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- From: rrempel@selkirk.sfu.ca (Rodney Dwight Rempel)
- Subject: Re: Puzzler: Windows 3.0 eats itself slowly...
- Message-ID: <rrempel.714609105@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1992Aug23.165640.15688@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <4904@sumax.seattleu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 22:31:45 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- grtorlba@sumax.seattleu.edu (George Torralba) writes:
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- >In article <1992Aug23.165640.15688@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> aa330@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Neil Gould) writes:
- >>
- >>
- >>In trying to solve a couple of problems, I noticed that applications were
- >>not freeing all resources on closing in Win 3.0. Is there a way to "force-free"
- >>resources upon closing applications? This problem occurs with most apps, and
- >>none of them are non-commercial, pro apps, so, while I won't make any claims
- >>about how well written they may be, their integrity is probably typical of the
- >>best Windows apps.
- >>
- >>--
-
- >I was also going to post the same problem(?) I have with Win 3.1. I have
- >Statline installed and it reports resource available (GDI or User?). Anyway,
- >as I go through my apps which include Excel, Word, WinRix, ProComm, and some
- >small utilities, the resource reported by Statline gradually decreases.
- >I have to restart Windows to get it all back again. Anybody else expriencing
- >this?
- B
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- Are you both sure that the resources truly aren't being returned. I have
- heard about resources being "fragmented" (please excuse my lack of correct
- Windows-jargon, I'm a Windows-programmer-weenie and plan to stay that way), and
- therefore being unavailable until they are "compressed" back into a single
- usable lump through some magic system call. I vaguely remember seeing a
- shareware program called FREEMEM somewhere that performed this service while
- monitoring your available resources ... good luck.
-
- Rod Rempel - rrempel@sfu.ca
- Department of Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University
- ... if two million people do a stupid thing it's still a stupid thing.
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