Mike, it's hard to work a problem like this, the way we have to do
it, a message and then hours of delay for an answer and then hours of
delay etcetera. But that's the way it is. A communication channel with
a bandwidth of .0001 Hertz maybe.

First you referred me to a Resource Meter. You said go
StartProgramsAccessoriesResource Meter. I got as far
as Accessories but found no Resource Meter.

I did get to a place with System Information, and everything
there looked just fine. Loads of everything and almost full
capacity showing as unused, available. I'm not sure that I
understand what you explained about 64K stacks, but you imply that
whatever I have running is filling up those stacks. I can't find the
Resource Meter but I can tell you that I have absolutely no known
applications running. Is there a way to look at the 64K stacks to see
if they are filled, and with what? I think I mentioned that I have
an MSDOS icon on my Desktop, but clicking it gives me the "Not
enough memory" error message.

My sequence was, I installed a video driver to get 800x whatever
resolution. All still okay. Then I tried to install a Conexant 56K
modem. Don't think I succeeded, but I'm in this not enough memory trap.
I'm in Selective Startup with nothing of MINE being loaded.

So have I told you enough, so that you can lead me out of this
trap?



Mike M wrote:
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.


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William B. Lurie