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Free Memory
Hi all,
I am helping my mother with her PC. Everything was fine until a few weeks ago. She received an error message while initiating Outlook Express. It would just hang and when she would exit from the program, she would get an error message stating there is not enough free memory to run this program. She currently has 128 megs and really only uses the PC for email and web surfing. It is a Celeron and is running on Win ME 4.90.3000. If she does not open OE, the memory message does not appear. I have removed OE and reinstalled it but still no luck. It does not even retrieve her email. I have used a virus scan and also scanned it for spyware/scumware. It appears to be clean. Any suggestions? It all began with OE not connecting. Many thanks, Faith |
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Or use Outlook Express.
-- Walterius wrote in message ups.com... Hi, i recommend to try RamCleaner - http://www.benutec.com/products/ramcleaner/ |
Noel,
I actually removed OE and then reinstalled it. Are you still suggesting it might be a corrupt dbx file? Thanks, Faith "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... This type of problem is often caused by a corrupted Inbox.dbx file - do a search for such a file, and rename it to Inbox.dbx.old - then restart OE. It should create a new Inbox...... If that works, then try DBXtract from http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx to recover the 'lost emails in the Inbox - and then teach your mother to move stuff out of the Inbox as soon as it comes in - preferably using Message rules. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Faith Risa" wrote in message ... Hi all, I am helping my mother with her PC. Everything was fine until a few weeks ago. She received an error message while initiating Outlook Express. It would just hang and when she would exit from the program, she would get an error message stating there is not enough free memory to run this program. She currently has 128 megs and really only uses the PC for email and web surfing. It is a Celeron and is running on Win ME 4.90.3000. If she does not open OE, the memory message does not appear. I have removed OE and reinstalled it but still no luck. It does not even retrieve her email. I have used a virus scan and also scanned it for spyware/scumware. It appears to be clean. Any suggestions? It all began with OE not connecting. Many thanks, Faith |
I don't get your response.....she is using Outlook Express.
"Walterius" wrote in message ... Or use Outlook Express. -- Walterius wrote in message ups.com... Hi, i recommend to try RamCleaner - http://www.benutec.com/products/ramcleaner/ |
If I could stop laughing long enough to post a worthy
response................... Another good phrase. Kudos, Noel. KB ps Does Norton fall into this category? "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... Ottherwise known as 'how to screw your PC in thirty seconds'!! -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's wrote in message ups.com... Hi, i recommend to try RamCleaner - http://www.benutec.com/products/ramcleaner/ |
It takes 200 to 300 MB of RAM to boot my parents' Dell computer. You need more
RAM! Like 512 MB! After getting that taken care of... you can get Low Resources error messages that have to do with the outdated Operating System. I saw a Compaq machine at Wal-Mart for $429 today; it comes with a 17" monitor too. |
That's purest BS - Win ME will work happily with 64B (slowly - but
happily!), and very nicely with 128MB. How many fonts are installed on the system? - look in C:\Windows\Fonts - if it's more than around 500 then you need to get rid of a few. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Cymbal Man Freq." Don't g wrote in message ... It takes 200 to 300 MB of RAM to boot my parents' Dell computer. You need more RAM! Like 512 MB! After getting that taken care of... you can get Low Resources error messages that have to do with the outdated Operating System. I saw a Compaq machine at Wal-Mart for $429 today; it comes with a 17" monitor too. |
"Noel Paton" wrote in message ... | That's purest BS - Win ME will work happily with 64B (slowly - but | happily!), and very nicely with 128MB. | | How many fonts are installed on the system? - look in C:\Windows\Fonts - if | it's more than around 500 then you need to get rid of a few. | | | | -- | Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Just looking at my Off Topic Windows 98SE machine here, which also takes more than 200 MB of RAM to boot up: the Fonts folder has 252 files in one folder and is exactly 100 MB big! I wouldn't dare get rid of fonts unless I had prime information on how to do it. |
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