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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: WIN3 memory fragmentation
Message-ID: <2069020@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Date: 22 Feb 91 03:05:46 GMT
References: <2606.27c462bf@incstar.uucp>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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In article <2606.27c462bf@incstar.uucp> noyce@incstar.uucp writes:
>Just a general question - It appears that if you work in Win 3.0 for
>a long time, doing multiple document open/close, either in Excel 2.1d
>or Word 4 Windows, that eventually, memory gets so fragmented, that
>Win 3.0 appears to 'run out' of memory.  

One solution is to install the shareware "Freemem" utility from Metz.
Not only does it put a little free-memory monitor windowlet on your
desktop, it has an option to globally compact memory every N seconds.
This garbage collects useless old crufty memory fragments and leaves
your kitchen shining bright. >*zing!*<  Oops, wrong commercial.  Anyway,
try it.  I have no connection to Metz except as an insufferably smug
customer, but I must say these people are doing something right.

I'm not sure 'metz-fm.zip' on cica is the most up to date version, but
that's a start.

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