i have 512mb of ram but i thought win98 actually used up to 256 max. Do any memory managers speed up windows a little and help prevent crashes?
Actually, my research says that 512 MB of RAM works OK with Win98--beyond that, there are problems. The main problem is system resources, a precious commodity under Win9x. Win98, for example, has 128 KB areas of memory reserved for
System,
User, and
GDI. I use the following utilities in this context:
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TinyResMeter to monitor resources such as User/System/GDI, overall RAM, and CPU utilization. Free. Bonus: it works as a screen-grabber!
http://perso.accelance.net/~pesoft/trm/us_trm.html
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GoodMem both shows memory available
and provides a means of returning memory to the free pool, either automatically or manually with a double-click. Free.
MSI wrote it, but it works everywhere.
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/suppor...t_swr_list.php (go to the bottom of the page).
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ResMan combines features of both of the above programs. While I have not used it myself,
Entech Taiwan has some excellent utility software--
MultiRes, for example, is part of my default installation on every Windows system I touch. Here's the link (it's under the heading
Free software):
http://www.entechtaiwan.com.
Edit: I just played with ResMan for a while. While there's nothing wrong with it, I think I like the TinyResMeter/GoodMem/
PrcView combo better. I left the link, though, because my preferences may differ from yours.
PrcView process viewer:
http://www.teamcti.com/pview/prcview.htm 
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