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Edit: Question Answered! Ram Question

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I am trying to help a friend who just got a job in an office. Boss said he will upgrade computer anyway she needs basically to get the job done.

Computer is running Win95 and only has 32 Ram. Drive is 4 gig has over 3 gig free. System resource free is 52%

Computer is running but slow. When using word can't do anything else.

I told her she needed more RAM. Is 256 enough? Anything else to suggest looking at?

I told her upgrade from 95 as well and she laughed.

edit: where is the best place to get RAM right now.

Thanks!
 
More info would be useful, such as type of CPU and ram.

With Win95, 32 meg and a 4 gig HD, we could be looking at even a 486 and EDO ram or worse.

256 would be lots in any event, but with some earlier Pentium chipsets, more than 64 makes it run slower!
 
Originally posted by: tenoc
More info would be useful, such as type of CPU and ram.

With Win95, 32 meg and a 4 gig HD, we could be looking at even a 486 and EDO ram or worse.

256 would be lots in any event, but with some earlier Pentium chipsets, more than 64 makes it run slower!
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yes very true..GH is the proper place for this and not in OffTopic..needs a faster overall machine but if she laughed ..just shrug your shoulders..roll your eyes and forget..upgrading the whole is easier than just the ram and OS

 
Win95 with 32 megs of ram should be adequate for running word.

Check & disable unnecessary start up & system processes to see if it helps.

Office 2000 will run a little slower on Win95 with a few unfix bugs, and Office97 have an ?file is in use error? that will also make it slow to load (I have seen it take 30 second to load on a 1.6ghz & 512meg ram machine). The fix for Office 2000 is to upgrade to at lease Win98SE as suggested by MS. Office97 is legacy ware therefore no fix will be added for it, and MS suggest upgrading to Office 2000 for the ?file in use error??this error can be fix by reinstall Office97 & patches, but will be ah heck up by some Win2k/XP update.

After optimizes your computer services you could also drop down to using WordPad or some other lighter weight word processor, or purchase a new computer. Because, that computer is very likely to have EDO or FM ram & at 128 megs (if the mother board could take that much) could cost more than a new computer.

Check Walmart, Dell to see how low computer price can be.
 
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