Re: Is it worth upgrading to XP Pro ?

From: Kevin Lawton (socks.kepla.shoes_at_btinternet.com)
Date: 11/16/04 

Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:02:18 +0000 (UTC)

FACE <AFaceInTheCrowd@bellsouth.net> wrote:
 <snip>
| My understanding is that Windows product up until XP allocated two 64K
| segments for User/GDI resources. I am of the opinion that the glitzy,
| flashy, internet of today eats the SR ravenously and the result is a
| machine lockup on GDI failure. My further understanding is that XP
| dynamically allocates further resource segments on an "as needed"
| basis.
 <snip>
I would have expected that the allocations to User/DGI resources were
specified by values in the registry - let's face, just about everything else
is !
Could anyone possibly confirm this and, it is so, suggest what those
registry values might be ?
I tend to run my systems with lots of RAM - 512 Mb minimum, and up to 1 Gb -
so 64Kb is a pathetic amount to allocate to something which is easily filled
to the point of causing a problem.
Kevin.

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