Memory has little or nothing to do with the amount of free space on your
hard drive and rather more to do with the amount of RAM you have installed
and the size of the swap file.

However I feel the error message you saw is probably incorrect in stating
that you were short on memory but instead should have said that you were
short on resources. Resources in this case being two fixed size 64K
stacks used to store 16 bit pointers and the like. You say you had little
running at the time but is it possible that you had several background
applications being launched when you boot your PC. For example using AOL
is very resource intensive. You can check the amount of free resources by
using the Resource Meter (Start | Programs | Accessories | Resource Meter
and keeping an eye on the amount of free system and user resources.

Sadly it is impossible in Win Me to increase the size of these two 64K
stacks, this it has in common with earlier Win 9x operating systems such
as Win 98 and one reason why Win9x systems can only multi-task to a
limited extent, far less so than NT based systems such as XP which does
not have these two stacks.

Please tell me how I can run Task Manager in ME so
that I can see what's happening in RAM.

You don't but you can use Win Me's system monitor (Start | Programs |
Accessories | System Tools) but as I have already mentioned I doubt that
the problem is with your RAM but rather with the two fixed size 16 bit
stacks.
--
Mike Maltby
MS-MVP Windows




wrote:

But I have plenty (1GB) and 3 GB empty on hard drive.
This is a fairly new installation and I just upgraded to
video so that I could use high resolution. When I
went to setup the modem, it wouldn't let me......
not enough memory, close some programs. But I have
practically nothing running.

Please tell me how I can run Task Manager in ME so
that I can see what's happening in RAM.

Thanks.