i have 2 gigs of ram installed but applications wont launch once 1 gig is used up.

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DR - 12 Feb 2008 19:55 GMT

i have 2 gigs of ram installed but applications wont launch once 1 gig is
used up.

The performance monitor never shows more then 1 gig of memroy used up, yet
applications wont launch when its near the 1 gig of used memory. how to free
up that other gig so that I can use 2 gigs of ram instead of 1. Its like i
have 2 gigs of ram and 1 gig is wasted. also, why dont applications launch?
do i need to configure some swap space or something to ensure applications
launch?

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orange - 12 Feb 2008 21:52 GMT

>i have 2 gigs of ram installed but applications wont launch once 1 gig is
>used up.
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> launch? do i need to configure some swap space or something to ensure
> applications launch?

If you're talking about music apps then free up some memory by stopping
certain programmes launching at boot up.

Use a freeware such as :

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/starter.html

You can find out what to stop/what to keep here :

http://www.sysinfo.org/startupinfo.html

Kill some non necessary processes as well :

http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm

Check your swap file/page fil : right click on My Computer > Properties >
click on the Advanced tab > Performance - click on Settings > in Visual
Effects > either check "Let Windows Decide...." or if you want to speeed
chings up "Adjust for best performance" > click the Advanced tab > In
virtual Memory make sure your page file is the same size as your RAM : if
your RAM is 2048 then your Page File should be the same > click on change to
modify if necessary > Apply > OK etc.

Cheers,
Jerry

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