wasnsr@nmt.edu (T.O.R.S.O.) (11/03/90)
I am hoping somebody can help me out with a problem I
just ran up on with windows. Yesterday I noticed that
for some reason, Windows will no longer run any of my
non-windows applications, i.e.- Word Perfect, Harvard Graphics
,Procomm Plus, Cshow, various games, even the dos shell. Whenever
I try to run any of them it gives me the error "Insufficient Memory
to Run Application". Now, as of two or three days ago, I could run
all of these programs through windows (both full screen and windowed).
Now, I can't run any of them, even with everything but the Program
Manager closed. Here are some of the particulars of my system.
Clone 386 20MHz
2 MB RAM
SVGA MONITOR & CARD
Windows 3.0 (running in 386 Enhanced Mode)
here are copies of my current Autoxec.bat & config.sys-
******** AUTOEXEC.BAT ******************
MONITOR.COM
@echo off
break=on
prompt $p$g
path d:\win;d:\qemm;c:\;c:\utility;c:\dos;c:\pcplus;c:\pctools;c:\utility\sigma;c:\pckwik;d:\fortran\bin;d:\ee\schema;d:\tasm;d:\utility\uxdos
set pcplus=c:\pcplus
set acad=d:\acad\support
set acadcfg=d:\acad
set gmk4=d:\g4
set nu=c:\utility
set lib=d:\fortran\lib
set tmp=d:\fortran\tmp
set include=d:\fortran\include
set init=d:\fortran\bin
nonum
nde
mirror c: d: e: f:
pckkey /i+ /r4a
set temp=d:\win\temp
****** CONFIG.SYS ********************
files = 30
buffers = 40
device=C:\himem.sys
DEVICE=C:\GMOUSE.SYS 2
shell=c:\command.com /e:512 /p
device=d:\win\smartdrv.sys 768
device=d:\win\ega.sys
I checked through both of them myself and could not
see anything different about them. Also, when I pick
"About Program Manager" from the help menu, it says that
system usage is about 70-75% and that my free memory is
1500K. When I run the windows application FREEMEM that
I got off cica, it shows me with about 522K free with
everything except the program manager closed.
I am at a loss, so if any you Windows experts out
there see anthing that I missed (which I probably have).
Please, please please tell me what it is.
Thanks in advance,
Wayne,
(wasnsr@jupiter.nmt.edu)
P.S.- if you can't see anything obvious and you want more
information about my system, send me e-mail.tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones) (11/08/90)
The original post indicated that suddenly "insufficient memory" was preventing DOS apps from running in Windows. Looking at the provided config I see 2 megs RAM and a Super VGA card. My guess is a real fancy Windows Background which in my experience subtracts from the 640K DOS memory available. I use a background of NONE or a small tile! Let me know if this was it tj