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Originally Posted by doctorgonzo
Reducing RAM usage to bare minimum in Windows? Give me a break. These young whipper-snappers today know nothing about the time when DOS prevailed and you actually NEEDED these skills in order to get as much of that 640K of memory free to run your games. MEMMAKER, EMM386, HIMEM...ah, the good old days.  |
Ya... and storing data in both nibbles of a byte
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Originally Posted by doubledragon5
I use to Tweak my pc, put found it to me more of a hassle that it is good.. So what ever ram gets used so be it, that is what is there for..
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Same here, I use to "groom" my system all the time, all the way thru Win 98.2. Never noticed any real benefit doing so with XP. - Like the good old days mentioned above, when I was the only person around with whopping,
dual 30
MB drives screwed to the underside of the desk, at a $1,000, ya there wasn't an errant .bak, .tmp, or other unnecessary file hanging around. That's when partitioning meant a lot more as you greatly reduced cluster size therefore "expanding" the amount of actual data you could store. Now for about the same about of money you can get...what?... 5
TB in drive space? How things changed...