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To: wily who wrote (10013)	1/20/2000 10:51:00 PM
From: Zeddie88	Respond to of 14778

Wily, I recently upgraded from 128Mb to 256 Mb and noticed about a 10-15% improvement in System Resources measurements. Sue :)

To: wily who wrote (10013)	1/20/2000 10:59:00 PM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 14778

"Does adding memory increase your system resources?" here's what i think. no. you always have 100% but adding mem prevents the available resources from being used so quickly.

To: wily who wrote (10013)	1/21/2000 11:20:00 AM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14778

Adding memory ... Since memory is a system resource, adding more should increase those resources. (But on the other hand, we're dealing with Windows!) You may get a clearer picture of what's going on by using Monitor instead of Resource Meter, but it's more work to set up. Cheers, PW.

To: wily who wrote (10013)	1/22/2000 9:39:00 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Does adding memory increase your system resources? No and Yes. System Resources are memory areas where Windows 98 stores data structures containing information about windows and menus (for User), brushes, pens and fonts (for GDI, Graphical Device Interface) and other constructs (such as Toolbars). Many of the data structure types are stored in one large memory area that may be up to 2 the 32 power bytes in size. However, some data structure types are stored in a memory area that is limited to a maximum size of 64 kilobytes and for some data structure types there is a maximum limit to the number of data structures that may be stored in memory at one time. These are limitations built into Windows 98 by Microsoft's programmers and can not be exceeded. Therefore adding more memory does not increase system resources for data structure types that are limited by a 64 kilobyte memory limit or a maximum number of data structures limit. Where as adding more memory will increase the system resources for the data structure types stored in the one large memory area. On a practical side unless you are running a lot of old 16 bit applications, applications that use OLE, object linking and embedding, or trying to see how many programs you can load into memory at one time system resources will not be a problem. The majority of people running Windows 98 can safely forget about the system resource monitor and system resource limitations. For more information on system resources see Microsoft's Windows 98 Resource Kit. This book is heavy reading and I don't recommend buying the book but if you are in a book store you may want to see what Microsoft has to say on this subject.