what's wrong with my W2K computer

Total physical memory 130,612 Kb.
Available physical memory 4.472 Kb
Total virtual memory 319,380 Kb
Available virtual memory 10,272 Kb.

All I'm running is Netscape and Administrative Tool's Computer Management window.

I almost bought another 128 Mb of memory for it, but even that doesn't look like it would be enough.

What's eating all my RAM?

Do a "CTRL-ALT-DELETE" then go into "Task Manager".

Check the "Processes" tab. Each process listed uses some resources.

You can do a GOOGLE.com search on the process name to see what it does and whether you can or should "End Process".

Hope that helps...

GameChannel.exe (I hate that one) that ties up a lot of memory. You'll probably find that if you go get Spybot or AdAware and run either/or/both, you'll clean out a lot of crap that's using up your memory.

Spybot and AdAware are must haves...

isn't much memory by today's standards, I'm at 1 gig and still need more. To answer your question, look at the process tab in task manager and you can see how much memory each process is using. Chances are you have a memory leak in one of your running processes.

Buy some more memory, it's almost as cheap as dirt.

I don't know if it still is but I suspect that it is.

in a windoze environment. Gee, I wonder why?

you may only have 28MB left right after you boot. I believe 96MB was the minimum for W2K.

I've tried it.

Heck, a co-worker tried Win2k with only 16MB of RAM. He didn't believe me when I told him 64MB is minimum, otherwise it WILL run that SLOWLY, if at all. :eyes: Oh well. He wondered why the hard disk was churning so much... !!!

On machines I deal with at work, Win2k usually eats over 100MB of RAM just for itself.

And regardless of how much RAM you do have, any spare memory, by default, often goes to file caching (keeping files open in system RAM for quicker access).

Of course, spyware and the other crap that's been mentioned waste precious RAM so do use AdAware, et al, to keep the computer clean.

Also check your computer for Trojans and get a firewall program (NOrton Internet Security for Winbloat, and SuSE Linux has its own excellent firewall bundled with itself) installed so nobody can install them on your computer without you knowing in the future; and get a Trojan cleaner to remove existing ones (do a google search, there are demo versions and tryout versions so don't buy unless you need to). (Also, the luzers at Best Buy who claim to have 2 year degrees and such say a firewall isn't important for 56k users. Having seen what sort of antics are attempted on my computer, it sure as hell IS important. For everybody!)

the problem is a virus called Windows. Remove that and install linux and you'll be ok.

With the GUI enabled in Linux, RAM resources are almost comparable (though Linux comes ahead). But that aside, everything about Linux is much faster.

they don't make flight simulator or cakewalk for linux otherwise I'd switch over in a minute. Note the avatar.