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The tray icon is upside down. Why?

April 26, 2017Icon tray upside

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The tray icon is upside down. Why?

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This appears to be a Windows bug that affects a small number of users who have version 1.3 or earlier. The bug is fixed in version 1.4 and up. (Note to developers: The bug was caused by the use of a top-down bitmap. Changing the code to use a bottom-up bitmap fixed the problem.) On NT, the tray icon numbers are gray instead of white. Why? This appears to be an NT bug handling the highly compressed bitmaps that RAMpage uses. With version 1.3 or earlier, NT always displays white as gray. With version 1.4 the display is correct if you have selected more than 256 colors in the Windows display properties box. I think I finally have the problem licked in version 1.5. Since I installed RAMpage I’m getting “extremely low resources” messages. Why? RAMpage frees memory by acquiring it and then releasing it. When it grabs memory, Windows may pop up a “low resources” message. This is usually the result of having an insufficiently large swap file. Frankly, if you don’t currently have memory problem