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From: tmurphy%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Thomas Murphy)
Subject: Re: A question about Windows
Date: 8 Jun 91 20:41:27 MDT
Message-ID: <1991Jun8.204127.855@hellgate.utah.edu>
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept., Salt Lake City
References: <1991Jun9.020012.19291@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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In article <1991Jun9.020012.19291@beaver.cs.washington.edu> kailun@cs.washington.edu writes:
>
>Hi,
>
>I am running Windows 3.0 on my 386.  After opening several windows, I 
>found that my hard drive would run for a few seconds every time when I
>selected the Program Manager.  Is it the so-called 'swapping' process?
>Will it help if I add more RAM on my PC? I received my computer just
>two days ago, so I know little about Windows.
>
Yes and Yes.  If you have the program manager up you can see just how much
space you have left in memory at each step too.  More ram will allow you 
to have more open without swapping to the hardisk and you can also make
your swapdisk a ram drive.  



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