[Virtualacorn-list] Virtual Acorn Setup Problem

[Alan Adams]

In message <4ffba06d69cvjazz at waitrose.com>
          Chris Newman <cvjazz at waitrose.com> wrote:

> In article <9c7c31fb4f.tigger at bc63.orpheusinternet.co.uk>,
>    Nick Roberts <tigger at orpheusinternet.co.uk> wrote:

>> My recommendation, and that of Brian D, were to use twice the amount
>> of page file that Windows suggests as the recommendation, not twice the
>> amount of physical RAM.
>  My laptop properties report that I have 480 MB of RAM but the original spec
> said 512 MB & I think it reported such when the machine was new.
> Novices questions -
> Does the RAM degrade in any way i.e does the chip(s) become less efficient
> over time.
> If not, what could be eating my RAM. Is Service Pack 3 the culprit?

The figure shown there excludes RAM allocated to the graphics system - 
so you have a 32M graphics card.

> Sorry if this is obvious to all you out there but I am fairly new to delving
> into the workings of Windows.



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