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Hi All, I'm running windows ME and I've been trying a few things and I have a couple of questions: 1) how much ram will windows ME recognize? I put a gig of ram in my machine, but it really bogs down. Seems like it doesn't know how to deal with that much RAM. Any ideas? It's a dell dimension machine. I'm pretty sure the mother board should have no problems with handling 1gig ram. It's a P3 933. :confused: 2) What's the largest size HD partition that Windows ME will recognize? I just bought a 120 gig drive and don't know how large the partitions I can make. The bigger the better though. Thank you in advance! :) Dan Willis
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Hi All, I'm running windows ME and I've been trying a few things and I have a couple of questions: 1) how much ram will windows ME recognize? I put a gig of ram in my machine, but it really bogs down. Seems like it doesn't know how to deal with that much RAM. Any ideas? It's a dell dimension machine. I'm pretty sure the mother board should have no problems with handling 1gig ram. It's a P3 933. :confused: 2) What's the largest size HD partition that Windows ME will recognize? I just bought a 120 gig drive and don't know how large the partitions I can make. The bigger the better though. Thank you in advance! :) Dan Willis
- IIRC, Windows 95 OSR2/98/Me support only 512Mb RAM. But that's not saying it's efficient using this memory. Win9x product line use algorithms good for low memory conditions, but sucks with more than 256Mb RAM. 2) Windows ME supports FAT32, which can format up to 2TB (terabyte) of data. But, again, it's not efficient. For a FAT32 system be speed-eficient with large files, you'll need a large cluster size, but this can lose a lot of slack space and space if you have lots of small files. If you have both small and large files, the most common situation, FAT32 sucks. With more space, NTFS can be much faster, specially for deep directory structures or directories with a large number of files. I strongly recommend you to upgrade to Windows XP (since it can safely upgrade from Windows ME, I've done it before), or a fresh Windows 2000 installation for better use of your hardware. I see dumb people
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Hi All, I'm running windows ME and I've been trying a few things and I have a couple of questions: 1) how much ram will windows ME recognize? I put a gig of ram in my machine, but it really bogs down. Seems like it doesn't know how to deal with that much RAM. Any ideas? It's a dell dimension machine. I'm pretty sure the mother board should have no problems with handling 1gig ram. It's a P3 933. :confused: 2) What's the largest size HD partition that Windows ME will recognize? I just bought a 120 gig drive and don't know how large the partitions I can make. The bigger the better though. Thank you in advance! :) Dan Willis
I have to agree with Daniel. I'd strongly recommend an upgrade. Regards, Brian Dela :-)
Run naked in the snow until you're sweating like a stuck pig and can't seem to catch your breath. When the flu becomes pneumonia, they can cure that with a shot. - Roger Wright -
Hi All, I'm running windows ME and I've been trying a few things and I have a couple of questions: 1) how much ram will windows ME recognize? I put a gig of ram in my machine, but it really bogs down. Seems like it doesn't know how to deal with that much RAM. Any ideas? It's a dell dimension machine. I'm pretty sure the mother board should have no problems with handling 1gig ram. It's a P3 933. :confused: 2) What's the largest size HD partition that Windows ME will recognize? I just bought a 120 gig drive and don't know how large the partitions I can make. The bigger the better though. Thank you in advance! :) Dan Willis
Everyone say it together now... Windows ME sucks! Since Windows95, Microsoft was not bale to get a decent OS again until Windows 2000. Windows XP is good (getting to like it more as I use it more) and seems to handle large amounts of RAM very well (I have 2gig and it is quite happy with it).
Paul Watson wrote: "At the end of the day it is what you produce that counts, not how many doctorates you have on the wall."
George Carlin wrote: "Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."
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Everyone say it together now... Windows ME sucks! Since Windows95, Microsoft was not bale to get a decent OS again until Windows 2000. Windows XP is good (getting to like it more as I use it more) and seems to handle large amounts of RAM very well (I have 2gig and it is quite happy with it).
Paul Watson wrote: "At the end of the day it is what you produce that counts, not how many doctorates you have on the wall."
George Carlin wrote: "Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."
I'd agree. Having tried every version of Windows since rev 2, my first impression was that Win95 was the first usable Windows version. Since then I've had to revise that, in that Win2K is the first functional OS that Microsoft has produced. WinME was only a patch to Win98, which was a buggy patch to Win95. My experience with WinXP has been a great disappointment, though - it's a giant step backwards from Win2K, and full of bugs in need of a good exterminator. I've gone to find myself. If I should get back before I return, please keep me here.
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I'd agree. Having tried every version of Windows since rev 2, my first impression was that Win95 was the first usable Windows version. Since then I've had to revise that, in that Win2K is the first functional OS that Microsoft has produced. WinME was only a patch to Win98, which was a buggy patch to Win95. My experience with WinXP has been a great disappointment, though - it's a giant step backwards from Win2K, and full of bugs in need of a good exterminator. I've gone to find myself. If I should get back before I return, please keep me here.
Roger Wright wrote: with WinXP has been a great disappointment I do agree.... I prefer win 2000. It really rocks!! Hmmm win ME... it really sucks :mad: I was born intelligent
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Hi All, I'm running windows ME and I've been trying a few things and I have a couple of questions: 1) how much ram will windows ME recognize? I put a gig of ram in my machine, but it really bogs down. Seems like it doesn't know how to deal with that much RAM. Any ideas? It's a dell dimension machine. I'm pretty sure the mother board should have no problems with handling 1gig ram. It's a P3 933. :confused: 2) What's the largest size HD partition that Windows ME will recognize? I just bought a 120 gig drive and don't know how large the partitions I can make. The bigger the better though. Thank you in advance! :) Dan Willis
Have you got lots of free disk space? Windows needs at least the same amount of swap space as physical ram, if not twice as much. If you haven't got enough swap space, then your machine will crawl, even though you have lots of physical memory -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!