Need a Win9x memory monitor

**TOAD6147** · August 10th, 2002, 01:10 PM

Can anyone recommend a utility for monitoring memory in a Win9x environment? My fawther-in-law's computer has 256 MB's RAM and at idle has only 2% available according to RAMBooster. I need to know what's eating it all so we can disable some of the garbage. I know he has Lotus123 running as well as someother suites but not exactly sure. Any help appreciated.

**TOAD6147** · August 10th, 2002, 01:35 PM

PLEEASEE!!

**NeoStarO1** · August 10th, 2002, 02:00 PM

Doesn't the task manager show what proccesses are running and the percentage of memory its taking???

Been a while since used 98 so can't remember for sure if the task manager shows that. I know it does on 2k

**TOAD6147** · August 10th, 2002, 02:37 PM

I wasn't aware Win9x had TaskManagers.

**NeoStarO1** · August 10th, 2002, 02:46 PM

hmmmm, like I said its been a while since I used 9x OS's but doesn't it show processes running when you do a contol, alt, delete? And aslso show how much mem and cpu processes are being used.

I guess not, I just spoke to someone, guess in 9x you can only kill processes.

I used to use maxmem years ago, i allowed you to control the usage and clean out mem to free up mem. Don't think you want that cuz you want to find what is hogging up resources.

Heres is maxmems site anyways.
MaxMem

Description of MaxMem

Description: Ensure that you always have as much physical memory available as possible with this memory-management utility. Set minimum amounts of memory to be made available under certain circumstances, and this program will passively monitor how system resources are being used. It runs in the system tray and shows exactly how much memory is available, as well as graphs that illustrate how you've been using memory over the last 60 seconds

I'll keep looking and see what else i can find.

**Pingman08** · August 10th, 2002, 02:56 PM

First Run Msconfig.exe in your C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM folder... I'm guessing that windows is on his C: drive. Go to the startup tab on top and Take a look at what's all running at startup and kill all the unnecessary "junk" that doesn't need to run by unchecking it...Your system will need to reboot afterwards...Then switch your memory manager to : MAXMEM from Analog X(It's a lot better) instead of Ram Booster... here's the link to the download:

http://www.analogx.com/contents/down...tem/maxmem.htm

Have a good one!

**NeoStarO1** · August 10th, 2002, 02:57 PM

Hmmmm found something else that might work.

Called MPower

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...d,16880,00.asp

edit: this one states you can actually see what is hoging up your resources and help free them up.

Max mem is good too but won't show what cpu usage is either.

**Pingman08** · August 10th, 2002, 03:00 PM

Just do what I said in the previous post and you'll be GOLDEN...

**NeoStarO1** · August 10th, 2002, 03:08 PM

Originally posted by TOAD6147
I need to know what's eating it all so we can disable some of the garbage.

He already knows how to get rid of garbage, needs a utility to see what is hogging is resources of memory and possibley cpu usage.

**Pingman08** · August 10th, 2002, 03:14 PM

That's funny cause all you NEED to know is what Apps are running at startup...You can tell what other Apps are running after startup by writing down on a piece of paper what Apps you opened...geez

**Pingman08** · August 10th, 2002, 03:19 PM

If you want to monitor you CPU go to www.tucows.com , go into their windows section, and do a search on: cpu. You'll find a bunch of apps there that will help you on that...

**NeoStarO1** · August 10th, 2002, 03:20 PM

might not be a start up application that eatting up his memory, could be an application that is memory intensive and he won't see which ones they are unless its running and he can see which one is hogging up resources.

So before going in and disabling startup items, it does help to know which ones are causing the problems.

Many grapic desgin programs are not in the start up menu but are mem hogs.

**Pingman08** · August 10th, 2002, 03:21 PM

Active CPU 1.12 & Win9x/ME Task Manager 1.0.7 are just a couple of them there and they are both Freeware.

**Pingman08** · August 10th, 2002, 03:22 PM

They would still show up in MSCONFIG if you would just try it...

**NeoStarO1** · August 10th, 2002, 03:24 PM

Originally posted by Pingman08
They would still show up in MSCONFIG if you would just try it...

Yes you are right they would show up in Msconfig, however it will not show the mem or cpu usage as like i does in 2k and XP. Dunno about ME, never used ME.

**Pingman08** · August 10th, 2002, 03:27 PM

ok...then you might want to try Active CPU 1.12 & Win9x/ME Task Manager 1.0.7 from the tucows site...they are both very small apps that should do the trick...

**Pingman08** · August 10th, 2002, 03:28 PM

Plus both apps are Rated very Highly... 4 cows and 5 cows respectively...

**pgriffet** · August 10th, 2002, 06:08 PM

Hi try Wintop from MS, it can help.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/d.../w95kerneltoy/ (55 Kb).
Direct download : http://www.microsoft.com/windows/dow...95KRNLTOYS.EXE
Do no pay attention to the warning about Win98, Wintop is safe to use in any version of Windows.
Just install it via the wintop.inf file and see what program or process keeps your system busy.
It shows CPU usage of all programs running, even those which are not visible when you do CTRL+ALT+DEL.

Pierre.

**DLR37919** · August 10th, 2002, 06:41 PM

get memturbo it'll monitor and if needed free up memory its needed for the via 133a chipsets bad memory management.EDIT:should also have added that it runs on task bar so you are always able to see how much ram is available.heres the site:http://www.memturbo.com/downloads.htm

**NDC** · August 10th, 2002, 06:55 PM

Personally, I like RAM Booster which I always used under Windows 9x for monitoring and recovery purpose. I still use it under Windows 2000 and XP just for monitoring. The screen is quite convenient to read ina glance.