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RadiationAngel posted 06-10-99 12:42 PM ET
Hi folks,
since Update 3.0 Quitting SMAC gives me a greenframed Startbutton in Win95 (A)
PC AMD k6 233 64 MB Elsa Vic. Erazor
MichaeltheGreat posted 06-10-99 02:59 PM ET
I haven't worked on Win95 for a while, but do you have the kernel update installed? - it fixes a memory leak that is worse than what MS says. The link is:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/contents/wuadmintools/s_wunetworkingtools/w95kernel32/default.asp?site=95
The kernel update was incorporated into Win95 OSR 2 and OSR 2.5 (versions b and c) but did NOT get included in Service Pack1

Also try memturbo at www.memturbo.com
At 64 meg of ram, win95/98 does NOT fully load itelf into ram, and uses swapfile. That type of behavior - colorization, no icons or icon substitution, etc. is normally caused by excessive ram and swap file fragmentation. Norton utilies 3.0 and higher will optimize your swap file, and I prefer disabling automatic VM management and going to a permanent swap file size - set the minimum and max values the same, and you create a permanent swap file. 256 MB works best. Note that Windows defrag will NOT defragment the swap file.
Hope this helps.
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Author	Topic: Quit Smac
RadiationAngel	posted 06-10-99 12:42 PM ET Hi folks, since Update 3.0 Quitting SMAC gives me a greenframed Startbutton in Win95 (A) PC AMD k6 233 64 MB Elsa Vic. Erazor
MichaeltheGreat	posted 06-10-99 02:59 PM ET I haven't worked on Win95 for a while, but do you have the kernel update installed? - it fixes a memory leak that is worse than what MS says. The link is: http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/contents/wuadmintools/s_wunetworkingtools/w95kernel32/default.asp?site=95 The kernel update was incorporated into Win95 OSR 2 and OSR 2.5 (versions b and c) but did NOT get included in Service Pack1 Also try memturbo at www.memturbo.com At 64 meg of ram, win95/98 does NOT fully load itelf into ram, and uses swapfile. That type of behavior - colorization, no icons or icon substitution, etc. is normally caused by excessive ram and swap file fragmentation. Norton utilies 3.0 and higher will optimize your swap file, and I prefer disabling automatic VM management and going to a permanent swap file size - set the minimum and max values the same, and you create a permanent swap file. 256 MB works best. Note that Windows defrag will NOT defragment the swap file. Hope this helps.