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.
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