I'd like to know how big it. I only have 128mb of RAM on my comp. so as you can see I dont have much space to work with. So, yea, like i've already asked, i'd like to know the size of it in mb, kb, whatever you want. Thanks.

UR CRAZY what idiot down.loads music o whatever with only 128MB of Ram lke seriously your computer will go slower than ever seriously with only like appx. 20 songs i have like 300 and my computer is fine thats probably because i have 2 cards of 256MB of Ram lmao anywayz just wanted to say ethier get a new card or a new computer

I dont think theirs any need to call me an idiot, and everyone's response is "get a new computer." Well, computers arent really cheap, you know? And, theirs no way that im gonig to buy a computer just to download LimeWire.

But, anyway, thanks alot Only A Hobo.

Well, I guess what I will do is use my brothers computer to download and transfer songs to my MP3 player.

edit; And may I ask, 1gb of free space of what? Because, 1gb of RAM, or extra spce is an aweful lot, not even many people have that much RAM on their computers. Thanks.

Crazynyfan

First of all, I would stongly suggest that ignore anything and everything that Eman1992 writes or says. It is unfortunate but he has installed himself as the troll (creep) of this forum and he is purely here to seek attention, nothing more.

As for Hobo's advice, he is largely correct you will need a PC with the following specs.

512MB Ram
at least 1GB of free space on your HD (you can use between 100Mb to 500MB but any less is not recommended)
possibly an extra internal or external HD to store your downloaded and shared files (anything from 50GB upwards).

And, to be safe, anti-virus, firewall, anti-spyware and other such protective software.

Please note, if your PC is not up to spec you can upgrade as and when your finances dictates.



UK Bob

What operating system are you using. I drought it is XP with only 128MB of ram probably 98 in which case you will be able to run LW but there is a good possibility you computer will freeze up due to lack of ram. You don't have to get a new computer just add a little ram another 128MB should do the job 256MB would be better and it is cheap.

The 1.5GB Hobo is referring to is hard drive space you will need to download files to. If you have less than that there is a chance that you will get a disk error due to lack of space.

Any way Eman1992 doesn't know his head from a hole in the ground you can download with a 128MB it just depends on you OS and how many programs you have running in the background. So in fact he is the Idiot

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Hi Grandpa

Thanks for mentioning that LW can work in 128MB ram, I should have said that myself.

And just to say to crazynyfan that the views expressed by Hobo, you and myself are basically the same, just that we are approaching the solution from slightly different view points.

Anyway, Grandpa, Hobo & crazynyfan

Have a happy and prosperous new year.



UK Bob

Windows also uses virtual memory if you are short on ram below is a explination of it. The size of the virtual memory can be changed if needed although I only know how to do it in XP. And no I didn't right this it is out of Tweak Guide

Virtual Memory

Back in the 'good old days' of command prompts and 1.2MB floppy disks, programs needed very little RAM to run because the main (and almost universal) operating system was Microsoft DOS and its memory footprint was small. That was truly fortunate because RAM at that time was horrendously expensive. Although it may seem ludicrous, 4MB of RAM was considered then to be an incredible amount of memory.

However when Windows became more and more popular, 4MB was just not enough. Due to its GUI (Graphical User Interface), it had a larger memory footprint than DOS. Thus, more RAM was needed.

Unfortunately, RAM prices did not decrease as fast as RAM requirement had increased. This meant that Windows users had to either fork out a fortune for more RAM or run only simple programs. Neither were attractive options. An alternative method was needed to alleviate this problem.

The solution they came up with was to use some space on the hard disk as extra RAM. Although the hard disk is much slower than RAM, it is also much cheaper and users always have a lot more hard disk space than RAM. So, Windows was designed to create this pseudo-RAM or in Microsoft's terms - Virtual Memory, to make up for the shortfall in RAM when running memory-intensive programs.

How Does It Work?

Virtual memory is created using a special file called a swapfile or paging file.

Whenever the operating system has enough memory, it doesn't usually use virtual memory. But if it runs out of memory, the operating system will page out the least recently used data in the memory to the swapfile in the hard disk. This frees up some memory for your applications. The operating system will continuously do this as more and more data is loaded into the RAM.

However, when any data stored in the swapfile is needed, it is swapped with the least recently used data in the memory. This allows the swapfile to behave like RAM although programs cannot run directly off it. You will also note that because the operating system cannot directly run programs off the swapfile, some programs may not run even with a large swapfile if you have too little RAM.

Happy new year to all

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