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Thread #97061   Message #1905736
Posted By: JohnInKansas
10-Dec-06 - 06:36 PM
Thread Name: Tech: Dim fonts
Subject: RE: Tech: Dim fonts
Cluin - you're right about the organize. Another example of random moving of things around so that I missed it.

Re adding RAM: With Win95 and to a lesser extent with Win98, adding too much RAM could slow a machine down almost as much as having too little. The machine has to keep track of where things are in RAM, and if you had a lot of RAM the files to keep track of where stuff was got bigger than the stuff it was tracking - resulting in "page fatigue" that shut everything down to a crawl.

A problem that crops up more and more often with upgrades, is that most BIOS chips/motherboard combinations have a "maximum addressable" limit, that may not let one put enough RAM in an old machine to be able to run the next version effectively. You can't always assume you can just plug in another chip. That's one of the reasons it's worth keeping the User Manual.

John