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Building a report in Accounting Software,
80% complete, get message ' New
Handle got Zero Handle from global
Allocation. Danger Memory Low'. Report
is about 3 MB. I have 128MB ram, using
default pagefile size on Win2000. File
accessed is on a WinNT server. What
does this message mean? Thanks.

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by ryder007

The problem may be that there are too many programs running in your sys tray and one of them may be very memory intensive. Try closing all of the programs in your sys tray and try copying again.

Dean

by william jay

The most misunderstood error messages in windows history come from "out of memory" type gibberish when one knows they have enough RAM and swap file space. What is also memory to the OS is %TEMP% and %TMP%, which is disk space like a swap file. If a directory has too many files, then the system may be unable to continue a given process. Check that the accounting app has a temp space and that the machine(s) involved have adequate and operational temp space too ...

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