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- From: jaylord@rcinet.com (Jay Schamus)
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- Subject: Re: NT WoW turned off (Was: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? )
- Date: 22 Feb 1996 03:48:59 GMT
- Organization: Dayton Microcomputer Association; Dayton, Ohio, USA
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- In <312B510B.3CB4@mts.se>, Martin Nisshagen <martin@mts.se> writes:
- >Thane Walkup wrote:
- >
- >> >Starting with a computer with a mere 4M in it, I want to upgrade to NT
- >> >(for the example only!). I would need to buy 28 M at $50/M
- >
- >You only need to buy 4Mb (for a total of (Mb) if your not intend to use
- >several monster (read office) apps like Word6 at the same time.
- >
- >I runned NT WS fine in 8Mb only after disabling the automatic load of the
- >Win16 subsystem.
- >
- >Disabling WoW saves about 4-6 Mb in NT.
- >
- >Disable it under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/WindowsNT/Current
- >Version/Winlogon/Userinit: REG_SZ : userinit,nddeagnt.exe,win.com wowexec
- >
- >Just remove win.com wowexec from the above registry key.
- >
- >Now NT runs OK in only 8Mb if You don't use to many huge apps!
- >m a r t i n n
- >
-
- Is it just me, or are you saying that, basically NT runs fine in 8 meg as long
- as you don't run anything!!! Well, at least not anything useful. No win16, no
- wordprocessors, spreadsheets, database, graphics apps or games (like you'd want
- run games under NT with ANY amount of memory). I've run NT on a machine with
- 16 meg and it ran like a snail on qualudes. I shudder to think what it's like
- with only 8 megs. Nap time!! :-)
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- | Jay Schamus
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- | "And the mouse police never sleeps"
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