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I am a Realtor and the person that fixed our office computers built this one
for me and he is at my old office and I am now sixty miles away so I do think
you for all your help
b Teri
"R. C. White" wrote:
> Hi, Teri.
>
> Good. You have Windows 2000, with SP4 installed. I believe that's the
> latest available SP for Win2K. Don't worry about all the recent news about
> SP2; that's for Windows XP, not for Windows 2000. And, since SPs are
> cumulative, everything that was previously included in the long-ago SP2 for
> Win2K is now included in SP4, which you have installed.
>
> For very good technical reasons, computer numbers are usually expressed in
> binary, or powers of two. 2^10 = 1024, and this number is used often in
> computer literature and language. Since it is close to 1,000, computer
> programmers long ago started calling this a Kilobyte, or KB, using the
> ancient word for 1,000, combined with the term "byte" for a computer "word"
> of 8 bits (BInary DIgits). Four bits is a nibble and 8 bits is a whole
> bite, spelled byte to show that it is being used in its technical sense.
> When computer capacities started getting bigger, the terms Megabyte (MB) and
> then Gigabyte (GB) became common, meaning 1024^2 and 1024^3. Soon we'll
> start throwing around the terms Terabyte and Petabyte as bigger hard drives
> keep getting bigger.
>
> But, for now...
> 261,616 / 1024 = 255.484375, or just under 256 MB.
> 261,616 * 1024 = 267,894,784 bytes
>
> or, to say it another way, 256 MB =
> 256 * 1024 * 1024 = 268,435,456 bytes, and
> 268,435,456 - 267,894,784 = 540,672 bytes, and
> 540,672 / 1024 = 528 KB
>
> So, your computer probably has a total of 256 MB, but 528 KB of that is not
> available to the operating system because it is being used by something
> else, probably your graphics card.
>
> If you mention the make and model of your computer, someone here may be able
> to confirm my guesses.
>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> rc@corridor.net
> Microsoft Windows MVP
>
> "Teri skuczas" <Teriskuczas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:FBE38B57-EA75-4900-B58A-5F0764588150@microsoft.com...
> > it says I have microsoft windows 2000
> > 5.00.2195
> > service 4 pack
> >
> > 261,616 KB ram (what is this in MB)?
> >
> >
> > "R. C. White" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, again, Teri.
> >>
> >> Windows Update tells me there are no updates, too. That's good! It
> >> means
> >> I'm up to date. ;<)
> >>
> >> Do you think you are NOT up to date? As I said in another thread you
> >> started in this newsgroup, just press Win+Break to have the System
> >> Properties page pop up in your face. (Or click Start | Control Panel |
> >> System.) There it will tell you what version of Windows you are running,
> >> plus other information, such as how much RAM you have.
> >>
> >> RC
> >>
> >> "Teri skuczas" <Teriskuczas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:F884B8F8-7DCC-4E3B-B32E-55AE03E29E73@microsoft.com...
> >> >I try to do the window up date and it tells me there are no up dates
> >> >this
> >> >has
> >> > been going on every time I try am I doing something wrong
> >> > --
> >> > Teri
>
>
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