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WindowsME ate my memory for lunch!

#1 User is offline   pr-man 

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Posted 22 July 2000 - 04:25 AM

Ok I have been running WindowsME final release for 2 weeks now and by all accounts its ok, it crashes much less than win98 and seems a little faster especially the boot times but one thing that is pissing me off is that it leaks memory like a fiend. If I let the computer just run for a couple of hours doing nothing and then run sandra 2000 out of 192 megs of physical ram I have 0% left!!! WTF, also for some stupid reason windows is only creating a 75 meg swap file (ok thats wierd) Any suggestions? or should I just got back to Win2k pro smile

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#2 User is offline   DosFreak 

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Posted 22 July 2000 - 05:59 AM

Just go back to NT5. wink
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#3 User is offline   Svision 

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Posted 22 July 2000 - 08:02 PM

i've had the exact same problem.
I was stupid enough to try out WinME.
Well, i'm back to win2k now. that's all i can say wink
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#4 User is offline   ras 

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Posted 26 July 2000 - 11:59 PM

WINME is for your mom and nan and people who buy there pcs from wallmart!!!!!! stick to a proper os WINDOWS 2000.
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#5 User is offline   Four and Twenty 

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Posted 27 July 2000 - 05:18 AM

if you run games run winme on the side it is the current os for gamming

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#6 User is offline   thibs 

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Posted 27 July 2000 - 11:18 AM

WinME ... you switch from Win2K Pro to WinME ?!!!
That's insane ... I'll never talk to you again ... ever !
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#7 User is offline   jdulmage 

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Posted 02 August 2000 - 11:11 AM

screw going back to win2k or staying with winme..I have 224 MB of RAM using cacheman at http://www.outertech.com and it runs WinME like a charm...but if you really want to go to Win2k..hell going Windows Whistler pre-beta..it's a hell of alot better even though it's a pre-beta...it runs better than 2000 and is way much better
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#8 User is offline   Down8 

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Posted 02 August 2000 - 03:30 PM

I would go back to w2kpro. I have had no problems with games [quake3, unreal tourney, diablo2]. I did just read an article baout whistler being better than 2k in the benchmarks, but why play with a beta?

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Home built system:             Also, just for fun:
Soyo SY-7VCA                   AST Bravo LC 4/66d
[VIA T82C694X]                 Intel 486 CPU
[onboard sound]                40 MB RAM
PIII 500E [flip chip]          500 MB Conner Hdd
PNY 128 MB PC100 RAM           3 1/2, 5 1/4, 2x CD
Stealth III S540               3com Etherlink II
3com Etherlink III             Adaptec AHA-1545 SCSI
Quantum Fireball 10.3 GB Hdd   [to host some files on:]
HP A4331D 20" Monitor          1.3 GB internal Seagate
Win2K Pro [v5.00.2195, SP-1]   2 2 GB external Seagate
[format => clean install]      Windows 95 [v4.00.1111]
Covad DSL [shared]             pcAnywhere 9.2
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