Comments on: Taming Windows 95/98/98SE/ME Out of Memory Errors https://dfarq.homeip.net/taming-windows-959898seme-memory-errors/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=taming-windows-959898seme-memory-errors David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Thu, 19 Jun 2025 15:21:42 +0000 hourly 1 By: glaurungquena https://dfarq.homeip.net/taming-windows-959898seme-memory-errors/#comment-43668 Sat, 08 Apr 2017 07:39:31 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=3727#comment-43668 Actually, windows 9x won’t work with more than 1gb of RAM. That’s in addition to the disk cache bug. You can work around it by telling it to not use all the RAM in the system, but that seems a bit pointless.

cf https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030814-00/?p=42903

]]> By: Dave Farquhar https://dfarq.homeip.net/taming-windows-959898seme-memory-errors/#comment-43667 Sat, 08 Apr 2017 03:02:17 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=3727#comment-43667 In reply to jim~.

I’m pretty sure some of the third-party defragmenters from the utility suites for Win9x could do that. Think Norton Utilities, but there were others at the time too. If they could, it’s in my old book. But that’s mostly trivia now.

It might have also been possible to create a small partition at the front of the drive, install Windows to drive D, then redirect swap to the smaller drive C. I can’t think of a reason that wouldn’t have worked, not that I’m going to mess around with trying it…

]]> By: jim~ https://dfarq.homeip.net/taming-windows-959898seme-memory-errors/#comment-43666 Fri, 07 Apr 2017 20:07:50 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=3727#comment-43666 Reminds me of the time I was trying to put the swap file of a Win95/Win98 machine at the beginning of the disk for faster access. I asked around and around to no avail. Finally some smart-ass told me any time I’d save had already been wasted by trying to figure out how to do it!

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