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by blackcurrant Jun 23, 2002 last reply Jun 30, 2002

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We are currently experiencing out of resources messages on several of our machines.

The messages first began to appear after installing Wingate. The messages only appear on the client machines, which also run Win98. All of the affected machines have a minimal set of programs loading at atartup - systray, explorer, and one of these also runs Norton Antivirus 2002. Each machine, except the one running NAV, are shutdown at the end of each day, and none run any heavy apps - they are used mainly for wordprocessing.

Can anyone help me resolve this?

Thanks

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by bfilmfan Jun 23, 2002

In order to answer your question, more information is needed. How much RAM is on the systems? What are the swap file settings? What word processing software package?

The general rule of thumb is that if you see out of system resources, you don't have either enough RAM or a large enough swap file.

by blackcurrant Jun 30, 2002

Hi, thanks for answering. Two of the computers have 64MB RAM, one has 32, All the machines have their pagefiles on drives with GB's of free space.

by madmark Jun 24, 2002

What type of processors are in these boxes? What is the word processor? How much RAM? What is the Hard Disk size? How much free space? Have these systems been defragmented recently?

I have seen these types of errors under Win9x and W2K usingOffice 95 or 97 when there were indeed low resources because the user had either not enough RAM, specified a small swapfile, used partition magic to shrink C: and expand D:, or not defragged in ages. Also, Win9x has some serious memory leak problems. Apps don't always release memory after they are closed.

Kill the office startbar. It's a memory hog. It will load office apps into RAM and not unload them so that MS-Apps appear to load faster.

Make certain that you have the latest Service Packs and updates for your operating system and aplications and run some diagnostics on the RAM and Hard Disk to gauge their performance.

Since the last thing that you say was installed was WinGate, uninstall the app and see if the behaviour continues. If not, re-install it and test. It may be something with the configuration of WinGate. If you're getting an error message like "RPCSS.exe/System Resources Low" check out
http://www.deerfield.com/support/WinGate/kb/index.htm?a=1372