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by jogregory21

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When I try and open a document in Microsoft Word, i recieve a 'not enough memory' error message. There appears to be enough RAM to support this and there is plenty of disk space?? What should I change to correct this?

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by qballrail

Depending on what loads with Windows, you may have too many TSR's. To see what you are running on boot, from W9x,ME & XP go to start | Run then type msconfig in the command line. Next click the startup folder and see what's loading. Normally you will see a good number of programs which are non-essential, at least running all the time. Programs like Real tray and Norton System Doctor take up a good amount of memory, which only serves to launch mere miliseconds sooner than if they were not loaded on boot. Uncheck the non-essentials then restart your computer. Once you reboot, a box will appear telling you that this was for diagnostic purposes. Check the box so you won't get that notification again.

In W2K (and sometimes in the other versions) you can delete the shortcuts from the startup group.

Lots of programs put themselves into the startup, which is pretty annoying, if you ask me. This can really steal a lot of system resources.

Perhaps providing a little more information on your system would be helpful. Info such as OS, Proc speed, RAM, Hard drive size, etc. But I do hope this helps!

Good Luck!

Regards,
Jesse

by ann777

exit Word
deleted normal.dot
start Word and see if your document opens.

Normal.dot is the default template file and it could have gotten corrupted. If MS Word cannot find the file when you restart Word, it'll create a new one.

by vchd_it

When I have seen this problem it has been due to no enough memory. I have only seen this problem when trying to complete a mail merge creating a large file.

If the documents contains graphics or multiple fonts this increases the file size.

Check and see what other applications are running in the back ground.

by hereinoz

This is, strangely enough, rarely a "not enough memory" problem. What it is saying is that it is not able to address sufficient memory to complete the operation, for some reason.

Anna777 is probably spot on with the corruption theory. I have also seen this problem on a machine that was vastly infected by the Nimda worm.

You didn't tell us how much system memory you have. If it is 128Mb or over you shouldn't have trouble with Word, even running XP, it should still happen, albeit a bit sluggishly.

Also have you got sufficient space on the hard disk set aside as a swap file? If the swap file is set too small you can run into difficulties.

by lmayeda

If you can access the Task Manager, the performance tab will tell you how much of your memory is in use and the Processes tab will give you a clue as to the memory hog. Try closing the processes one at a time and watching the performance tab. Also, when was the last time you defragged your hard drive. You may have a ton of space but if they are in a million bits and pieces, your may not be able to swap programs in an out properly. I also like Anna777's answer.

by lowdn

Ever encountered this error, it might be due to a lot of temp files which still reside inside your temp folder. Try to clear away those temp files & see. Good Luck to you

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