Problem sharing printer with wireless laptop

[carlaz]

I have a DellB130. It was running slow, so I reset it to factory settings
and it is running fine. However, I can not get it to network back to my
printer. I have reinstalled my printer software and it prints find when it
is connected to the printer, but will not work wirelessly. I keep getting a
"communicationnot available" message. Does anyone have a solution to this
problem. Also, 1 other small ?. I see that my computer has only 5% of its
memory available, do it need to add more RAM?

Thanks,

Carla

 

[Big Al]

I have a DellB130. It was running slow, so I reset it to factory settings
and it is running fine. However, I can not get it to network back to my
printer. I have reinstalled my printer software and it prints find when it
is connected to the printer, but will not work wirelessly. I keep getting a
"communicationnot available" message. Does anyone have a solution to this
problem. Also, 1 other small ?. I see that my computer has only 5% of its
memory available, do it need to add more RAM?

Thanks,

Carla

I'll bite. How much ram do you have now? Others will need to know
too. And do you run a lot of memory hog programs, like edit a lot of 10
meg pixel images in photoshop?
Or do you play solitaire and write email to Mom? (thats not meant to
be a derogatory.)

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Where is it telling you that you only have 5% memory available? Are you
sure that it is not storage that you are seeing?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I see that my computer has only 5% of its
memory available, do it need to add more RAM?

That does not indicate any sort of problem at all. Wanting to minimize
the amount of memory Windows uses is a counterproductive desire.
Windows is designed to use all, or most, of your memory, all the time,
and that's good not bad. Free memory is wasted memory. You paid for it
all and shouldn't want to see any of it wasted.

Windows works hard to find a use for all the memory you have all the
time. For example if your apps don't need some of it, it will use that
part for caching, then give it back when your apps later need it. In
this way Windows keeps all (or almost all) of your memory working for
you all the time.