Re: Why I am Limited to about 35 Open Windows With 3GB Ram in New PC?

John, you might be running out of GDI Handles.

AFAIK in Xp it's set by default to 10,000 per process. (I've checked mine
and it's set to 10,000, though I don't remember if I modified that or not)
You can fire up permon, object 'process' | counter 'handle count' | process
'iexplore' and watch it rise... check the number after wich you can't open
tabs anymore.
Also, system wide the number of hadles per session is limited to about 65k
(theoretical limit I think).
Total system wide number of handles is also displayed in Task Manager.


"John_061211" <John061211@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:6345D3EF-09B8-41C3-A1F7-5A5A217C71E5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have a 6 month old Dell dual-processor Windows XP desktop PC that is very
fast. I have Windows XP Media Edition with Service Pack 2. I noticed I
was
limited to about 35 open windows (for example 35 IE7 windows - not using
the
tab option in IE7) before apparently running out of memory when I had just
1GB of memory in the machine. I am working on many things at once and
would
like to be able to open at least 50 windows on the machine.

I just added 2GB of memory (3GB total now) and although the computer
recognizes the extra memory, I can not open any additional windows. Is
there
some limitation in Windows XP on the maximum number of windows or
applications you can have open, or is there perhaps something wrong with
the
memory that I installed? I call the memory manufacturer, and they said
they
memory should be fine and that it is the correct memory for my machine. I
called Dell technical support and they don't have any clues. All inputs I
received suggest going from 1GB Ram to 3GB Ram should allow me to have a
lot
more windows open than I had before.

I suspect there is either a limitation in Windows XP or some setting that
I
need to change to allow it to make use of the additional memory that I
have.
Otherwise it must be bad memory, or something wrong with other hardware
components.

Thanks in advance for any help or comments on this problem.

--
John


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