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Excel Freezes
How do you know you have plenty of resources?
Resources are not the same as RAM, if that's what you are referring to. Are you running Windows 98/98SE/ME or Windows XP? XP does not have the "low resources" problems as 98 and ME had. Gord Dibben Excel MVP On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:01:03 -0700, "PeggySue" wrote: Within the last few days, I have experienced problems when I quit Excel 2000. The computer freezes, I get a message the resources a low, and then my computer crashes. The resources low message is an error as I have plenty. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Excel, and downloaded and installed all Office 2000 updates. Anyone know the source of this problem and the solution? |
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Excel Freezes
I'm running 98SE. I thought resources were RAM so maybe I don't have enough
resources. I know that without running Excel I have almost 70% of free resources. "Gord Dibben" wrote: How do you know you have plenty of resources? Resources are not the same as RAM, if that's what you are referring to. Are you running Windows 98/98SE/ME or Windows XP? XP does not have the "low resources" problems as 98 and ME had. Gord Dibben Excel MVP On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:01:03 -0700, "PeggySue" wrote: Within the last few days, I have experienced problems when I quit Excel 2000. The computer freezes, I get a message the resources a low, and then my computer crashes. The resources low message is an error as I have plenty. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Excel, and downloaded and installed all Office 2000 updates. Anyone know the source of this problem and the solution? |
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Excel Freezes
PeggySue
RAM and Resources are not the same thing. I enclose below a quote from Ron Martell(MS MVP Windows) regarding "system resources". Makes for some enlightening reading.....Resources vs RAM. ***Start Ron Martell Quote*** System Resources refers to two 64K blocks of memory that Windows allocates to programs for tracking purposes. These blocks are called User Resources and GDI Resources respectively and Windows reports whichever has the least available free space as the value for "Free System Resources". The value of Free System Resources should not be a concern unless and until you start getting "System Resources are getting low" type warning messages, which generally happens at about the 10% level. In test circumstances it has been shown possible for a computer to operate at full performance with System Resources showing zero percent free. System Resources are totally unrelated to the amount of RAM installed in your computer and adding more RAM will not affect the System Resources (unless you start running more applications because you have more RAM). System Resource usage is determined by the number and type of applications that you have running on the computer. Certain types of applications have been shown to be especially demanding in terms of System Resource usage: - "Eye and Ear Candy" such as Active Desktop View As Web Page, sound effect schemes, animated mouse cursors and desktop icons, and fancy screen savers. - Web browsers, as each open browser window requires additional resources. - Multimedia applications of all types - System monitoring utilities such as Norton SystemWorks. If you are running any 16 bit applications (DOS or Windows 3.x) then Windows 95/98 will treat the System Resources allocated to all of these applications as one block and will not release any of them for reuse unless and until all of the open 16 bit applications have been closed. Also, when an application is loaded it is quite common that it will also require some additional Windows components to be loaded as well. However, when that application is closed Windows will, by design, retain the Windows components because they are likely to be needed again. Therefore the resources initially allocated when an application is opened will not all be released when that application is closed. Most, but not all. Hope this explains the situation. Good luck. ****End Ron Martell quote***** You run out of resources, not memory. Try closing a few of those running processes. Upgrade to Windows XP.....it has no problem with resources because it handles them differently. That's why WinXP is so much more stable. Gord On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:45:02 -0700, "PeggySue" wrote: I'm running 98SE. I thought resources were RAM so maybe I don't have enough resources. I know that without running Excel I have almost 70% of free resources. "Gord Dibben" wrote: How do you know you have plenty of resources? Resources are not the same as RAM, if that's what you are referring to. Are you running Windows 98/98SE/ME or Windows XP? XP does not have the "low resources" problems as 98 and ME had. Gord Dibben Excel MVP On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:01:03 -0700, "PeggySue" wrote: Within the last few days, I have experienced problems when I quit Excel 2000. The computer freezes, I get a message the resources a low, and then my computer crashes. The resources low message is an error as I have plenty. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Excel, and downloaded and installed all Office 2000 updates. Anyone know the source of this problem and the solution? |
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