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by petebull 1 view

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I got over 700 MB. in my computer and I left it run all the time.When i going to do something on it again, it keep said that I didn't have enough memory to run the program.
How can I fix that?

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by jfjester

700 mb of ram or 700 mb of free space on your hard drive- it is wanting physical memory or virtual memory-
what operating system?
what speed processor?
more details would assist in solving the problem- computer specs . ect.

by petebull

I got over 700 MB of ram and my harddrive got more than 9 GB free.I used windows ME for OS.My computer is 750 Mhz Atlon.

by uellem

Does cold booting actually fix the problem? Try running the same program just after you startup the computer. If it runs ok, you may want to cold boot your machine more frequently than you already do. Me isn't like Windows 2000 that it can stay running for an extended period of time.

And yes, you may want to add some virtual memory.

by parbo

When you do get this message again you want to check your system resources by right clicking My Computer and selecting properties. next select the performance tab and it should list your free resources in percentage. when you system starts up also check this. You want somewhere around 90% to be free on startup. As your using and closing programs this % will decrease since W-ME doesnt does a very good job managing memory like W-NT or W2K. If its not around the 90% on startup you can remove unnecessary programs by looking at the sartup group (start-programs-startup) and remove some or start-run and type msconfig go to the startup tab and uncheck programs you dont want to start. make sure not to disable system programs and antivirus and such.
Hope this helps

by csmith

Hi Pete,
You are going to have to troubleshoot this.
There is a Windows bug in PCs that have more than 512 Meg memory.
The quick fix is to download MemMax from zdnet.com (It is shareware.)
(You can also temporarily reduce installed ram to 512Meg.)
You also are going to have to test for a "memory leak".
To test for this you have to disable the running programs one at a time to find the offender.
(You can disable Virtual Memory to shorten the amount of time to PC lockup.)
Regards, Chris

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