Too Much Memory???

I recently upgraded a Dell Dimension from 512MB ram to 1280MB. We have
an older program, (around 2001) Stromberg Time in a Box v2.5, that
will not start. I get a message The Computer is Un-Authorized to run
this Program. I'm not on support and don't want to pay for it. Sales
told me this is too much memory for this program. We tried
"Compatibility Mode" for Windows 98 and Windows 95 and would not work.
Is there any way I can tell this program to only recognize 512MB
memory?

philo
Fri Mar 21 12:14:50 PDT 2008


"DonR" <don@swoodpallet.com> wrote in message
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>I recently upgraded a Dell Dimension from 512MB ram to 1280MB. We have
> an older program, (around 2001) Stromberg Time in a Box v2.5, that
> will not start. I get a message The Computer is Un-Authorized to run
> this Program. I'm not on support and don't want to pay for it. Sales
> told me this is too much memory for this program. We tried
> "Compatibility Mode" for Windows 98 and Windows 95 and would not work.
> Is there any way I can tell this program to only recognize 512MB
> memory?

When running msconfig...
In the advanced options of boot.ini
there is the ability to limit memory ...
but of course you'd have to create two seperate boot configurations
(assuming that limiting memory in boot.ini would do the trick)

Leonard
Fri Mar 21 11:21:21 PDT 2008

There is no such thing as 'too much memory'.

Sounds like you don't have the necessary permission to access the
application. If this was an application that you purchased and setup
yourself, you would not have this issue.

Here is Stromberh Support:
http://www.stromberg.com/services/

---
Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

DonR wrote:
> I recently upgraded a Dell Dimension from 512MB ram to 1280MB. We have
> an older program, (around 2001) Stromberg Time in a Box v2.5, that
> will not start. I get a message The Computer is Un-Authorized to run
> this Program. I'm not on support and don't want to pay for it. Sales
> told me this is too much memory for this program. We tried
> "Compatibility Mode" for Windows 98 and Windows 95 and would not work.
> Is there any way I can tell this program to only recognize 512MB
> memory?

DonR
Fri Mar 21 11:30:50 PDT 2008

On Mar 21, 2:21=A0pm, Leonard Grey <Leon...@Grey.invalid> wrote:
> There is no such thing as 'too much memory'.
>
> Sounds like you don't have the necessary permission to access the
> application. If this was an application that you purchased and setup
> yourself, you would not have this issue.
>
> Here is Stromberh Support:http://www.stromberg.com/services/
>
> ---
> Leonard Grey
> Errare humanum est

It doesn't appear to be a permission issue; we removed memory back to
512 and the program opens fine...

Michael
Fri Mar 21 12:14:36 PDT 2008

DonR wrote:
> On Mar 21, 2:21 pm, Leonard Grey <Leon...@Grey.invalid> wrote:
>> There is no such thing as 'too much memory'.
>>
>> Sounds like you don't have the necessary permission to access the
>> application. If this was an application that you purchased and setup
>> yourself, you would not have this issue.
>>
>> Here is Stromberh Support:http://www.stromberg.com/services/
>>
>> ---
>> Leonard Grey
>> Errare humanum est
>
> It doesn't appear to be a permission issue; we removed memory back to
> 512 and the program opens fine...

Maybe the program checks the computer's configuration before starting as
a form of copy protection. It sees differences in the setup and assumes
that it is on a new computer and needs to be installed "properly" before
it will work.

smlunatick
Sat Mar 22 06:32:04 PDT 2008

On Mar 21, 2:30=A0pm, DonR <d...@swoodpallet.com> wrote:
> On Mar 21, 2:21=A0pm, Leonard Grey <Leon...@Grey.invalid> wrote:
>
> > There is no such thing as 'too much memory'.
>
> > Sounds like you don't have the necessary permission to access the
> > application. If this was an application that you purchased and setup
> > yourself, you would not have this issue.
>
> > Here is Stromberh Support:http://www.stromberg.com/services/
>
> > ---
> > Leonard Grey
> > Errare humanum est
>
> It doesn't appear to be a permission issue; we removed memory back to
> 512 and the program opens fine...

This seems to tell "us" that the program was never "developed" to be
ran off the newer PC configs. Ther does not seem to be a method of
limiting memory direectly in XP. You might want to like at Virtual PC
(??) which you might be able to set up a RAM limit.