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Select "RAM Charger Application Settings..." from the
Pull-Down Menu While the control panel is open, or use
"File/Select Other..." within "RAM Charger Application
Settings".
This can only be done if the "Control Panel" is actually
an "Application", which appears in the "About" window and in
the pull-down "application" menu at the very right side of
your menu-bar, when the Control Panel is open. Simple
"Control Panels" do not have a starting size - their memory
usage is provided from within the
Finder's
own space.
Unfortunately, increasing the starting size for an
application stored in a control panel, such as AppleTalk or
More About This Mac (MATM), is somewhat difficult because
the settings are not available in the Get Info window. For
the same reason that the Finder does not display memory
information in the Get Info window, applications conatined
in "control panel" files are also not automatically listed
in the RAM Charger Settings window (they are not of type
application, and not all contain applications, and thus it
takes too long to find them on your disk).
The simplest way to access the settings for these
applications, like their starting size, is to pick "RAM
Charger Application Settings" from the RAM Charger Pull-Down
menu in your menu bar while the application is the currently
active application. Since the Pull-Down menu is context
sensitive, RAM Charger Settings will open up with the
application automatically selected. Alternatively, you can
use the "File/Select other" menu item in RAM Charger
settings, and locate the application in your control panels
folder.
Why are some applications contained in "Control Panel"
Files?
The traditional "Control Panel" specification has
inherent tecnnical limitations which make it difficult to
provide substantial functionality. However, keeping certain
software in the Control Panels folder has obvious
organizational advantages for users. Since it has always
been possible to package any combination of Control Panel,
System Extension, and Application code in one file, this
technique is now used by many vendors to provide more
function while using the "logical" storage of a control
panel. This technique is used by Apple in their AppleTalk
control panel, and has been used by many other vendors as
well. In specific, MATM is a control panel which also
contains a "system extension" to modify the Finder "Apple
Menu/About This Mac" menu item, and an Application which can
provide the full functionality of More About This Mac.
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