I have a question about Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM):

Here's my problem: I am running Windows ME on a PIII 866 Mhz with 128 Mbs of RAM. I tried opening Word 2000 maybe a month ago, and it just wouldn't open... After waiting like 5 minutes, it finally told me I was "Out of memory". So I went into the system information to see how much physical memory I had available... When no program is running, it usually stays at 5 Mbs and can go up to 14 Mbs(???). Also, when I run an application, the available physical memory goes down to 300 Kbs and STAYS THERE! I don't think that is a normal process since I have 128 Mbs of RAM. I read some of the other posts, but I don't have the same problem... Any help would be greatly appreciated!!! -Matt

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It may be what is called "Memory Leak" The System does not release Ram back to the user when a application is done. The only real way to solve this, is after doing a job witch uses lots of Ram is to reboot This problem Microsoft is aware of but can't solve. I have 512MB of ram and still run out when doing photo editing. Since windows does not reconize Ram beyond 512MB My motto is reboot often.


On Sunday, July 7, 2002 at 5:52 pm, Mathieu wrote:
>I have a question about Dealing
>with Bad Memory (RAM):

>
>
>Here's my problem:
>I am running Windows ME on a PIII 866 Mhz with 128 Mbs of RAM.
>I tried opening Word 2000 maybe a month ago, and it just wouldn't open... After waiting
>like 5 minutes, it finally told me I was "Out of memory".
>So I went into the system information to see how much physical memory I had available...
>When no program is running, it usually stays at 5 Mbs and can go up to 14 Mbs(???).
>Also, when I run an application, the available physical memory goes down to 300 Kbs
>and STAYS THERE!
>I don't think that is a normal process since I have 128 Mbs of RAM. I read some of
>the other posts, but I don't have the same problem... Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
>
>-Matt

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Right-click on the icons in the tray area, open each, go through the options to turn 
off the "tray" or "run at startup" feature. 

For the others, go to Start>Run, type msconfig. Leave systray, scan registry, Load 
Power Profile, *StateMgr, your virus scanner and firewall if you have one. 

Go to Start>Run, type sysedit. Look over the autoexec.bat for unneccessary lines, 
click the win.ini and check for programs loading here: 
[windows] 
load= 
run= 

Open Explorer and navigate to c:\windows\temp and delete all files here. Empty the 
Recycle Bin. 

Open Internet Explorer, go to Tools>InternetOptions, click the Delete Files, choose 
to delete all Offline, content and Clear History buttons. Click the Settings button, 
then set a reasonable size for the temporary internet files cache. You can set it 
as low as 5-10mb, if you're on dial-up.

Close all tray applications and hit Alt_Ctl_Del and end task on all items except 
for explorer and systray, disable your screensaver, then run scandisk, then defrag. 
Reboot.

If you're using Microsoft Office, look up this Knowledge Base article to kill the 
Find Fast Indexer. 

How to Disable the Find Fast Indexer 

Msconfig....Things safe to remove from startup:
http://www2.whidbey.net/djdenham/Uncheck.htm


CJ

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I am using a similar computer. I upgraded to 256 megs of memory. After a fresh startup I only have 132 megs of available memory. I found that 128 megs was not enough memory on my computer!


On Sunday, July 7, 2002 at 5:52 pm, Mathieu wrote:
>I have a question about Dealing
>with Bad Memory (RAM):

>
>
>Here's my problem:
>I am running Windows ME on a PIII 866 Mhz with 128 Mbs of RAM.
>I tried opening Word 2000 maybe a month ago, and it just wouldn't open... After waiting
>like 5 minutes, it finally told me I was "Out of memory".
>So I went into the system information to see how much physical memory I had available...
>When no program is running, it usually stays at 5 Mbs and can go up to 14 Mbs(???).
>Also, when I run an application, the available physical memory goes down to 300 Kbs
>and STAYS THERE!
>I don't think that is a normal process since I have 128 Mbs of RAM. I read some of
>the other posts, but I don't have the same problem... Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
>
>-Matt

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128 Mb memory is enough.I run several applications and never go out of memory.Clear the startup programs as you were advised to see what happens.

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Hi Math:

I had the same problem, maybe you had too many opened windows that consume all yoour resources.... I downloaded a program called CyberLat RAM Cleaner 2.0 and really helped my computer, I'm student and it is freeware for me. the program can free your ram, kill applications, set your virtual cache which, I think, was the cure for my PC...

You can download it from http://www.ramcleaner.net

Good luck.

Erick

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Hello. I have read all the responses to your problem, and though I think they are all good suggestions, they haven't worked for me. I have Windows XP and it keeps telling me that I only have 17 mb left of RAM and then maybe going up to 39 after a fresh restart, but there is absolutely nothing running. It is very frustrating and I have done the msconfig and all that jazz. If you hear anything, please let me know! Gateway tech support couldn't do much else for me. Francie


On Sunday, July 7, 2002 at 5:52 pm, Mathieu wrote:
>I have a question about Dealing
>with Bad Memory (RAM):

>
>
>Here's my problem:
>I am running Windows ME on a PIII 866 Mhz with 128 Mbs of RAM.
>I tried opening Word 2000 maybe a month ago, and it just wouldn't open... After waiting
>like 5 minutes, it finally told me I was "Out of memory".
>So I went into the system information to see how much physical memory I had available...
>When no program is running, it usually stays at 5 Mbs and can go up to 14 Mbs(???).
>Also, when I run an application, the available physical memory goes down to 300 Kbs
>and STAYS THERE!
>I don't think that is a normal process since I have 128 Mbs of RAM. I read some of
>the other posts, but I don't have the same problem... Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
>
>-Matt

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I have a Pentium III PC with Windows ME running Word 2000. After having run Word 2000 for several years I suddenly could not start it. Message: System extremely low on resources. After searching the internet including this thread I found an answer that solved my problem: I had several copies of the Word master template normal.dot. After renaming all of them to normal*.old (*=a number) Word 2000 created a new normal.dot template and started with no problems. Put normal.dot into Google to read about this problem. A lot of advise.


On Tuesday, January 20, 2004 at 7:40 pm, Francie wrote:
>Hello. I have read all the responses to your problem, and though I think they are
>all good suggestions, they haven't worked for me. I have Windows XP and it keeps
>telling me that I only have 17 mb left of RAM and then maybe going up to 39 after
>a fresh restart, but there is absolutely nothing running. It is very frustrating
>and I have done the msconfig and all that jazz. If you hear anything, please let
>me know! Gateway tech support couldn't do much else for me.
>
>Francie
>
>

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