If you are already in the possession of memory chips that will fit
your machine there, then upgrade the RAM by all means. If you do
not, then - and anyone who knows me knows I am very slow to suggest
this sort of thing - rather than spending money on additional memory
chips, I would recommend getting a new machine that can run a newer
operating system. You can already get a machine capable of running
win xp and speech in the 200 to 300 Euro bracket and memory chips for
your 98 machine might cost you a third to half of that. Thus I think
a new machine would be well worth the investment. Additionally, win
98 se is no longer supported by microsoft and thus is a potential
security risk.
I realize that upgrading the hardware might not be an option. In that
case, you can try the following:
1. go thru the entries in msconfig and make sure that any program or
process that is not absolutely essential is not loaded automatically
at startup. You need to be careful with this though as turning off
the wrong processes might keep a machine from booting properly. Thus
if you are not comfortable with messing around with this stuff, get a
computer savvy friend to help you.
2. If possible at all, run your speech package with a hardware
synthesizer rather than with software speech. You can get older
hardware sytnhs that work with win 9x only often very cheap or even
for free. See that you run a version of your speech package that is
tailored for the win 9x operating system. for win 98, I'd recommend
jaws 3.7 or maybe 4.5 but nothing higher as the newer jaws versions -
and I assume the same is true for newer versions of other speech
packages - take up more resources.
3. Only have the program open that you work with at the time, i.e.
when you do email, your email client, or when you surfthe Internet
your web browser.
4. Don't try to use the latest versions of either Winamp or Media
Player. if you used Winamp, I'd recommend using version 2.95, the
last of the 2.x series. the 2.x series of winamp is a lot easier on
the resources than the newer versions.
www.oldversion.com
is your friend.
If you can at all, though, I'd raid that piggy bank for something newer.
Cheers,
Doris
At 08:22 PM 8/14/2006 +1000, you wrote:
Hi List Members, I have just started downloading M P 3 music files via a ,F T P Server,, and I am experiencing what I would describe as buffering!. I am playing them directly from the hard drive useing ,Windows media player, first up I am useing Win 98 s e, with only a P 2 prosesser and just 64 meg's of ram, would such meager resourses be the main problem ?,if so apart from upgradeing the ram etc,is their something I can do to improve matters ?thanking you in anticipation.Alan
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