Hi George Thanks, I'll leave thinggs alone then, feel a little happier now. I had no idea whether the available memory was about right. regards Graham ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 1:58 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Ram > Sounds quite good in fact, Graham. > > You can see what processes are running by going into Task Manager. > > If it's a stand alone system, you may be able to free up a little more, > and improve performance, by stopping the network services running. But > that's another ball of wax. > > George. > > -----Original Message----- > From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf > Of Graham Smith > Sent: 19 June 2004 12:26 > To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [access-uk] Ram > > Hi > > Running jaws 5 and XP Home. > > =46rom a fresh start with jaws running I go to System Info and am told > that I have 306 Mb free out of 512 Mb ram. > > I realise that this is a silly question as it all depends on what is > running, but could anyone tell me if that figure is about right. > > Apart from jaws and Norton anti virus I have nothing in my sys tray. > There are several items in msconfig start up but I have not worked out > what they all are yet. > > I am trying to get the best performance from my pC and I was just > wondering if the amount of free ram I have is about right for the sort > of system I have. > > Graham > > > ** To leave the Access-UK list, send a message with the Subject:- > ** unsubscribe > ** to access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** Please do not put text or signatures in the message body > ** For other things like setting nomail when on holiday, > ** or digest mode, send a message, to > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- > ** faq > ** Please do not put text or signatures in the message body. > > > =0AThis Message has been scanned for viruses by McAfee Groupshield. > ** To leave the Access-UK list, send a message with the Subject:- > ** unsubscribe > ** to access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** Please do not put text or signatures in the message body > ** For other things like setting nomail when on holiday, > ** or digest mode, send a message, to > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- > ** faq > ** Please do not put text or signatures in the message body. > ** To leave the Access-UK list, send a message with the Subject:- ** unsubscribe ** to access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** Please do not put text or signatures in the message body ** For other things like setting nomail when on holiday, ** or digest mode, send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- ** faq ** Please do not put text or signatures in the message body.