re windows gripe in article ppmvf qnh bigboote wpi edu bigal wpi wpi edu nathan charles crowell writes hi there there s one thing about windows that really frosts me i have mb of ram installed in my system i use a mb mb under windows disk cache and a mb permanent swap file while i can never fill the memory up i still have problems sometimes because i run out of gdi resources what gives i think windows could manage these resources a little better does anyone have any input on how to conserve these resources so that i can avoid this problem nate nathan c crowell dept of mechanical engineering acrl worcester polytechnic institute e mail bigal wpi wpi edu costing the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars nathan win has a fixed limit of k gdi memory regardless of physical ram installed this is twice that of win but not nearly robust enough for many developers and power users using amish launch as your shell you can reduce gdi memory usage by as much as over progman ndw dashboard and other graphical type icon based and other shells also nesting and full hot key global support is offered something no other shells have at this time ted matsumura president amish software inc wq
