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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 09:56:42 +0500 (MVT)
From: Prashant TR <prashant_tr AT yahoo DOT com>
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To: Chris Jones <cj7 AT ukc DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Win 2000 & Djgpp
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Chris Jones wrote:

> Yeah - well, I'm running Win2000 with 64 Mb of RAM and it's a very happy
> bunny. What I don't understand is how when it's idle, with no applications
> running, the task manager reports the memory in use as 46 Mb - how can it
> use so much just for its kernel + explorer?

It reports how much memory was available to Windows when it booted up.
Maybe you've installed a RAM drive or some other application which uses up
extended memory before it can get to Windows.

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