available memory after an ram upgrade

[glo]

We recently updated a PC with 128 mb of ram to 256mb.  In the system information message it shows that we now have 256 mb of ram but under available resource it still says 67% free.  We expected to see a larger number since we have more ram.  The only way we saw more available memory was to remove some of the programs that start up with the computer.

How does this work? How can we know if there is more memory available for programs?

Thanks
Glo

[pcdoc4christ]

Your operating system?

[Raptor]

67% of 265MB RAM.

Not 67% of 128MB RAM anymore.

Windows decides how it uses memory, not you.

[pcdoc4christ]

Your operating system is?

[glo]

Sorry,

I should have statd that the system is windows 98.  We simply added a 128 sim to the system.

Glo

[Computer_Commando]

What are system resources, and why do I run out of them?

[glo]

Thanks for all of your help.  I am formerly a Unix programmer in the corporate environment so looking into my own PC hardware problems or Operating problems is new to me but very interesting.

Should adding more ram to a Win 98 system improve the performance of  MS word 2000?  As you can see my friend's computer is several years behind the times but he is only doing word processing.

Thanks,
Glo

[Computer_Commando]

...Should adding more ram to a Win 98 system improve the performance of  MS word 2000...

More than 256MB on Win98?  No.  Upgrading to Win2k-Pro will make the most noticeable difference in speed.

[GX1_Man]

That should be enough to have a very usable system with a PII-400 and up. Memory resources ARE dictated (mostly) by Windows, but does the sytem work OK? Even if you have a Pentium 5 10 Gigahertz machine you can only type so fast, right?

[vibhor_agarwalin]

What happens is windows keeps as much files as possible into the RAM for a greater performance.

This is a % which i am not sure of.
So when you added more RAM, your system would have become faster.