Amiga os3.9 vs Windows XP (ram usage)

[Glaucus]

@restore2003,

Well, perhaps that's what you need, or perhaps you just need to clean up some of your services. Here's a good start: Windows XP Home and Professional Service Configurations. And be sure to setup a second Hardware Profile to preserve the original services configuration: Windows XP Services Profile Guide. It's not that hard, and once you learn how to use services.msc you'll be able to tweak your system a lot better.

Other tools worth getting is SysInternal's AutoRuns and even HijackThis (the latter is great for tracking down spyware as well). Just be careful how you use these tools, otherwise you may be forced to do a complete re-install!  :-)

  - Mike

[restore2003]

@glaucus:

Yay! Thanks!  :afro:  :pint:

I guess im better at tweaking the amigaos than windows  :-)

[Hammer]

Dammy, why does my favorite game run slower on XP then ME...

What game do you run? What kind of hardware do you have?

[Hammer]

what apps are out there that support DVD burning

Ulead Studio 7 SE and Ahead Nero 6.

Open source

Refer to http://www.k3b.org

"K3b is a CD and DVD burning application for Linux systems optimized for KDE."

[mikeymike]

I can reduce Win2k/XP's memory usage to between 35 and 90 MB, depending on things like driver size variations.

There are install guides on my site you might want to have a quick run-through (www.legolas.com/wac/), aside from getting the usual crap from running on startup.

When picking new hardware for PCs I tend to check how big the driver downloads are... souncards with 20MB drivers for example aren't my first choice :-)

[Hammer]

Sorry but today so called true Amigans seem to be WinUAE users. Nothing wrong in that, but Windows can't be that bad then.

The Windows product itself is not quite the issue i.e. its Microsoft’s business practises. If one looks at the mirror, Amiga related companies such as Amiga Inc (Bill Ewen) and Genesi (Bill Buck) has their own issues.  

If one looks at the mirror, Amiga related companies such as Amiga Inc (Bill Ewen) and Genesi (Bill Buck) has their own issues.  

Note that, the Amiga use to the reputation for the usage for cut edge technology.  

[Roj]

Sorry but today so called true Amigans seem to be WinUAE users. Nothing wrong in that, but Windows can't be that bad then.

Guess again, if only just for me.

Amiga4000 Power Tower, 2MB Chip - 16MB Fast
CyberStormPPC 68060/60MHz 604e/233MHz 128MB
CyberVisionPPC Graphics, Toccata Audio
PFS3, Algor USB, GVP I/O Extender
Canon BJC 250, Plextor CDRW
Samsung 171v Flatscreen Monitor
AmigaOS 3.9 BB2

[Roj]

You can make comparisons how much less IBrowse needs than IE, but then IE can do CSS and Java and everything else.

Somehow I doubt that IBrowse with CSS and decent enough plugin capability to allow for things like Java "and everything else" will be anywhere near the size of IE. I could be wrong, but I'd have to see it before I believed it.

[darksun9210]

ok, imagine while booting up an operating system, starting a graphics engine as complex as explorer, and copying most if not all of your operating system into ram? or virtual ram?
all at the same time.
sounds painfull. thats why you have a 200mb cache from your virtual memory. one word. fonts. if you have a stack load of fonts installed, its going to slow your boot time considerably, as its loading all these things into ram, and paging into virtual memory.

have a look on www.tweekxp.com for ideas on how to optimize your system services etc.

as for the network thing, the network services tcp stacks (browse master, etc) stuff only takes about a few meg of ram
and the USB stack can fit in a meg or so too. so nothing really to worry about....

[nEx]

That´s an Amiga Forum right ?? ...

The real Amiga Hardware is just right for my pleasures. I don´t need any WinUAE ... Only AmigaOS and my Linux ;-))

[mikeymike]

as for the network thing, the network services tcp stacks (browse master, etc) stuff only takes about a few meg of ram and the USB stack can fit in a meg or so too. so nothing really to worry about....

On XP, I save between 30 and 50 megs of RAM by stopping unnecessary services.  On win2k I usually see reductions of about 20MB.

[whabang]

I ran XP on 64 megs of RAM when a memory unit failed. By tweaking the OS I managed to cut down memory usage to 38 megs bu shutting down unneccesary services and minimizing the disk cache and the icon cache. Running without ActiveDesktop objects and wallpaper helps a lot.

It should be noted that that machine was used for surfing only, and there was no printer attatched to it.