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From: jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: How do I increase "Free system resources"
Message-ID: <6176@hsv3.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 90 23:38:22 GMT
References: <49970@olivea.atc.olivetti.com> <3130042@hplsla.HP.COM>
Reply-To: jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman)
Organization: Video Seven / Headland Technology
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In article <3130042@hplsla.HP.COM> tonyd@hplsla.HP.COM (Tony DeMartino) writes:
>If you haven't already done so, you can increase the size of your RAM or
>you can increase the size of your swap file by making it permanent. Your
>manual describes the installation of a permanent swap file in the Tuning 
>Windows section.

He could do this, but this won't solve his problem.  "System resources"
and free memory are two very different things.

Windows has a several things which you can only have a limited number
of.  The most restrictive is probably that you can only have 8192 windows.
(Before you say, "Boy, that's a lot!" think for a minute.  Every dialog
box control, icon, icon title, scroll bar, etc. is a window.  You can use
up a lot of them in one application.)  There is no way to increase this
number, except maybe waiting for Windows 3.1.  (I don't know if they plan
to increase this or not.)


-- 
Jim Seidman (Drax), the accidental engineer.
"It doesn't have to work... they'll be paralyzed just from laughing at me."
							- Dr. Who, _Shada_
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