low memory

[crasher]

just recently installed office XP, norton inernet security 2002, norton system works 2002.

Since this install available physical memory dropped to about 40MB from above 100MB free. I have not touched the start up programs.

Are these installed programs that much of a memory hog?

[Whyzman]

crasher,

I would just check the documentation that came with the programs...usually they tell you the system requirements...RAM requirements etc.

However, that sort of looks like what they're gonna chew up! http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/frown.gif

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[Steve]

Hi crasher,

I use Norton SystemWorks but I don't have anything except the anti virus enabled at start-up. If you let the whole program run at start-up it will hog ALOT of memory. You should disable the whole lot and start them as needed. No sense having programs running if you don't need to. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif

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[This message has been edited by Steve (edited 03-08-2002).]

[hiredgoonz]

Guarantee OfficeXP is running at least office startup on boot, and maybe file optimizer...don't need em, so you can shut em off...try startup control panel, it manages all your startup stuff from the control panel.

Let's you turn off stuff you didn't even know was there...

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[ErnieK]

Or you can type "MSCONFIG" (without quotes) and go to start in there and de-select all the things you do not want or need at start-up

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[Nooyawkah]

Another thing you can do is put back in your Microsoft Office disk. When it begins to install it will give you the option of adding or removing components. If all you're using is WORD, you can make any of the other programs (Excel, Access, etc.) either "Not Available" or "Run from CD." This plus removing parts of Norton and deleting startup items should help a lot.

[crasher]

Decided on more memory.

I am a heavy multi-tasker.

[mjc]

All the more reason to turn off the uneeded parts of those programs.....instead of the twenty things you have actually openned it would be more like fifty, and it doesn't matter how good of a computer with some ungodly amount of RAM in it, it will most likely be noticeably slower running 50 things at once instead of twenty........

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[Steve]

crasher,

More memory is a good thing, but mjc is correct... http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif

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