Re: How to determine memory usage?

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From: "Gerry" <gerry@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:15:09 +0100

Ed

Are you leaving your computer on 24/7?

If you have a memory leak restarting the computer releases the memory.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Ed wrote:

500MB is just really on the cusp if you are running any applications.
I have never considered using less than 1GB for XP and apps. I bet
your system runs faster with more memory. However you may want to
check and make sure any applications you have shutdown are actually
out of memory. I have a problem with that very issue right now. Many
applications will retain memory even after being shut down for hours
or even days.

"J150" wrote:

I have 512 MB of memory and want to know if there are built-in tools
in WinXP Home to tell the memory usage. I am concerned that my PC is
running slowly when I have too many applications open due to this,
and may need to add more memory. Thanks for any information.
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J150

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