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Solve : available memory after an ram upgrade?

Answer» <html><body><p>We recently updated a PC with 128 mb of ram to 256mb. In the system information message it shows that we now have 256 mb of ram but under available resource it still says 67% free. We expected to see a <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/larger-1067345" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about LARGER">LARGER</a> number since we have more ram. The only <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/way-246442" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about WAY">WAY</a> we saw more available memory was to remove some of the programs that start up with the computer. <br/><br/>How does this work? How can we know if there is more memory available for programs?<br/><br/>Thanks<br/>GloYour operating system?67% of 265MB RAM.<br/><br/>Not 67% of 128MB RAM anymore. <br/><br/>Windows decides how it uses memory, not you.Your operating system is?<br/><br/>Sorry,<br/><br/>I should have statd that the system is windows 98. We simply added a 128 sim to the system.<br/><br/>Glo<a href="http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question466.htm">What are system resources, and why do I run out of them?</a>Thanks for all of your help. I am formerly a Unix programmer in the corporate environment so looking into my own PC hardware problems or Operating problems is new to me but very interesting.<br/><br/>Should adding more ram to a Win 98 system <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/improve-504932" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about IMPROVE">IMPROVE</a> the performance of MS word 2000? As you can see my friend's computer is several years behind the times but he is only doing word processing.<br/><br/>Thanks,<br/>GloQuote</p><blockquote>...Should adding more ram to a Win 98 system improve the performance of MS word 2000...</blockquote><br/>More than 256MB on Win98? No. Upgrading to Win2k-Pro will make the most noticeable difference in speed.<br/>That should be <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/enough-243504" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ENOUGH">ENOUGH</a> to have a very usable system with a PII-400 and up. Memory resources ARE dictated (mostly) by Windows, but does the sytem work OK? Even if you have a Pentium 5 10 <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/gigahertz-2671403" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about GIGAHERTZ">GIGAHERTZ</a> machine you can only type so fast, right?What happens is windows keeps as much files as possible into the RAM for a greater performance.<br/><br/>This is a % which i am not sure of.<br/>So when you added more RAM, your system would have become faster.</body></html>


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