yup.. Also runs in it's own mem space when started in a dos shell from windows. The only way to avoid having it there, would be to restart in dos mode (only win9x and me) ... :lol:
well then could the pogram just ask for more and more memory. i guess that couldnt help me out....
rotffl lmfao :rotfl:. I cant help laughing enough. God the ignorance!
As nathan very well explained - EMS/XMS dont exist in Win32 environment. And anyway all windows memory is protected so even if you *do* find a way to mess with the protected windows variables it will just end your program for messing with it =P.
Low on resources you say, is it speed, or memory?
If memory then, [hypothesis] it won't be enough to write over
the program code but you must also deallocate the memory [/hypothesis]
diroga, would you mind telling me which process you are talking about?
2 excel windows 3 word windows about 5 ie windows and a couple of qb windows, winamp (200+ songs), pluss utilities...
Quote:rotffl lmfao . I cant help laughing enough. God the ignorance!
Thats really unnecessary. Not everybody knows as much as you, how about explaining why he cant do what he wants too rather than acting like a jerk. We were all ignorant n00bs at one stage or another, and we only learned better because people who knew more than us took the time to explain things to us.
Diroga, protected mode, which is what Windows runs in uses a flat memory model. The current versions of Windows (9x and NT) are 32bit, so they use 32bit memory addressing which allows for 4GB of address space.
When a program is started, it is allocated its own 4GB of virtual address space. That program can use commands to read and write specific locations of memory, these are translated to the virtual address space, so a program can only read/write from its own virtual address space, there is no way that it can access the address space of another program.
Most computers dont have enough memory to allow several programs to be running at once all using 4GB of memory. Instead the operating system is resposible for determining which parts of each processes 4GB virtual address space need to be in the computers physical memory. If you want to know more about how this all works do google searches on memory management, paging and swapping.
To kill the apps you are having trouble with hit ctrl+alt+del to bring up the task manager. Try using "end task" in the applications list first, if that doesn't work try using "end process" or "end process tree" in the process list. You may need to wait for Windows to bring up one of those "This process isnt responding" dialogs and use that to kill it. If none of the above work then I think you may have a corrupted system.
If you havent noticed, Nathan already explained what you just rewrote.
Quote:2 excel windows 3 word windows about 5 ie windows and a couple of qb windows, winamp (200+ songs), pluss utilities...
Having two msdos windows opened at the same time is suicidal
Do you really need 10 windows opened? Specially with Win9X (if it's the case) that's a killer. My brother crashes every computer he touches just 'cause he does that: opens and opens and opens and opens windows and never close them.
Quote:If you havent noticed, Nathan already explained what you just rewrote
Well, not really. His explanation was better than mine
I always go rushed. Hopefully I always have someone with more knowledge to back me
Well, you can remove 4 of those windows by downloading Mozilla Firebird and learning about tabbed browsing
