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Old August 24th 05, 10:31 AM
Faith Risa
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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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Old August 24th 05, 11:03 AM
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Hi, i recommend to try RamCleaner -
http://www.benutec.com/products/ramcleaner/

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Old August 24th 05, 01:47 PM
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Or use Outlook Express.

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Old August 25th 05, 12:14 AM
Faith Risa
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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
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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.

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"Faith Risa" wrote in message
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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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Old August 25th 05, 12:15 AM
Faith Risa
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I don't get your response.....she is using Outlook Express.

"Walterius" wrote in message
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Or use Outlook Express.

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Hi, i recommend to try RamCleaner -
http://www.benutec.com/products/ramcleaner/





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Old August 25th 05, 01:57 AM
KB
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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
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Ottherwise known as 'how to screw your PC in thirty seconds'!!

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Hi, i recommend to try RamCleaner -
http://www.benutec.com/products/ramcleaner/





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Old August 25th 05, 03:28 AM
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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.


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Old August 25th 05, 06:30 AM
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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.



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"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.




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Old August 25th 05, 06:58 PM
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"Noel Paton" wrote in message
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| 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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