Re: Advice sought re memory??????

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From: Ben (Ben_Lurkin_at_REMOVEhotmail.com)
Date: 09/08/04 

Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 04:47:46 GMT

How do I do a "system information check" to get this kind of information
about my computer.

Thanks,
Ben

"Robin McInnes" <robin@sp-amtr-ap.billycorps.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:uzHhx8LlEHA.712@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I wonder is anyone can help me with what I believe to be a memory
> problem. My PC seems to be running very slowly, with lots of disc access
> activity involved in even the most apparently simple processes, such as
> opening an application. I suspected a shortage of memory.
>
> I am running Win XP Pro SP1 on a machine fitted with a 1.00GHz Intel
> Celeron processor, 128MB of RAM and an 18.6GB hard drive.
>
> However, I've just done a system information check on the memory with
> the following results, which seem a bit on the low side to me:
>
> Total physical memory = 128.00MB (which is as expected)
> Available physical memory = 15.32MB (which is a WHOLE LOT LESS than I
> expected)
> Total virtual memory = 441.98MB
> Available virtual memory = 157.45MB
> Pagefile size = 315.5MB (although properties of c:\pagefile.sys says it
> is only 200MB)
>
> The figure which alarms me the most is the available physical one. The
> check was done with no application running, only system idle processes,
> and yet something seems to be eating up over 112MB.
>
> Is such a small available fraction of the total normal? Is there
> anything I can do to improve it? Or am I just resigned to going out and
> buying some more memory modules?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Robin
>
> (Email address contains a Spam Trap. Remove it to email me.)

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