Files left behind.....

[kd5]

I had WinRamTurbo Free v1.4, liked it alot. WinRamTurbo came out with an upgrade, v2.0, then v2.1, now v2.2. Waited till potential bugs were worked out, then decided to upgrade to v2.2. In order to install v2.2, I had to uninstall v1.4 first. No problem. But I was exploring my Windows/Program files (Win98se), and found a folder left over from WinRamTurbo v1.4 which contained configuration settings. Since I have the complete program for v2.2, would you think it would be safe to assume the configuration settings for v1.4 would no longer be needed?

Right now they're sitting in my recycle bin waiting to be removed. But I thought I'd ask if anyone had any insights they might be willing to bestow to a relative novice before I emptied the trash....... Thanks, -kd5-

[Mr N8]

If you have run winram 2.2, and also have rebooted with no problems, it will be safe to dump the files from your PC. If the program wanted to use those files, you would get an error message. When you boot up, you would get an error message if the registry is looking for one of the files.

Nate

[galaxian]

If you really want to do your PC a favor, uninstall ALL versions. There is no need to "create" free memory. Windows does not need it. Besides, when these types of programs are run, it isn't them that is "freeing" the memory, it's WINDOWS.
Free memory is wasted memory.

Unless of course, you are running them to exercise your disk drive and your swapfile. In which case, keep on running them. They do an excellent job.

[kd5]

Thank you for replying. I appreciate the responses. However, galaxian, if you multi-tasked in Windows and on the internet like I do, you would soon discover that, since Windows 98 is not smart enough to release the RAM it has used in performing the numerous functions it has, that soon you would not be able to go anywhere. Click on a hyperlink, and more often than not, you'll get an IE error page, sometimes the PC will even go as far as appearing to freeze up. Usually the only way to remedy this is to shut down & restart, allowing Windows to release the RAM it had previously and quite selfishly held hostage.

Of course I only have 128mb's of RAM. It might be different if I had 256mb's of RAM, but for right now I'm stuck with 128.

By using WinRamTurbo to free up the RAM that Windows is holding hostage, I find that I no longer need to shut down & restart my PC. So, as far as whether or not a program such as WinRamTurbo is useful, and well worth the download, where I very much appreciate your opinion, the program works well enough for me and it's earned its place on my HD.:) -kd5-

[galaxian]

I won't question the fact that you are obviously getting a benefit from running this program.
BUT, it is not because Windows is holding memory hostage, and not because it is not releasing memory.

As I said, these types of programs ARE NOT creating this free memory themselves. They are making requests for large areas of memory, which window honors by paging out areas that are in ram. Then the program just "gives the memory back to windows", and, windows makes it available.

This process is exactly what will happen if one of your running programs needs memory.

See the following link for a good explanation of why these programs do nothing. It is technical in nature, but a good read.

http://www.glorysite.com/help6.html#fix

BTW a shortage of memory should not be giving you and "IE error page" when you click on a hyperlink. As I said, the program obviously helps you, but it is not due to a shortage of ram. It must be doing something else, like forcing IE to flush internal buffers and/or cache.

Also, if you want to try something that will reduce your overall memory usage, instead of clicking on the IE icon to start a new session, to go to another site, use ctrl+N. This also has a positive affect on System Resources.

[christo418]

kd5-I would Quick view .inf and .ini files and see the Registry headings. If it wasn't uninstalled, chances are that there are some shared .dll or .vxd with another application. If you delete this, you might inadvertently make another application unusable.

[mike breck]

The easiest and safest thing to do with files or folders you're not sure about deleting, is to keep them in the recycle bin for a few week's while using your programs normally. If no problems arise, then you can delete them. You can delete everything else in the recycle bin, but don't touch the questionable files. In this case, I am sure they are taking up negligible disk space, so why rush to delete them anyway.

HTH