pchelp1
06-05-2005, 04:08 PM
Hi,
For the last few weeks, I get a large white rectangular message box without text in it except for "Close" (with the C underlined). When I try to open a program after closing the mystery box, I get the following error message:
Not enough free memory to run this program. Quit 1 or more programs then try
again.
After trying to open anything, system gets very slow and I lose patience and do a soft reboot, then eveything works fine until the box appears again after several hours. Sometimes have to do a hard reboot to get the computer to turn off. Box appears even if I just reboot and don't open anything. Takes several hours for the box to appear, whether I've opened anything or not.
Have HP 6736, 64 MB RAM upgraded to 256 MB a few years ago, Lynksys 10.100
LAN card added a few years ago, WIN ME (yeah, I know better now!), cable
connection, MCAfee Virus Scan and Personal Firewall (from their site), Google
toolbar with popup blocker, Earthlink as ISP, Earthlink webmail with spam
blocker, Outlook Express, CWS, AdAware, Spybot Search and Destroy HJT. All
services up to date including HP updates.
Turned off System Restore, then in Safe Mode did disc cleanup, scan disc,
defrag, CWS, AdAware, Spybot, McAfee virus scan, turned on System Restore,
restarted -did this several times, no big stuff found by those programs.
Also did online virus scan-negative.
Any help would be appreciated.
For the last few weeks, I get a large white rectangular message box without text in it except for "Close" (with the C underlined). When I try to open a program after closing the mystery box, I get the following error message:
Not enough free memory to run this program. Quit 1 or more programs then try
again.
After trying to open anything, system gets very slow and I lose patience and do a soft reboot, then eveything works fine until the box appears again after several hours. Sometimes have to do a hard reboot to get the computer to turn off. Box appears even if I just reboot and don't open anything. Takes several hours for the box to appear, whether I've opened anything or not.
Have HP 6736, 64 MB RAM upgraded to 256 MB a few years ago, Lynksys 10.100
LAN card added a few years ago, WIN ME (yeah, I know better now!), cable
connection, MCAfee Virus Scan and Personal Firewall (from their site), Google
toolbar with popup blocker, Earthlink as ISP, Earthlink webmail with spam
blocker, Outlook Express, CWS, AdAware, Spybot Search and Destroy HJT. All
services up to date including HP updates.
Turned off System Restore, then in Safe Mode did disc cleanup, scan disc,
defrag, CWS, AdAware, Spybot, McAfee virus scan, turned on System Restore,
restarted -did this several times, no big stuff found by those programs.
Also did online virus scan-negative.
Any help would be appreciated.