RAM Usage reduction

>-----Original Message-----
>System Info show Running 265 meg physical RAM, after
>initial boot / log-in, physical RAM available = only ~75
>meg, even this value varies from boot to boot. Questions:
>What is ideal physical RAM? Product box indicate 128 meg
>reccomemded, which appears to be incorrect.
>Is there a way to make more physical RAM available?
>
>Regards:
>
>.
>

512 is the bear minimal I would run in any win xp system
1gb os system mem is perferred.

[Patrick]

> 512 is the bear minimal I would run in any win xp system
> 1gb os system mem is perferred.

This is based on something?? You want to run Excel with 1 GB????????
This just doesn't make sense. 512MB is more than enough for normal use.

Regards,
Patrick

[jquiet]

I must be in really bad shape. I only have 256 MB on two systems and I video
edit, encode and develop software. One of them is a Media Center Edition.

> wrote in message
...
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >System Info show Running 265 meg physical RAM, after
> >initial boot / log-in, physical RAM available = only ~75
> >meg, even this value varies from boot to boot. Questions:
> >What is ideal physical RAM? Product box indicate 128 meg
> >reccomemded, which appears to be incorrect.
> >Is there a way to make more physical RAM available?
> >
> >Regards:
> >
> >.
> >
>
> 512 is the bear minimal I would run in any win xp system
> 1gb os system mem is perferred.