>Tamas,
>
>Your problem is two fold. The first is to tell Windows not to use so much memory 
>for it's cache. You can do this by going to Start then Run and typing in MSCONFIG.
>After clicking OK, click on the Advanced button. Go to and check Limit Memory to 
>and enter 512. (this will render the 256meg over 512 not used).
>
>It sucks but this is a known issue with Windows. It simply was never developed to 
>handle this much memory because none of us could afford it or our motherboards were 
>not able to have as much. Now that prices have dropped, we are all going out to 
buy 
>more memory only to find out that our operating system can't handle it!
>
>Symantec is finally admitting that their utilities program can't handle more than 
>256meg! They offer a 'workaround' but it still does not work on systems with more 
>that 256meg.
>
>They (Symantec) have not announced a fix. Nor do they seem concerned at all that 
>their product is flawed. I suppose they, like Microsoft, never anticipated RAM prices 
>dropping to the point where all of us 'common folk' would have this much memory 
in 
>our computers.
>
>What is really wrong about this and ticks me off the most is that both Microsoft 
>and Symantec have known about this limitation for months, perhaps years! It obviously 
>was never a 'high priority' concern to them because the majority of their customer 
>base didn't have this much RAM installed. So nobody complained about it.
>
>We should all write to them now to let them know how displeased we are about this.
>
>One final but drastic thing you could try is to pull a stick of memory out of your 
>computer and actually run with less.(Maybe get your money back?). 
>
>Again, this sucks, but I don't see either company addressing this as an 'issue'. 
>I wouldn't look for a software fix for quite some time (if at all!).
>
>I hope this helps. 
>I suggest you try Microsoft and Symantec web sites to get further information. 
>
>Good luck,
>Chaz
>
>
>



>On Friday, August 17, 2001 at 5:41 pm, Tamas Frecska wrote:
>>I have a question about Dealing 
>>with Bad Memory (RAM):

>>Is the following a memory problem or not? I upgraded my computer (motherboard,CPU 
>>and Ram)to 768Mb Ram. Everything works fine but certain programs (always the same 
>>programs), give me a message "not enough memory to run this program." Some program 
>>disks, e.g. a Comcast upgrade, I can't even look at with Windows Explorer because 
>>of this message. Unrelated but, occasionally Norton 2001 chimes in with a message 
>>of "dangerously low memory."  What gives? I'd appreciate any and all comments
>>Tamas
>>
>

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