughters' PCs).
DON'T buy EDO ram. It will probably be the same price,
but you almost certainly can't use it, and it's NOT
compatible with fast page mode. MAYBE THIS IS WRONG,
but if it's not clear from your manual, assume it's
fast page mode (rather than EDO). I don't actually
think any 100 mhz Pentiums use EDO (somebody correct
me if that's wrong).
Two.
You will have trouble no matter what you do until you
free up some hard disk space. Many games, and windows itself,
react very poorly to running out of disk space. Windows 95
reacts poorly to running out of disk space for what is
called "swap file space". VERY few programs are tested
in low disk space environments. This was true when disks
were expensive, and now they're cheap so don't expect it
to get better. To get anywhere, even to make use of added
RAM, you're going to have to free up disk space somehow.
How is a topic for later messages.
Hang in there! Keep posting with no fear. You're on the
nice thread, remember <G>.
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