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- From: cgreen@sersun1.essex.ac.uk (Green ISBD C)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: Why do I see Kbytes instead of Mbytes ?
- Message-ID: <7121@sersun1.essex.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 08:57:06 GMT
- References: <kaustell.95@viikki.Helsinki.FI>
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- From article <kaustell.95@viikki.Helsinki.FI>, by kaustell@viikki.Helsinki.FI (KIM OLAVI KAUSTELL (MATEK)):
- > HI all !
- >
- > I ran into this strange problem of Windows Help/About.. showing, I only have
- > 7...10 KB free memory and 68 % free system resources. All win-programs show
- > the same: the numeric value is in the reasonable range but it's certainly
- >
- I had this too, it's because the free memory display has a bug which
- can't cope with European format numbers. If you switch to US format for
- numbers (Control Panel - International I think) then you get the right
- value displayed for free memory.
-
- All that's happening is that the free memory display is stopping at what
- it sees as a delimiter before the decimal part of the number which is in
- fact a separator between the thousands. So it displays 1000 times less
- memory than you actually have free.
-
- Chris Green
- cgreen@axion.bt.co.uk (work at British Telecom)
- cgreen@essex.ac.uk (guest account at Essex University)
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