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| 133947 | 2003-04-07 00:50:00 | I get the error message "There is not enough space on your PC. Make room on the hard disk by deleting some files" I am running WinXP Pro (standard) on a Celeron 467MHz with 184MB SDRAM. Hard Drive is 7.85GB with 6.69GB free. The printer which is shared off this machine is a LaserPrinter Brother HL-1440 with 2MB. The primary use of this computer/printer is POS which requires printing Invoices/Packing Slips and has nothing else installed other than the POS software, printer driver and XP's bloatware. The error is OS related as it'll come up either from the POS software or any other program like notepad, error message also comes up on this machine when other computers on the network print to this printer. It'll still print even with the error message showing but it'll create an error message per printed document so if I am going to print 10 documents I'd get 10 seperate error messages which requires me to click OK to confirm I've seen the message. How can I fix this? |
Kame (312) | ||
| 133948 | 2003-04-07 02:33:00 | Hi Kame, It is most likely caused by insufficient RAM. XP likes about 256Mb as a minimum. The reason it will be asking you to delete some files due to lack of disk space is most likely talking about the swap space on your hard drive rather than the actual free space available. The best solution would be to increase the RAM to at least 256Mb. Another alternative is to manually increase the amount of hard drive assigned to swap. This latter alternative can cause other problems if you're not careful. Easiest just to buy another stick of RAM :) |
Gorela (901) | ||
| 133949 | 2003-04-07 05:18:00 | Thanks Gorela I did think increasing the swap file might work but that doesn't explain the other computers on the network that are running at minimum 128MB on WinXP and Win2k and they have a lot more programs installed than this POS machine, they possibly do have a larger Hard Drive and bigger swap file though. Only difference is the CPU and unless CPU cache has something to do with it increasing RAM may not work. I'll increase the swap file for now and if the problem still occurs I may have to cope with the problem. I was thinking it was more of a spooling problem where the folder that pages are stored in for printing may have a limited size set to it. Does this sound familiar? I was hoping for an answer along this lines since I'm sure I've heard of it before. Or if there were updates related to this in an XP update, I just didn't want to install anything that will slow this computer down. Upgrading this computer in any means is out of the question since to me it's capable of doing what it's suppose too with it's minimal specifications. I really can't upgrade it unless it's a real problem other than that I have to get use to the error messages. |
Kame (312) | ||
| 133950 | 2003-04-07 05:39:00 | It could have something to do with the spool directory. Check it and clean out any older spooled files and check its properties to make sure it hasn't got a quota on it. With so much free hard disk space I wouldn't think it would have anything to do with a fragmented drive but it wouldn't do any harm to defragment. With a relatively full hard drive if there wasn't enough room for the spooled file in one block it would spit a dummy. If it needed a larger swap file I would have thought that the OS would have reported it and resized it. With so much free space I would give the Min and Max both a pretty large chunk. |
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