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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (585)	5/4/1998 9:25:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Respond to of 14778

>> delete some outgrown children's programs<< Click on the start button, then settings then control panel and then add/remove programs. Click on the program you want to remove. It may ask you about removing some files that are shared. If you are not sure do not remove the shared files. You may want to boot the machine afterwards to make sure it is working properly. Feel free to post, I am sure there are others that benefit from your questions. Zeuspaul

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (585)	5/4/1998 9:34:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

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>. Spots

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (585)	5/4/1998 11:30:00 PM
From: LTBH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Hello Ann, Take a deep breathe and slow down, you're getting a lot of advice trying to help (and its difficult to do long distance) but there are several things you should and can do without incurring any cost at this point. First, seems to me one of your posts said the game installed DirectX drivers. I suspect that the driver version maybe conflicting with your version of Windows but you need to find out what version of Win95 you have and what updates have been installed. Go to my message 569 for a link address, go to the site and DL QFE List and Win95 Ver. Install both and run Win95 Ver. This will tell you which version of Windows you have. Write it down. Now use the find file in your start menu to find QFEcheck. Then run QFEcheck and write down (you can't print it) the UPD#s of the registered updates you have installed. Post the Win Version and UPDs (could be 10 or 12 but bet you only have 3 or 4) here. You could also see if you can find out the make and model of graphics adapter and what VESA standard its driver supports. Might want to see if they have any newer driver available also. The object is to understand what you have, then see if you need to update. Even if this doesn't fix this problem it will allow you to bring Win95 up to current level while eliminating a possible source of your problem. And the updates are free, just requires your time. Networm