Re: Need help increasing resources

Thanks for the info. I will try process explorer and try to understand what
is happening. My biggest problem is not knowing what limitations there may
be, how close I am to reaching those limitations and how to change those
limitations. If I know what limitations there may be, perhaps I could find
a scripting way to log this info and perhaps pop up a message box before the
limits are reached.

I've closed a few windows. Only about 39 open now. The performance tab
of Windows Task Manager shows
Totals:
Handles 19235
Threads 770
Processes 46
Physical Memory (K)
Total 1048048
Available 440636
System Cache 534520
Commit Charge (K)
Total 979408
Limit 2523732
Peak 1338536
Kernel Memory (K)
Total 219584
Paged 71124
NonPaged 148468

-Paul Randall

"R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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There are physical limitations within Windows that you may be running
up against. I know that especially web browsers have limitations on the
number of instances ( not TABS ) open at the same time. You're likely
getting close to limits on File Handles and Virtual Addressing Space.
It's not really so much a CPU/Memory capability/capacity as it is with
the Operating System itself.

I can't offer any specific advice other than you may want to look into
trimming back Windows services that your hardware/software may not
require. A 1.7 Ghz Celeron isn't bad, but has limitations with it's
onboard
L2 Cache memory size. You would probably benefit from a Dual-Core
CPU which can share/distribute the processing load.

Process Explorer from SysInternals is a good tool to analyze the load
on a PC.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/ProcessExplorer.mspx

Startup and Watchdog applets are another area where the machine
may be using more resources than are necessary.


"Paul Randall" <paulr901@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,
Due to the early onset of Alzheimer's disease or whatever, I find it very
helpful to have many windows open (my substitute for poor short term
memory). I seldom shut my computer down and after a period of a few
weeks I typically have a total of around 45 windows open. Its a mix,
like 20 to 30 windows explorer, a few HTAs, 10 or more internet explorer,
a couple Firefox, some notepads, hex editor, script editors, etc.
Anyhow, at some point the system becomes unstable and new windows won't
open. Or, if I close some windows, then I can open new ones, but within
a couple of weeks the system will typically crash when I try to open
something.

I've got a 1.7GHz Celeron with 1GB Ram (none shared with video) with WXP
SP2 but few or no updates.

I'm hoping someone will share info on how to view the resources that may
be in short supply and how to increase them, so that I can make changes,
see that the system is using those changes, and then test that I can open
more windows without problems.





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