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Strategies & Market Trends : Metastock 6.0 for Window -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim Deni who wrote (1611)	2/20/1998 12:44:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 4056

Jim, maybe you mentioned earlier, but if you're running Windows 95 (as opposed to NT), more physical memory may not solve the problem. Graphical resources are still limited under Win 95 (though nothing like as severely as earlier Windows), irrespective of physical memory size. If you're running NT, more physical memory may help, but so will increasing the pagefile size(s). In NT 4.0 you can do this on the performance tab of the MyComputer property sheet. More physical memory will make it run faster, but increasing the page size will alleviate out of memory problems at the cost of speed (due to page swapping). Note: If you have the wrong chipset, increasing physical memory may actually slow your system down. Some chipsets (far too many of the Intel ones) will only cache the first 64MB of memory. Install more than that and your system slows down significantly when you access above 64 megs. If you're running Win 95 and running low on memory physical, increasing the page file size will help there too. You can find out what you're low on by running the system meter applet, which I believe was mentioned earlier on this thread. (Should be in the Windows directory, but you may have to install it from the Windows CD-ROM if you didn't select it in the original install--click Add/Remove software in the control panel). There are three resources shown by the system meter: graphical, user, and virutal memory (I forget exactly what the virtual memory resource is called in system meter). If you're running low on virtual memory, increasing the page file (swap file) size will help. You increase the page file for windows 95 from the MyComputer property sheet. Sorry, since I don't run Win 95 any longer, I forget the details. I think it's on the performance tab, though. Good luck