Crazy
Mon Oct 11 13:42:54 CDT 2004
"Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message
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> Win Me is not designed for use with hard drives >137GB. Having a 160GB
> unpartitionend drive using the FAT32 filing system is IMO always going to
> create problems and it is likely that you will have problems when
> attempting to both defrag and scandisk (see KB229154 - "Your Computer Does
> Not Have Enough Free
> Memory to Defrag the Drive" Error Message"
> (
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=229154)) and you will also see a
> cosmetic problem when setting virtual memory (See MS KB272620 - "Negative
> Hard Disk Free Size Reported on Virtual Memory Tab in System Properties"
> (
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=272620)).
>
> Win Me, like previous Win 9x operating systems can handle up to 2GB of RAM
> however if you have more than 512MB it is essential to limit the virtual
> cache to no more than 512MB as follows:
> To limit vcache, open system.ini and add the lines
> [VCache]
> MaxFileCache=512000
> Note that this will still mean that all memory is available to
> applications
> but is simply limiting the amount used as virtual cache memory See KB
> 253912 - ""Out of Memory" Error Messages with Large Amounts of RAM
> Installed" (
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=253912).
> --
> Mike Maltby MS-MVP [2001-2005]
> mcmaltby@hotmail.com
>
>
> Steve Timko <lettermanfan@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > I have 512 megabytes of memory on my Dell 8100 using Windows ME. I
> > can't open more than one program at a time because I'll get error
> > messages that say I'm out of memory.
> > Norton Utilities says I have a system memory problem. I can't see that
> > I have any programs hogging a huge amount of system memory. Could it
> > be because I have a 160 gigabyte hard disk that's not partitioned?
> > Are there any simple fixes? If I went to a controller card and used
> > it's bios for the hard drive, would that free up memory?
> > Thanks in advance for any help.
>
Another cause of out of memory messages is a virus infection.
Steve