My home computer has 16 something of memory. It will be upgraded to 64, sorry I don’t remember the term.
What difference will this make? Will it still be so slow?
A couple of times I’ve rec’d e-mail with an Attachment, and when it was opened there was nothing there. This happened with Paper Port.
What is Paper Port and is there a way to make it more efficient?
Paperport is a proprietary product for the PaperPort series of scanners. You should be able to get a copy of the PaperPort Viewer at http://www.visioneer.com.
Increasing the RAM on your PC to 64M should help the speed.
I really didn’t notice much change in speed from 16 to 32meg & none from 32 to 64. W98 too. You never can tell. It woudl probably go faster if you ran defrag on the HD, thats one thing few people do and it works great.
I don’t know about Paperport, it uses a lot of memory though.
Strange, but the menu shows thatyou have no replies here, yet there was one.
You really need to provide more information re your system and OS and applications to get a cogent answer… but that’s never stopped me before.
Overall PC performance will be based on several factors other than raw # of megs. More RAM memory is generally (there are some odd exceptions) always better than less but (for example) moving from 16 megs to 64 on a Pentium 75 system running WIN 3.1 and an older version of MS Works will make much less difference in perceived performance gain than on a Pentium 300+ Win 95/98 System running one of the latest version of MS Office (or similar app).
If your system is very “slow” now you might also want to consider upgrading the CPU, if this is an option on your motherboard or getting a new 7200 RPM harddisk if your motherboard BIOS can handle hard drives larger than 8 gigabytes.
One mistake people make is judging the speed (or perceived lack thereof) of their PC by how slow it is on the internet.
Sluggish net speed is more often a result of a mediocre connect rate than an inherently slow PC. There are net connected PC’s my daughter uses at the library occasionally that are not 1/4 as powerful (hardware wise) as the unit she uses at home but net crusing on them is 10x faster because they have a high speed connection and I am limited to a v.90 modem connect that tops out around 50K.
Re your email attachments problem you need to provide more info.
A couple of weeks ago, I upgraded my home PC from 32 to 64 megabytes. Before, when I had several applications open, it would frequently freeze up for about 20 seconds (the mouse pointer would move, but clicks and keypresses wouldn’t register), and I could hear the hard disk churning away. I upgraded to 64 and now it doesn’t do this any more.
I have a 200 MHz Pentium MMX processor, and with 64 MB its performance is just fine. If you have a slower processor, such as a Pentium running below 100 MHz, it will probably still be fairly slow even with more memory. But I believe that 16 MB would be restrictive enough that it would make anyone’s PC be slow.
By the way, my PC uses the EDO kind of memory, not the new SDRAM. EDO is harder to find nowadays and is more expensive ($100 for 32 MB). I purchased my 32 MB upgrade through an eBay auction for $38.
I upgraded my GF’s P100 from 16 MB to 24MB, this resulted in a fairly dramatic increase in the speed of her web surfing since the amount of swapping windows95 was doing in v-mem was significantly reduced, so her computer wouldn’t slow to a crawl while the HD chattered away.
ha.
slowpokes.
Well, I have 128MB on mine, but I use mine for GIMP and ridiculously memory expensive 3d games.
She doesn’t need that much power for word processing and web surfing.
Although we’ll definitely be upgrading it a bit as soon as we get some cash.
More ram only really helps if your system is constantly using your hard drive for ram swapping. If the drive is working overtime everytime you open something or switch applications you need more ram. Goto start->programs->accessories->systemtools->system monitor to see how much ram you’re using.
…or listen to it run. If your PC sounds like it’s printing the morning paper run or shaking up a batch of martinis all the time (not just when you’re opening up applications), more memory should help.
lindsay hasnt even wrote back yet. Hope what you guys suggested didn’t do anything to lindsay’s computer. But a defrag would be best.
Some software will run fine with 16MB, and upgrading to 64MB will have no affect on it. And, of course, reciprocally, some software is very RAM intensive, and 64MB would come in handy, if not, 128MB.
If all you do is surf the Internet and play Solitare every now and then, then 64MB is more than enough. If you’re going to be playing today’s 3D video games, then 64MB meets the bare minimum.