Hello Lars,
Thursday, June 21, 2001, 6:37:29 PM, you wrote:
> Hi Markus,
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, at 17:20:45 +0200 you wrote:
MG>> There must be some application running that is really GDI hungry.
MG>> Anybody know how I can find the culprit?
> Under Windows 2000, you can use the 'Task Manager' for that. In the View
> menu you can choose which columns to show, and one possibility is to
> display the number of used GDI objects. But I have never worked with NT
> 4, so I don't know anything about the task manager there. But I guess it
> should be pretty similar.
The problem is that you never get this type of error on Win NT:)
It's typical for Win9x as they use old 16-bit GDI and User
modules:( with limited to 64 k amount of memory for all graphical
objects and Windows' internal data. It is not just GDI who causes
this type of messages. The module 'User' that manages windows,
borders, buttons etc. can easily ran out of memory as well.
Don't use big colorfull wallpapers, active desktop features and
background apps in system tray (at least get rid of those you
don't actually need) -- they all 'eat' memory in surprising
quantities:( Or migrate to NT-family OS (depending on the age of
your computer NT4 or w2k could be the choice).
The problem frequently is not just lack of GDI or User memory but
rather applications that do not release resources correctly.
There are various utilities for memory allocation control just
look up in the Net. They can improve Windows' resource management
at least to some extent.
--
Best regards,
Serge Skorokhodov mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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