Re: if i have many windows or programs running, I cannot open anym

Mani wrote:

A very informative answer!Thx


You're welcome. Glad to help.

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"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

SteveL wrote:

hoe much memory (ram) does your system have? Computers (OS's) have
limitations as to how many programs it can open, if you have only
256mb of memory vs. 1024mb of ram, then the system can only use that
much memory.


No, this isn't true on modern computers running operating sytems
that use virtual memory. If you don't have enough RAM, the page file
is used instead. The page file is slower than RAM, so not having
enough RAM results in a performance hit, but it doesn't stop you
from running more applications (at least not until you reach the
maximum address space of 4GB)



I would invest in a tune up utility, I like tune-up
utility 2007, it has a memory optomizer which runs in the
background, when the system runs out of memory this utility will
engage and try to free up more memory.


Programs like this are snake oil. They make things worse, not
better. Doing anything to interfere with Windows's normal memory
management is counterproductive. My recommendation is that you stay
as far away from this and similar programs as possible.


Upgrade your memory (ram) put as much as you can in the unit...


That's very bad advice on two counts:

1. Although it's possible that more RAM may help him, it's by no
means clear that his problem is insufficient memory, and I tend to
doubt it.

2. Even if more RAM would help, it doesn't follow that he should
"put as much as you can in the unit." Contrary to the advice you
often hear, more RAM is *not* always better. Although more can't
hurt, there comes a point where it makes no improvement, and is
simply a waste of money. Where that point is, how much is needed for
good performance,is *not* a one-size-fits-all situation. You get
good performance if the amount of RAM you have keeps you from using
the page file, and that depends on what apps you run. Most people
running a typical range of business applications find that somewhere
around 256-384MB works well, others need 512MB. Almost anyone will
see poor performance with less than 256MB. Some people, particularly
those doing things like editing large photographic images, can see a
performance boost by adding even more than 512MB--sometimes much
more.

Adding more RAM might help and it might not. Adding more than he can
make effective use of certainly will not help. Adding RAM before
he's determined that it will help is likely to turn to be a complete
waste of money.

In general, the way to find out whether more RAM will help is by
determining what your page file usage is. If you are currently using
the page file significantly, more memory will decrease or eliminate
that usage, and improve your performance. If you are not using the
page file significantly, more memory will do nothing for you. Go to
http://billsway.com/notes%5Fpublic/winxp%5Ftweaks/ and download
WinXP-2K_Pagefile.zip and monitor your pagefile usage. That should
give you a good idea of whether more memory can help, and if so, how
much more.

However in his situation, he clearly has some other problem, and I
think running that program is premature. He should clear up what his
problem is first. I'm not sure what's causing his problem, but if I
were in his shoes, the first thing I would want to do is make sure
the computer was free of malware. So I recommend that he go to
Malke's Malware Removal site at
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware and
follow the instructions there.


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"kamardash@xxxxxxxxx" wrote:

I have windows XP Sp2


The problem i'm experiencing is that I reach a certain point where,
if i have many windows or programs running, I cannot open anymore.
As an example, this happened while I was typing this message and
had 7 firefox tabs open, ie open and a few explorer folders open.
I was trying to go into the control panel but couldn't right click
or open anything else once i got in and heard an error sound
repeating every second until i closed the control panel.
The longer I run windows, the less and less windows and programs
i'm able to keep open, to the point where I have to restart in
order to be able to open new programs. It's almost like some cache
is not being cleared and allowing me to start new programs.
As an example of a crash, I once reached the point where I could
not open anymore programs or windows within the programs I was
running. I started opening random programs, all which crashed
immediately after they started to open, and finally got a message
from one of them. It was microsoft outlook and it said 'out of
memory'
some times I see in event log enet ID 26: The application failed
to initialize properly (0xc0000142). This error related to all
applications after the windows hung.

I double check computer hardware and all looks fine, when teh
problem is happened I have more when 500MB free memory, CPU
working on 2-5% and hard disk have a lot of free space.
Also I run virus scan with couple of antivirus programs and didn't
find nothing.


Any ideas ?


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