I cannot complete a dialer hookup.

[Guest]

I had to reinstall Win 2000 Pro and now I cannot complete a dialer hookup.
Following the Internet Wizard, I provided a telephone number, user name and
password. I tried to provide a name for the dialer but it was not accepted. I
tried various names but none would work. I followed the instructions for
naming, but all came up invalid. What can I do??? Thanks in advance for any
help.

 

[Bill Baka]

I was just wondering if anyone had ever heard of or thought of a way too
compress dll's and exe's that are going into memory and sucking up so
much of it. Poking around inside of most dll's there is mostly zeros for
padding but they take up memory. Pkzip or winzip (winrar) will all
compress most system files by a fairly large amount. Couldn't this be
done on the fly by the CPU a whole lot faster than swapping to a disk? I
mean what are all those GHz good for if you can't take advantage of
them? Is this too obvious or just something Microsoft doesn't want to do
so memory sales and bigger hard drives are always needed? Back in the
days of DOS, like 1990, there was a program called pklite which
compressed the files size on the hard drive. The files were then
dynamically decompressed when called upon for a task.

It sure would be nice to not have to have 512MB or more of memory for
best performance and not have to use a hard disk swap at all.

Any thoughts on this?
Bill Baka

 

[Bob I]

The instructions need to be "uncompressed" for the CPU to process them.
The CPU would have to "compress AND decompress" for every pagefile
operation. PKlite is a "subset" of PKZIP which is still in use today.
Now IF you can't afford cheap memory and insist on using a 4500 rpm hard
drive and are running a 3.8 ghz HT cpu, then compressing the pagefile
may offer a speed increase. Otherwise upgrading the memory and not
loading every program that was on the HD at boottime is enough to get by
with todays hardware. Please be aware that there are various
"RAMboosters", "RAMoptimizers" etc. available to seperate you from your
money. You're better off buying memory with the money and they are a
waste of time and effort on todays hardware.

 

[Bill Baka]

The instructions need to be "uncompressed" for the CPU to process them.
The CPU would have to "compress AND decompress" for every pagefile
operation. PKlite is a "subset" of PKZIP which is still in use today.
Now IF you can't afford cheap memory and insist on using a 4500 rpm hard
drive and are running a 3.8 ghz HT cpu, then compressing the pagefile
may offer a speed increase. Otherwise upgrading the memory and not
loading every program that was on the HD at boottime is enough to get by
with todays hardware. Please be aware that there are various
"RAMboosters", "RAMoptimizers" etc. available to seperate you from your
money. You're better off buying memory with the money and they are a
waste of time and effort on todays hardware.

It is a temporary shortage of money thing. I had a 256MB stick that took
out my memory and am running now on only 128 MB which beats up my hard
drive badly. I still think is it ridiculous to load so much DLL junk
into the memory, especially when a lot of it is redundant, like
svchost.exe, one of the main offenders. When I get the money this system
is going up to 3 GB and that should be end of story. I will probably
take the upper 1 GB and make a ramdrive and use that for my swap file
unless there is a big bad danger to that. I have tried ram boosters even
when I had more memory and they don't impress me. I had an earlier
computer with 768 MB and the hard drives almost never got hit. Indexing
is off since I don't want my drive powering up just for indexing to do
its hourly (10 minute?) search of all 3 drives. Thats pretty much the
story, I don't like storing 100 MB of zeros and DLLs that may or may not
be called up. I know this is a windows group but I am playing with Red
Hat 7.0 and it only takes up a total of 60 MB. Maybe if I fill it up
with applications it will achieve the same thing as windows. I am just
learning so I can't give an educated comment on Linux (yet).
Thanks,
Bill Baka

 

[Bob I]

And I repeat

"not loading every program that was on the HD at boottime is enough to
get by with todays hardware"

That includes "services" you don't use or need.