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There is no real number limit more a case of inter-related factors that all combine to get to a point where the crash occurs. My system can open them all and still have room to work with.

Factors can include:

The version of Windows you are using and how up to date you are on patches and fixes,

The version of the Office programs your using are, and are they up to date on patches and fixes,

The amount of resources you have available after booting and systray items open,

The amount of available diskspace for the swapping files and data storage,

The amount of memory and the processor speed,

If the processes are waiting in the background or are performing calulations, updates etc

How well the programs release resources once they have been opened, which this dont do a very good job of.

And finally how well your maintenance of the disk space, scandisk and defrag have been applied.

The best advice is to not open any more programs than you need to do the job with and if your really a multi tasking user be on a platform Windows NT Windows 2000 with appropriate application upgrades that are better suited to all those things being open and working at once.

HTH

There is no one specific number that you can pin to this. It all depends on several factors like how much memory is being used on initial startup, what programs are running and how much memory they are using. If you start your system dont open anything else right click my computer and look on the performance tab. The higher the % of available resources the better. now if you start opening programs that uses memory. when you load files in the programs that uses memory and it depends on the sizeof the file how much it will use. From what i know from experience if you're above slighty above 50% available resources you should be ok. Now also remember that windows doesnt release all lthe memory once you close a program so depending on what you were doing earlier you might not be able to open as many apps as before or maybe even more. Just keep an eye out on the resources.

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