Nick, You also need more disk.
Windows 9x starts to get the shakes when it has less than 100MB of free scratch space to play in. RAM will help, but dropping a nice 2 or 4 GB drive in it will do wonders. Regards, Garry [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicholas C. Dalzell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 7:37 PM Subject: [SURVPC] Compaq Armada 1130 Laptop (RAM) > I am running quite a few windows (and dos) apps > on this box. The boot-up time is fast, but the > logon to the LAN or Local takes (dare I say it?) > 10 MINUTES!!! Most of that time is taken up by > system tray icons which I need to keep running for > the purpose of using my laptop--it is my lifestyle! > I need to have ActiveSYNC 3.1 running to use my > pocket PC anytime I wish, and the Office 2000 Shortcut bar > is my quick launch for my Word, Excel, etc., so I don't > have to wait the extra 2 Minutes to load the start menu! > I have some games that I like (sorry, game freaks, they don't > do LINUX!!!!), including Deer Avenger 1, M.A.M.E., and Atari ST, > TRS-80, and Atari 8-bit EMUs (I love to feel nostalgic!), and if > I could do more RAM, maybe I could have some more games that > relate to my favorite animal as well! I have AWS's Weatherbug, > to monitor my local weather for all my emergencies, and Media > Player 6.1 (I don't know why I even bothered installing that, > my laptop doesn't even come with built in sound!), and more! > The whole nine yards leaves me with about 90% of my 1.02GB > Hard Drive full! Most of the time it takes to even open an > email message via Outlook goes to listening to my Hard Drive > chatter and click while my PC locks up waiting for the chattering > to stop! Anyone see why my laptop has about 40% system resources left??? > Face it! I need more RAM!!!!! > > To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. > Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. > More info can be found at; > http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html > To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
