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To: The Osprey who wrote (2207)	2/4/1999 8:48:00 AM
From: Buckey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4467

Make sure you have slots to put em in - You likely do

To: The Osprey who wrote (2207)	2/4/1999 11:35:00 AM
From: StockPro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4467

Osprey, if you upgrade from 32 meg of RAM to 64 or 128 you should be extremely pleased with the results! One word of caution though ... assuming you are running Win95. Once you exceed 32 meg of memory, Win95 (and other performance tuning tools) will recommend that within the "Control Panel / System / Performance / File System" tab you set the "Typical Role of This Machine" to Server from Desktop Computer. This setting does improve hard drive performance by allocating much more of your ram to the disk caching system. But it does so at the expense of the memory you just added. I recommend keeping the "Typical Role" setting at Desktop Computer and observing for a couple of days the size of your swap file. If your swap file stays at zero file size without the additional disk cache, you don't need to allocate more memory to the cache -- keep your setting at "Desktop Computer". On the other hand, if you are still experiencing much disk activity and your swap file is being used, then follow the recommendation and set the "Typical Role" to Server. Doing the above will conserve much more of your new memory for application programs rather than assigning it (automatically and perhaps uselessly) to disk cache.