Insufficient Memory

**pdcart** · 2001-09-30 14:18

Sparky, Leif, and Eileen helped with a hardware qestion, now this. Again, a new Win2000 pc, OfficeXP, 1.2AMD, 256MB ram. While trying to save files to a floppy disk, my daughter got, among other errors, I guess: "You have insufficient memory to perform this operation", or something to that effect. She had already closed out/shutdown, and just called to rant. Her cursor exhibited some erratic behavior, too...basically Word no longer worked. A couple years back, I got the same/same type of message on my Win98SE machine (256 ram). I think I was trying to just format a floppy. I took care of it with a Config.sys tweak I stumbled across in a Fred Langa newsletter. I have been a W2K student for maybe two weeks, so at this point I can spell Win2K, but that is about it!
Thanks,
David Carter

**SparkyPatrick** · 2001-09-30 23:05

256Mb RAM should be plenty, but there are things that can eat up memory for no good reason. Too many shortcuts on the desktop; using the Office taskbar; programs in the system tray. There are things like Realplayer that take a little dissuading from appearing in the system tray - and a basic version comes with 2000. It runs in the background for no apparent reason. CTRL+ALT+DEL>Task Manager will give you an idea of what is running.

The open applications shouldn.t be a problem, but the list of processes may come as a shock (it does on my system!). You also get a view of how your system resources are being used. You can shut down unnecessary programs from here, but I haven't worked out the equivalent of msconfig for 2000 to stop things loading at startup.

**pdcart** · 2001-09-30 23:41

I was just wondering if the malfunctioning floppy drive I asked about in the Hardware Forum could be sucking the "resources" dry. Supposedly, the GDI/User Resources (Win98) are something like 124k...the amount of RAM really doesn't matter. I have read that bit of info, but I really don't know if the same applies to Win2000. There is not an excess of shortcuts/sys tray items/processes running. That puts me back on all counts to that A: drive. I'm looking for the MSCONFIG equivalent, too.
Thanks,
David

**SparkyPatrick** · 2001-10-01 00:17

Process of elimination: unplug the floppy drive and see if this helps (make sure the boot sequence in the BIOS does not go to the floppy first).

**mcdonald43** · 2001-10-01 13:47

I am a newbie to this forum, so please excuse any lapses in social skills. I have attached a file that is supposed to be the msconfig equivalent for Win2K Pro.
I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but if anyone is daring enough to try, let the group know.
Regards,
Mike

**MerC** · 2001-10-01 17:31

Hi Mike
I tried it. Works fine in Win 2kP, apart from the Help button. Where did this file come from?

Rgds

**mcdonald43** · 2001-10-05 15:39

I was able to download it from TweakFiles.com when they were still operating. That is if I remember correctly.
Regards,
Mike

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