Re: XP application limit?

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From: Shenan Stanley (news_helper_at_hushmail.com)
Date: 12/06/04 

Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 13:19:48 -0600

Pilot wrote:
> With XP, I reach an upper limit on the number of applications I can
> have open at any given time. Requests to launch new applications
> silently fail. Is this a resource problem? Is there a way that I
> can increase the resources on XP machines? I am using a dual
> stepping 3Ghz machine with 2GB RAM. I can make it so that even the
> Task Manager won't open until I close some windows. I can reproduce
> this on a few XP machines. I did not notice this problem when I was
> using 2000 or 2003 before.

What ridiculous number of apps are you at when you reach this limit? 

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