Most non-invasive way to reduce the number of slots filled ram check [slow internet connection] [ram slots]
Q: I try to tell a friend from what kind of school and how much RAM to get for her laptop. We go back to school next week so I can install it for her, but for now, I need to find out how many of her laptop RAM slots filled.
I do not think they are comfortable opening the laptop are. She is a very slow Internet connection, so I was looking for a small program to download. Crucial web site has a 170KB program running in a browser and tells you what to get, but I was looking for something simpler than that.
Any ideas?
Re:I'm guessing her boot-up screens are hidden? The "second page" shows which slots are populated. Pressing Pause/Break will freeze it if it displays too quickly.
I doubt they're visible on a laptop though.
Re:Yeah, 170kb is small… even the modem they used in Hackers could download that!
Re:HWInfo32 (http://www.hwinfo.com/) is a nice little program that I like to help tell me hardware info in a system, and it does tell how many slots are used for ram(and size), but it's about 1.8 meg, so it's well over your file size limitation.
Still, it coves the whole system and gets regular updates. 
Re:Wow, how slow could her internet connection be? Even on a 14.4, she can get that in a min.
Re:170KB is the smallest I've seen…by far.
Re:anything smaller than those? i'm ideally looking for something smaller than 170KB (thats how big crucial's is). maybe some little few KB app someone wrote for this taht someone's stumbled upon? ive searched around for something like that but its hard to phrase in a search what it is. thanks
Re:Crucial's tool works great. You could also use CPU-Z or SiSoft Sandra.
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