Guest Gerry Posted June 20, 2008 Posted June 20, 2008 Re: How to determine memory usage? Ed Are you leaving your computer on 24/7? If you have a memory leak restarting the computer releases the memory. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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. >> -- >> J150
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