elevatedmole
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Can anyone tell me how to check how much RAM I have available? I know how to check about how much space left on each drive and such, but not RAM.
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u2er said:Control Panel, System, Hardware Profiles (I THINK! )
I think you can find it somewhere in there, depending on what Windows you have (if you have Windows..) I have XP, so I'm not sure it's the same on 98. On XP, you do Control Panel, Performance/Maintenance, System, and should find it somewhere in there.
Hope this helps, even though it's likely it didn't
cloudimani said:depending on what version of windows you have this is in different places.
Windows 2000 (& other NT-based systems I presume)
do ctrl-alt-del and choose task manager and select the performance tab, this gives cpu and memory usage levels (you can also get to this by right-clicking on the tasbar and selecting task manager)
Windows 95 & variants (98, ME)
This isnt included on task manager, but you can find the same info from Start>Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Resource Meter (I think) - if you cant find that you will need to install it from your windows cd, go to Control Panel>Add/Rem. Programs - Windows Setup Tab, and its under accessories again.
Norton Utilities and similar utils packages also give you more of these kind of meters.
Its debatable whether memory usage can actually give you useful info, as there's a school of though that says free RAM is wasted RAM, so if you have loads of free RAM your computer might not run quicker than if you have very little. this is different from system Resources which does have an impact on your computer's performance.
Hope that helps, knowing me, it probably just confused you more