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Chances are two programs are crashing in memory. When you can, try to get the memory modules tested. But till then try to free up resources and reset resources allocation, its the number one reason for this problem. Also, make sure you have ideally 30% of your hard drive space available for windows to use as a paging file. You might scan, then
defrag the drive too.
To check the hard drive:
- Right click on the drive letter C: then go to properties. Here you will see under the general tab a pie chart showing used/available space on the drive. Un-check the allow indexing unless you do a lot of searches, its unnecessary. Do not compress the drive unless you are desperate for space.
- Click on the tools tab, run error checking and then defrag.
To free resources:
- Go to start menu---->Run then type in 'msconfig' enter. On the start-up tab will be most of the programs that are starting up when windows does.
- Un-check those that you recognize you don't need. Don't worry, you can go back and re-check them later if you wish. Every program installation likes to be running in the background, but mostly you don't need them. On my computer for example I unchecked the printer monitor and scanner monitor.
- Reboot the computer, then when the warning comes up click do not show this again.
Try it out, chances are this solved your problem. Remember, many programs simply misbehave in memory and do not follow the rules. An example of this is a program my son downloaded, it looks like someone made it in their garage and is trying to sell it. It caused many conflicts because the programmer did not follow
Microsoft's standards for memory usage.
Re-allocating resources:
- The first thing to do, is go to the bios page on your computer and reset the bios to re-recognize the hardware and allocate resources for it. This must be done each time you do anything with the hardware.
- Each mfr has key combinations to access the bios. Most just use the delete key. Turn off the computer completely then in a few seconds, turn it on again.
- As it is booting, hit the delete key repeatedly until it goes to the bios screen. Somewhere on the menu's there it will say something like 'pnp-pci' and have an option to clear or reset it. Make it do that, save and exit.
- As it is booting it will re-find all the attached hardware and allocate resources for it. When windows takes over, it uses these setting and assigns them sometimes in virtual settings.
To cause windows to reallocate resources:
- Boot the computer, right after the bios are done loading, but before windows loads (it might take a couple tries) push F8 repeatedly. This will bring up a boot menu, choose safe mode. When windows loads in safe mode it loads as few drivers as possible.
- After it has completely loaded, completely shut down through the start menu. After a few seconds restart the computer, bios will load new setting, windows will load new setting! If the menu comes up, simply click normal start-up.
Sorry for the lengthy explaination, you can choose which parts to do. If you do it all you can have a little more confidence. Make sure you do the 'free resources' part, this will usually fix that problem.
I would suggest you also go to a free site that does an online check of your computer, and makes great suggestions. Go to
pcpitstop.com and run their tests.
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