System running low on resources

there is no definite answer but this will explain resources to you and ways to avoid that happenening


http://216.167.71.32/techfiles/win-resources.html

That's a nice article you found, sorgie.  Offshoreac, are you sure "there is nothing else open"?  Look in your System Tray area; are there a number of icons next to the system clock?  Each one of those represents some sort of program running, which was started at bootup.  You might have an antivirus program running, an Adaptec CD drive wizard, AOL Instant Messenger (or some other company's equivalent, like MSN Messenger), all sorts of things.  I would suggest you go to the Run dialog off the Start Menu, type in MSCONFIG, click OK, go to the Startup tab, and uncheck just about everything but Explorer and Systray, reboot, start up the Resource meter that sorgie's article talks about, then re-enable the other startup programs one at a time, and keep checking the resource use.  Often the system tray program icons can be right clicked, giving you an option to exit them.  Check to see that the resources used by the program are returned to the system.  If they don't, then you have a buggy program that has a "resource leak" when it closes.  Here is another set of articles on the subject of resources that you might find useful to read, a four-part series by Fred Langa, that appeared in the now defunct Winmag.com:


http://content.techweb.com/winmag/columns/explorer/2000/11.htm 

http://content.techweb.com/winmag/columns/explorer/2000/12.htm

http://content.techweb.com/winmag/columns/explorer/2000/13.htm

http://content.techweb.com/winmag/columns/explorer/2000/14.htm

Thanks will check these out.

Something strange though if I open the Word document through Word everything is OK. Is Explorer the culprit?

could be just not having explorer opened is enough to open word and the doc.

Good point sorgie

thanks CrazyOne, I will try this and let you know how it works

:>)

offshoreac do you need any more assistance.