Eric, Not totally sure if you were referring to me or Babs, but as far as me, the compatability mode will not work with a number of older programs, especially if they need real mode capacity, as well as a number of older utility programs, especially if they are involved with hard drive activity or similiar operations, which is one of the major ones I am trying to use.
Ralph "Eric C. Vogel" wrote: > > Have you tried compatibiliy mode on thoughs programs? > Thank you, > Eric Vogel > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "BubblyBabs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 2:14 PM > Subject: Re: PCWorks: Running WinXP with 512 Meg Ram - How effective??? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "rb47" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 12:33 PM > > Subject: PCWorks: Running WinXP with 512 Meg Ram - How effective??? > > > > > > > To one and all, > > > > > > I have found that I am running into a very frustrating situation with > > > having to have my system dual boot with Win98SE and WinXP Pro. > > > > > > Turns out due to the 98 issue, I can not put more than the current 512 > > > Megs of ram in the system, though I followed the way to do things as > > > given in the Microsoft support database on what to do - seems you just > > > can NOT run a system having 98 with more than 512 Megs of ram. I bought > > > and installed another 512 Megs of ram, and got lockups, and all kinds of > > > other problems like I could not believe, so had to go back to the > > > original 512 Megs. of ram to get things stable. > > > > > > So the question I have deals with running XP with just 512 Megs of ram - > > > how effectively does XP work with this amount of ram??? > > > > > > The issues I am potentially going to have to deal with involve editing > > > audio and video files in XP, and this is especially one area I dont know > > > how much potential problem would I be facing with just having the 512 > > > Megs of ram. I have over 300 Gigs of hard drive space to work with from > > > that standpoint, so hopefully XP would effectively use that space whan > > > ram was not available. I know it is not like the speed of ram but not > > > much I can do on that issue it would seem. > > > > > > Well, everything I've found so far states you can only use 512 of RAM for > Win98... I had considered doing a dual boot the next time > > I have to reinstall windows (I have WinXP but some of my older programs I > really like won't work w/ WinXP) but I have 1gb ram and > > plan to go up to 2gb... I may not dual boot then if this is an issue... > > > > I do know that the more ram you have for video editing the better... A few > thinga I do know are to make sure your scratch disk isn't > > too big and to make sure it's on a different disk (physically seperate HD) > than the one you are editing on... > > > > Sorry, I'm not much help! > > > > Babs ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
