Re: Am I Memory Poor?
- From: "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 17:55:17 -0700
Xray wrote:
I have a 3 year old Dell Dimension 6400 with 512 mb of ram. I am
running a memory monitor that I just found on Yahoo Widgets. It often
reports that I have between 15% and 30% memory available. Am I in a
position where things are slowing down because of it?
No. That's no problem at all.
Wanting to minimize the amount of memory Windows uses is a counterproductive
desire. Windows is designed to use all, or nearly all, of your memory, all
the time, and that's good not bad. Free memory is wasted memory. You paid
for it all and shouldn't want to see any of it wasted.
Windows works hard to find a use for all the memory you have all the time.
For example if your apps don't need some of it, it will use that part for
caching, then give it back when your apps later need it. In this way Windows
keeps all your memory working for you all the time.
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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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