From: Storm on 01/01/2004
Well, the title pretty much describes the problem. I have a 3 year old Dell Dimension 8100 P4 1.5 with Windows ME, 80GB HDD, and 1024MB RDRAM. Now, I do have a few apps running in the background (Norton 2003, Zone Alarm, Port Monster, printer monitors, wingman controller, active sync, and a few others), but not enough to use up over a gig of RAM. I have run the Dell Resolution assistant, as well as their online diagnostic, and the MS bootup RAM tests, all pass. But when I have two or three IE windows, and maybe two or three explorer windows open, if I check the Properties|Performance tab on my PC,I will sometimes have system resources as low as 4-9% free. However, I have an app called AIDA32 which gives a system breakdown, and most of the time the resources are much higher there. Is this just a problem with ME (I have heard that ME doesnt like anything higher than 512MB RAM)? I've been thinking of upgrading to XP (this might be the push I need if it is ME), but I am wary of upgrades ever since I upgraded my 486/66 from 3.1 to 95.
Thanks
Storm
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