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| 73878 | 2002-08-25 23:42:00 | I am sending this request on behalf of a friend who is "in the poo". He wonders why he has lost several programmes and/or why he cannot open his 'find' window which when tried goes opaque. If he tries to 'start, run' enters MSCONFIG.EXE window comes up saying "Insufficient memory to run this programme". He has a Windows 98SE, 192 mb ram and 500 Mhz CPU. He did a defrag last Friday - no virus found on virus search and appears no intrusion by hacker. Can anyone help please? |
Smithie 38 (1008) | ||
| 73879 | 2002-08-26 00:27:00 | Try doing a scanreg/restore in DOS and take him back to Friday when all was Okay. | Revliskci (1629) | ||
| 73880 | 2002-08-26 00:57:00 | How long ago was the computer reformatted, and how much free space does he have. it may be time to remove some programs to free up disk space, or the more drastic option is to reformat the entire computer and start from scratch. :) |
NathanTheKind (472) | ||
| 73881 | 2002-08-26 01:27:00 | Hi folks. Thanks for the 2 replies so far. I have relayed the messages on and he has asked me to respond as follows: 1. His computer has never been reformatted. 2. He has 6.56 Gb out of 8 Gb available. 3. He keeps getting a warning right across the screen "You are dangerously low in memory". 4. He did a scanreg and went back to 23 August. It restored the work icons to where they were but there is still no MSN icons etc. He really appreciates your advice so far. |
Smithie 38 (1008) | ||
| 73882 | 2002-08-26 01:54:00 | You might wanna try running: MSCONFIG in the windows - run box Otherwise, www.superrsoft.com, get Super Rabbit Magic Set and check out autorun. If there's too much stuff loading at start, that'll possible have something to do with it. Is your friend running anything such as windowsblinds?? Chilling_Silence |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 73883 | 2002-08-26 02:30:00 | If this doesn't work then reformat You may need to adjust the virtual memory, of the pc. to do this right click My computer click on properties, click on performance and then virtual storage (i think) then maunual adjust it and make it a decent size. If that doesn't work, then reformat cheers:) |
NathanTheKind (472) | ||
| 73884 | 2002-08-26 02:48:00 | A reformat is a major operation which may be a bit severe. A "reinstall" would be a much better first step. This will restore missing elements of the OS, and keep any settings. It will be necessary to reinstall any OS patches ... |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 73885 | 2002-08-26 03:03:00 | You can also try this little program that I found in tweak'es Sunday News post. Its a system cleaner and also has a startup control utility to enable you to control startup without running msconfig.privacy inspector (http://www.privacyinspector.com/) It does sound like the system is trying to load too much at once or it could be the work of a virus, was the virus scan done from the computer or from a remote scan i.e. from Nortons site? some viruses now kill the onboard virus scanner. You can also try a program called mpower (http://www.mindbeat.com/) which is a on demand memory free up program. Unlike most of these programs this frees up the memory only when you double click on the icon so does not take up huge amounts of the memory it is trying to free up just by being there. In the options you can also set it to display the available ram in whichever window is open and I found this great for tracking down which app was chewing my memory. It also sounds like a good cleanout might help possibly with regclean to have a cleanup in the registry too. You can grab that from here... regclean (www.pcworld.com) |
dipstick01 (445) | ||
| 73886 | 2002-08-26 03:09:00 | Thanks for the responses. He is now acting on these accordingly. He has asked me to tell you that he has 51% of RAM available. Why then does his computer tell him that he is running out of memory? Any ideas on this please. |
Smithie 38 (1008) | ||
| 73887 | 2002-08-26 03:27:00 | Its not that simple Loading DoubleSpace drivers [which may load by default even if you have not compressed your hard drive] often does not leave sufficient conventional memory below 1 Mb. Also corrupt programs can cause it. |
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