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by jeff.cummings

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A number of our Windows 95 users get this message intermittently and it brings their PC's to a halt. This can even occur without any main apps being open. I have a suspicion that Microsoft SMS v2.0 is the culprit and was wondering if any other people had experience of this or know of ways to stop this from happening? Any help or advice would be appreciated.

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by ferocious

this is similar to a memory leak that Word exhibits if the service pack is not installed. see if there is an update to the suspected program. also, if they use word, look in the startup folder to see if there isn't an executable called findfast. if so, delete it from the folder - it's a memory hog, too.

by shacup

Duing our time of using Win95/98, we also encountered this problem. I assume you have installed ALL the patches provided by MSoft ?

Can you increase the Virtual Mem Swap file ?

Have you cleared out any unnecessary apps in the Run section of the registry.

I always found that if you can start win95/98 and have at least 75% free, it greatly improved it's operation.

Good luck, hope this helps you.

by mogliak

Check your memory after a fresh boot. If it's low after restarting (70% + -) then see whats coming up in startup, systray, etc.

Also check your HD space.
On one of the PC's add extra RAM, if the problem goes away upgrade the others.

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