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From: Walt <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Wish list item
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 12:09:41 -0400
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At 11:15 AM 8/06/2004, Terry Reigel wrote:
>On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 10:43:00 -0400, Walt wrote:
>
> > Both Windows XP and TMG 5 like a lot of memory. My
> > recommendation would be that you figure on 1 to 1.5
> > gigabytes of memory to run TMG 5 under XP. A computer
> > which you are upgrading to XP will in most cases take a
> > maximum of 512 MB (that is, half a gigabyte).
> >
> > I'm sure that it is possible to run TMG 5 under XP on
> > less memory than I suggest but I feel strongly that it
> > would be happier and run faster with this amount of
> > memory. With a maximum of 512 MB it would be better to
> > use Win 98 (or Win ME if that is the operating system
> > that came installed on your computer).
> >
> > Have any of you had experience that says I am wrong about
> > this?
>
>I ran WinXP for some time with half a gig of memory. Normally I had
>two copies of TMG5 (beta and regular) TMG4, e-mail client, and browser
>all open, also often Word and other programs. I was disappointed that
>I couldn't seem much difference when I upgraded to a full Gig of RAM.
>But my "test" was entirely subjective - I didn't try to actually
>objectively measure any differences.


Terry

Thanks for the information.

I have a friend who has been talking about upgrading an older machine (512
MB max) to XP, and my brother has gone from very slow to crashing with a
large FTM database running under XP with 256 MB.

Your information and Paul's should be of interest to both of them in terms
of how much memory might be required.

Walt

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