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"MemTurbo will recover the RAM used to back those resources,
but not the actual resources themselves. "Resources" are a holdover
from 16-bit Windows (and one of the prime reasons I upgraded to
NT, myself), and there's really no way to recover them."
"Resources" as it is refered to 3x above, is too simply been put there.
"Resources" are a holdover from the early 1980 PC design days.
(Holdover from first XT and later AT).
Any OS, thus this incl. Win-NT, "suffers" from the PC's AT design structure for PC's MEM.
Therefore getting Low on Resources errors are frequently generated on Win-NT as well.
But the build-in Win-NT Memory Manager is of a better design, eg to the use the "lower" PC's
system resources(<1064) solely for "itselve" and user resources(>1064kB) for "itselve and
other manufacturer's applications". (When run, Win-NT dominates the lower resources).
And there is another huge difference though.
Win-NT uses a surrogate DOS clone NTDOS, eg WIN-NT's own version of "DOS", a cloned
boxed version of the Win9x's "MsDos-Prompt" console box.
wheras 9x uses the actual DOS environment, eg first to boot in, and later within Windows
uses a Virtual DOS (in a console and based on the old DOS techniques) AND has a build
in switch oportunity to go back to the true DOS Operating System {therefore DOS games
can be played on Win9x machines whereas this is not possible on WIN-NT}.
By AT design(<640kB), System resources cannot be reclaimed. Period.
{a reboot will do, tho}. Eg flushing the MEM cannot be achieved.
By AT design(<640kB) Microsoft had to therefore create loading techniques(>640kB<1064kB)
{not seen by other software producers/vendors} to be able to load into the "endless" area(RAM) what is later known as the "User
Resources"{and what the general public refers to as "RAM"}".
See previous mail for the MEM explanation/buid up.
Another Tip: Delete any screensavers from your PC, to regain sources.
Regards,
Ton Maas
ms-irb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dismiss the ".nospam" bit (including the dot) when replying.
Homepage http://home.planet.nl/~anthmaas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Wallace" <gcwallace@xxxxxxxx>
To: "MetaStock listserver" <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: donderdag 13 april 2000 2:30
Subject: Re: System Low On Resources....
> Mark:
>
> I didn't see a response from Guy regarding your question, so I'll take a shot
> at it. Coincidentally, I asked the same question of the MemTurbo tech support
> person last year and he replied:
>
> "MemTurbo will recover the RAM used to back those resources,
> but not the actual resources themselves. "Resources" are a holdover
> from 16-bit Windows (and one of the prime reasons I upgraded to
> NT, myself), and there's really no way to recover them."
>
> The following is from the MemTurbo website (http://www.memturbo.com/)
>
> "MemTurbo increases your system performance by making more
> RAM available for your applications and the operating system.
> It also defragments your physical RAM, increasing the efficiency
> of your CPU and Motherboard caches. MemTurbo also recovers
> memory leaks from poorly behaved applications and flushes unused
> libraries and DLLs temporarily out to disk, making more room for
> your favorite games or applications."
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "scheier" <scheier@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 8:20 AM
> Subject: Re: System Low On Resources....
>
> > Guy--
> >
> > Do you understand MemTurbo to accomplish the same thing as
> > rebooting? --that is, it corrects the problem of restoring
> > resources that do not automatically restore as, for instance, the
> > number of windows are reduced/closed in programs that have max'd
> > these resources out?
> >
> > I think MemTurbo has a web address, do you know what it is?
> >
> > thanks, Mark Scheier
> >
> >
> > Guy Tann wrote:
> > >
> > > I use MemTurbo which I believe Ton passed on to me. I also use TaskInfo
> > > to monitor what's happening on my system. Am please with both.
> > >
> > > Guy
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Nicholas Kormanik <nkormanik@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 12:56 PM
> > > Subject: System Low On Resources....
> > > >
> > > > When the MetaStock warning message "Your system is low on resources...."
> > > > comes up, is there any way to ***reclaim*** the resources besides
> > > > rebooting?
> > > > I exit all other programs, and this error message regularly comes up.
> > > > My hardware system is at the high end, with 256 meg memory. OS
> > > > is Win 98.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Nicholas
>
>
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