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Thread ID: 10046	2001-07-02 23:36:00	Allocated Memory is using 80MB with no apps running??	Guest (0)	Press F1

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14890	2001-07-02 23:36:00	I have a PIII 550mhz, 1 x 128mb PC100 Ram and 1 x 128mb PC133 Ram. I have tried taking them out seperately and depending on which one I take out, it will still be using 30-50MB(allocated memory(using system monitor)) with no apps running, with the exception of systray, explorer and sysmon. It has only happened recently, so I even formatted C: and re-installed win98se but still using that Memory? (I didn't format D:) Any ideas?? Cheers	Guest (0)
14891	2001-07-03 05:11:00	Windows 98se eats memory. I have 256Mb memory and quite often find that over 100MB is used with no apps open. I use a little utility called maxmem. It is a memory flusher and it qives back lost memory. It is only 241Kb to download and the url for it is www.analogx.com Cheers Peter Mayes	Guest (0)
14892	2001-07-03 09:26:00	basicly windows caches ram and then releases it to programs as it needs to. this usually fine but not always(typical microsoft). ram cleaners can help if you use very buggy software that will not release the ram but in general they are a waste of resorces. as much as i love to tweak in 99% of cases this is best left to windows. the trick is to make up for it with permant tweaks that dont chew resorces;-)	Guest (0)
14893	2001-07-05 12:00:00	Don't worry, windows is caching your harddrive to speed up accesses, don't worry it will shrink if you load somthing big enough to fill your memory. That is one of the advantages of lots of memory. If you are using system monitor add Memory Manager/Disk Cache Size (edit menu) Im suprised that windows is not using more than this.	Guest (0)
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