Hi everyone,
I recently ditched Win2000 because I was tired of jumping through hoops to get software working. So, I am currently running Win98SE.
Celeron533A, Asus P2B, 128 MB generic RAM,
GTS, SIIG 1394 PCI card, SB Live MP3+,
PCI NIC, ISA NIC, Aopen 36x CD, HP 7500 CDRW,
Western Digital 15.3 7200 and 5.1 5400 drives.
The OS and swap file are on the fast drive. The swap file is fixed at 256MB.
When I have several applications open and then go to open something new such as Photoshop or Wordperfect, the application doesn't open and in the system monitor the cpu usage stays at 100% for several minutes until the application opens. Everything else continues to work, I just can't get to my new application.
I am willing to buy more memory, but is that really the problem.
Several minutes of hangtime is longer than it would take to get stuff off the HDD, right?
Do I: a) buy another 128MB of memory, b) reinstall w2k on a different partition and dual boot c) Just don't run so much sh!t at once.
Thanks, Jeremy806
I recently ditched Win2000 because I was tired of jumping through hoops to get software working. So, I am currently running Win98SE.
Celeron533A, Asus P2B, 128 MB generic RAM,
GTS, SIIG 1394 PCI card, SB Live MP3+,
PCI NIC, ISA NIC, Aopen 36x CD, HP 7500 CDRW,
Western Digital 15.3 7200 and 5.1 5400 drives.
The OS and swap file are on the fast drive. The swap file is fixed at 256MB.
When I have several applications open and then go to open something new such as Photoshop or Wordperfect, the application doesn't open and in the system monitor the cpu usage stays at 100% for several minutes until the application opens. Everything else continues to work, I just can't get to my new application.
I am willing to buy more memory, but is that really the problem.
Several minutes of hangtime is longer than it would take to get stuff off the HDD, right?
Do I: a) buy another 128MB of memory, b) reinstall w2k on a different partition and dual boot c) Just don't run so much sh!t at once.
Thanks, Jeremy806