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Hi Bob,
There is a way to free up a large chunk of memory reserved for old
monochrome adapters (if you are lucky) and it is not being used by another
device. To check if it is free click the windows start button, then Settings,
then Control Panel. Double click the System icon. Click the Device Manager
Tab. Highlight the computer at the top of the tree (if not already
highlighted). Click the Properties button. Click the Memory button on the
View resources page.
You will see a list of settings and the hardware using the settings.
If if the setting 000B0000 - 000B7FFF reads Unavailable for use by devices you
can regain this memory.
To reclaim this memory add, or modify, the following line in your
Config.sys file: device=c:\Windows\Emm386.exe i=b000-b7ff
ram
This instrects your memorm manager to use the entire block between
B000 and B800 (B7ff is one bite below B000). This block is not used by memory
managers since VGA adaptors can switch to monochrome by programs. Since this
is rare these days it is safe to use this block, unfortunately device
manufacturer's also know this and may have already claimed this block.
A few other tricks that you may already know are:
Load drivers in order of size largest to smallest.
Empty recycle bin.
Empty clip board or copy a single charactor to reduce
mem. used.
I hope this helps. Good luck and good trading.
Ray Raffurty
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