billurie wrote :-

..... but I can't tell you
about resources until I find the Resource Meter

May not have been installed yet?

Start | Settings | Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs \ Windows Setup -
System Tools - System Resource Meter (and System Monitor)

BTW - Mike did mention the 'System Tools' folder when referring to 'System
Monitor' in the last paragraph of his first post :-

.... but you can use Win Me's system monitor
(Start | Programs | Accessories | System Tools) etc....

BTW - in your first post, you said :-

But I have practically nothing running.

Hmm .. Have you confirmed that your pc is virus/malware/scumware/hijackware
free, using the latest signature AV definitions and other anti-malware
utilities - before you start worrying about resources?

Mart



wrote in message ...
Mike, my comment about hours of delay was based on experience
in parallel newsgroups (both 98 and XP). Your turnaround time
was most unusual and I assure you, exemplary and most welcome.
I'm sorry you read it as a criticism; that shoe certainly didn't
fit you.

As for it being a "not enough memory" trap, I called it that
because those were the words in the error message. I did understand
that you feel the problem is with resources, but I can't tell you
about resources until I find the Resource Meter. In a way, the 5-hour
time differential across the pond is a help; I post this at 2230
hours, my time, 0330 yours, and when I sign in again, it will be
1200 hours BST and perhaps you will have given me steps to follow,
things to do and report back.

I went back again and see if I could find Resource Meter. Search
didn't find it. I did go AccessoriesSystem ToolsSystem Information
but still no Resource Meter. I looked at all the data and expanded
just about everything but if the 64K stack information is to be gleaned
there, I didn't recognise it. Perhaps, now that you know where I'm able to
go on my system, you'll tell me where to look for this stack
information, and what it will be named, so that we can pin down the source
of my problem.

Mike M wrote:
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.

I'm sorry but I feel that is little short of rubbish especially "then
hours of delay for an answer". First these are peer to peer support
newsgroups where helpers may be anywhere in the world and not always
around when someone asks a question. Secondly I responded to your
initial enquiry within 42 minutes of it being posted and I started on
this second message just 10 minutes after your last post. If that isn't
quick enough for you then I feel perhaps you should take your PC down to
your local computer shop and pay them to sort out the problem for you.

OK I omitted to mention looking in the System Tools folder in Start |
Programs | Accessories but to be honest that would have only taken you
what, 10 seconds at most?

Don't think I succeeded, but I'm in this not enough memory trap.

Did you read my earlier message in which I thought I had stated that it
was pretty unlikely that the problem was due to lack of memory but rather
one of lack of resources? Did you look for the resource meter? Windows
Explorer's search would have helped if you hadn't thought to look in the
Accessories system tools folder.

Please don't expect me to reply to any further post for many hours. It's
well gone 2 a.m. where I am and I won't be around now until tomorrow.


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William B. Lurie