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| 86150 | 2002-10-07 01:54:00 | thanks for that will do | chantillylace (2145) | ||
| 86151 | 2002-10-07 02:15:00 | Quick temporary fix: Press the "Win" key and "D" at the same time to show the desktop, then press it again to bring back all your windows! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 86152 | 2002-10-07 02:20:00 | hi im not sure what video card i have on a specification piece of paper i have i found this savage 4 3D video, 16Mb (shared) if this doesnt help please tell me where i can find this info for u also this desktop problem i have is mainly when my webshot pictures change on my desktop it will leave a peace about and inch or so square just above the toolbar down the bottom in the middle it also happens with incredimail sometimes i never used to have this problem |
chantillylace (2145) | ||
| 86153 | 2002-10-07 02:56:00 | You dont have a video card. You have a chipset on the motherboard providing the video and using some of the main memory to do so. Refer to my 2 replies to you above, re "shared" memory for video. What you are seeing is not uncommon. It manifests itself on things that use a lot of memory for video (webshots?) and *may* possibly go away with more memory. At least thats my experience. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 86154 | 2002-10-07 03:19:00 | hi me again hey thanks heaps im sure im getting there 84% free now have made the shortcut mith msn thanks still havnt been able to do that with microsoft works though have launched the programme and i cant find in tools how disable on startup but it wasnt in startup last time i looked would love to get to the bottom of this square problem seems like i have freed up heaps have had a real good clean out to there is so much for me to learn thank goodness for people like yourselves out there to help us newbies thanks |
chantillylace (2145) | ||
| 86155 | 2002-10-07 03:27:00 | You can try Super Rabbit Magic set to remove it from startup: http://www.superrsoft.com Under the downloads section... When downloaded, goto the AutoRun icon. It'll be in there, as I've removed it too using ME! That upped my resources 6-7% at least (Even thou the PC wasnt mine) Cheers Chilling_Silence |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 86156 | 2002-10-07 03:32:00 | Remember though freeing up resources is NOT necessarily freeing up memory. They are 2 different things. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 86157 | 2002-10-07 03:35:00 | mmmm.... but it decreased the boot time by 4-5 second on a 1.2Ghz Duron. Resourceses is the combination of proccessor and memory isn't it?? Please correct me if I am wrong, I am only making an asumption here.. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 86158 | 2002-10-07 03:39:00 | hi o.k. so things seems clearer now i dont have enough memory i need more ram right? sounds expensive or would i be better to get a video card it just seems strange that it didnt do it when i first started using webshots which i enjoy very much i have some cool pictures on there for anyone to use although i have alot more to add have just started thanks heaps |
chantillylace (2145) | ||
| 86159 | 2002-10-07 03:40:00 | Windows Memory & Resources are two entirely different things . Main memory or RAM (Random Access Memory) refers to physical memory that is internal to the computer . System resources are areas of memory that are used by the input manager (USER . EXE) and the graphic display interface manager (GDI . EXE) for keeping track of all of the windows that are open in a session and for drawing objects on the screen . Owing to their fundamental nature, the performance of these programs has been improved by limiting their data to a single 64Kb segment of DOS memory (the Intel processors can access data from a 64Kb segment much faster than from a wider area) . If either of these segments becomes full, programs may fail to load and Windows may become unstable - regardless of how much other free memory there is . Each application that is loaded, and each window and child-window that is open, consumes system resources . Typically an application consumes 2-8% of system resources, and each child-window consumes 1-2% . Certain programs (eg Print Manager and some TCP/IP communication programs are particularly bad culprits) are much more greedy for system resources than this . Closing an application should release its allocated system resources, but some software is not as well behaved as it should be and this release may not happen . If the free resources fall below about 10-15%, serious problems may be encountered and Windows should be restarted as soon as possible . |
godfather (25) | ||
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