how to increase the maximum number of windows ?

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From: Russell (newspaper_at_paperdragon.ca)
Date: 08/04/04 

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 08:47:33 -0700

It seems to be effected by the amount of virtual memmory
you have allocated. I tried opening lots of 'paint'
windows. With 768MB of virtual mem, i got about 67
windows open. When I increased virtual mem to 2560MB i
got about 79 windows open.

>-----Original Message-----
>my XP desktop seems to limit the maximum number of top-
level windows to
>about 50 or so.
>
>when the limit is reach, the system refuses to open new
windows.
>
>because of the nature of my job, i need to keep about 100
windows opened
>(most of them minimized), to have rapid access to a
number of documents.
>
>is there a way to increase the maximum number of windows
with XP ?
>
>my XP system has 512K+ memory, 100GB hard disk, so memory
resources are not
>an issue. apparently there is a limit that is either hard-
coded in the XP
>kernel, shell or maybe something that can be tuned up
(from the registry).
>
>i have used google to search for an answer to that one,
and all i found were
>many people who had the same question, but no answer.
>
>
>.
>

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