"Dangerously low in resources"

I can't open my windows program. When I click on
Microsoft Word, the logo comes up, freezes, and then
eventually gives me an error message of "dangerously low
in resources." I can't find out what this means as it
pertains to Windows ME. Can anyone help me. Thanks

John
Mon Dec 01 08:00:12 CST 2003

Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete and tell us what is showing in the box.

John

Marilyn wrote:

> I can't open my windows program. When I click on
> Microsoft Word, the logo comes up, freezes, and then
> eventually gives me an error message of "dangerously low
> in resources." I can't find out what this means as it
> pertains to Windows ME. Can anyone help me. Thanks

winslow
Mon Dec 01 10:19:42 CST 2003

I'm having a similar problem. My free memory (upper
memory?) has gotten increasingly problematic in the past
month. I'm using ME and it is an older laptop, but I
rarely use it and only have MS Office. Today, I can't
even run the McCafee antivirus update because
of "dangerously low resources." Could this be related to
the kernel32.dll errors that I've been getting for
awhile. I have chagned the vcache maxfilecache to = 512
mb, but it didn't seem to help. Is it a problem with swp
file? mine shows 102,400kb size.
other suggestions?


>-----Original Message-----
>I can't open my windows program. When I click on
>Microsoft Word, the logo comes up, freezes, and then
>eventually gives me an error message of "dangerously low
>in resources." I can't find out what this means as it
>pertains to Windows ME. Can anyone help me. Thanks
>.
>

Mike
Mon Dec 01 10:38:57 CST 2003

Locate and rename all copies of normal.dot to normal.old and then try opening
Word. If all is OK then you can by trial and error establish which of the
template files is corrupted or damaged.

For more details of this suggested fix see MS KB 307814 - "WD: Error Message:
System Is Dangerously Low on Resources"
(http://support.Microsoft.com?kbid=307814).
--
Mike Maltby
mcmaltby@hotmail.com


Marilyn <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I can't open my windows program. When I click on
> Microsoft Word, the logo comes up, freezes, and then
> eventually gives me an error message of "dangerously low
> in resources." I can't find out what this means as it
> pertains to Windows ME. Can anyone help me. Thanks

Linda
Mon Dec 01 12:50:33 CST 2003


>-----Original Message-----
>I can't open my windows program. When I click on
>Microsoft Word, the logo comes up, freezes, and then
>eventually gives me an error message of "dangerously low
>in resources." I can't find out what this means as it
>pertains to Windows ME. Can anyone help me. Thanks
>.
>
Who would guess it? But all you need to do is search for
file(s) named "normal.dot", delete this file or files and
you are back in business. I spent days working on this,
even reinstalling Word; then a Dell tech told
me "normal.dot" is a file generated by Word when it is
corrupted.

masterprometheus
Mon Dec 01 14:06:12 CST 2003


"Linda" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:007201c3b83c$00562520$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>

> >
> Who would guess it?

Mike M for example.

>But all you need to do is search for
> file(s) named "normal.dot", delete this file or files and
> you are back in business. I spent days working on this,
> even reinstalling Word; then a Dell tech told
> me "normal.dot" is a file generated by Word when it is
> corrupted.

A Dell tech misinformed you and i am not surprised.

But thanks anyway for sharing a solution (and that's a solution that
generally works).

MP