> When I zipped the system info files on the win98 and tried to
> copy them thru the network neighborhood to the xpmach,
> I got the same error message: "not enough memory available.
> Close some programs."
The Win9x systems will give this error when they run out of "System
Resources", even if there is plenty of RAM left to use. "System
Resources" are two 64KB heaps that are used for such things as window
structures, cursors, icons, menus, paintbrushes, etc. Programs are
supposed to use what they need and return what they use when they finish
with it. If a program is poorly coded, or if it crashes before it can
return "Resources" it's used, that "Resource" space is lost until the
machine is rebooted. The size of the heaps is absolutely fixed, and
cannot be changed. Adding RAM will have no effect, nor will anything
else.
Resource problems in Win9x are far more likely to restrict your ability
to many programs simultaneously than RAM problems or anything else.
WinXP does a *far* better job in this area, the problem simply doesn't
arise.
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Tim Slattery
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