BTW IMHO The easiest way to check available resources on Win95 is to right
click on "My Computer". This brings up "System Info" and you can see the
available resources.
Have a super day everyone.
David Marshall
dmarshal@@ucalgary.ca
On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, John M. Goodman wrote:
>
> Many (most?) Windows "out of memory" problems occur not because you don't
> have enough memory--or even enough virtual memory (disk space). Instead
> they are caused by running too low on resource space. This is a small
> number of very small (64kB each) "heaps" in which Windows keeps track of
> various things.
>
> Go to Help|About in File Manager (Win3.x) or in Windows Explorer (Win95) to
> see one reading on how much free resource space you have. In Windows 3.x a
> figure of less than about 30% is often a disasterously low amount. In
> Windows 95 the corresponding figure is somewhat higher, because of the way
> Win95 reports this value. I'd suggest that anything under 50% is problematic.
>
> The best way to free up more resource space is to load a program called
> Hurricane from Helix Software (now a part of NAI). You can find out more at
> the NAI web site:
>
> http://www.nai.com/products/retail/diagnostic/hurricane.asp
>
> Good luck.
>
> John
>
> At 11:29 PM 6/1/98 -0600, you wrote:
> >Hello all,
> >
> >I've been on this list for sometime because of my research in this area.
> >Well, now I find myself needing the technology because of an RSI.
> >
> >I began by installing the program onto a Zip Disk, thinking that because I
> >do my computer work in a public lab, this would be the best idea.
> >Everything worked fine throughout the training but today when I went to
> >use Dragon I kept getting an "Out of Memory" error. I tried reinstalling
> >it on the hard drive but still got the same error. The machine, which has
> >32 MB of memory was showing 80% free when this was happening. The only
> >thing that I did differently was to copy my training file from the Zip
> >Disk.
> >
> >Can anybody help me? Please.
> >
> >David Marshall B.Ed.
> >dmarshal@@ucalgary.ca
>
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> John M. Goodman, Ph.D., author of "Peter Norton's Inside the PC,"
> Seventh Edition (Sams 1997, ISBN 0-672-31041-4)
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