Am I Memory Poor?

Ken,
Thank you very much. Obviously I am learning as I go. I was imagining
having to upgrade to more memory. What would I expect to see reported if I
upgraded to 1 gb of memory?
Xray
"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake.TakeThisOut@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
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> Xray wrote:
>
>> I have a 3 year old Dell Dimension 6400 with 512 mb of ram. I am
>> running a memory monitor that I just found on Yahoo Widgets. It often
>> reports that I have between 15% and 30% memory available. Am I in a
>> position where things are slowing down because of it?
>
>
> No. That's no problem at all.
>
> Wanting to minimize the amount of memory Windows uses is a
> counterproductive desire. Windows is designed to use all, or nearly all,
> of your memory, all the time, and that's good not bad. Free memory is
> wasted memory. You paid for it all and shouldn't want to see any of it
> wasted.
>
> Windows works hard to find a use for all the memory you have all the time.
> For example if your apps don't need some of it, it will use that part for
> caching, then give it back when your apps later need it. In this way
> Windows keeps all your memory working for you all the time.
>
> --
> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>

Ken,
Thank you very much. Obviously I am learning as I go. I was imagining
having to upgrade to more memory. What would I expect to see reported if I
upgraded to 1 gb of memory?
Xray
"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake.TakeThisOut@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
news:u$vkLWPEHHA.996@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Xray wrote:
>
>> I have a 3 year old Dell Dimension 6400 with 512 mb of ram. I am
>> running a memory monitor that I just found on Yahoo Widgets. It often
>> reports that I have between 15% and 30% memory available. Am I in a
>> position where things are slowing down because of it?
>
>
> No. That's no problem at all.
>
> Wanting to minimize the amount of memory Windows uses is a
> counterproductive desire. Windows is designed to use all, or nearly all,
> of your memory, all the time, and that's good not bad. Free memory is
> wasted memory. You paid for it all and shouldn't want to see any of it
> wasted.
>
> Windows works hard to find a use for all the memory you have all the time.
> For example if your apps don't need some of it, it will use that part for
> caching, then give it back when your apps later need it. In this way
> Windows keeps all your memory working for you all the time.
>
> --
> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>