IE computer problem

[southerngirlwriter]

"The program was unable to load an image due to low system memory."

What does that mean? What should I do? I have tons of RAM and only one browser window open. :shrug:

[Occulus]

1. Reboot.

See if the problem persists. Get adaware from lavasoftusa.com and install it and clean stuff up. Spybot S&D is also a good choice, but it lets you go in deep and alter the registry so be careful.

[Pale Blue Dot]

2. You may have spyware hogging resources.

Do you have Ad-aware or Spybot? If not, download them right away. They are free, and they'll remove all that nasty stuff.

[necso]

3. Look at free disk space.

Never count on a MS error message to be specific.

It could be a "virtual memory" problem... or some other problem for that matter.

[southerngirlwriter]

4. OK, I'll reboot.

I have a Mac and have never had a virus or anything like that. I'm not entirely sure what "spyware" is, to tell you the truth. I'll reboot right now and see if that fixes it.

Thanks! :hi:

[Rooktoven]

5. Seriously--

Use Safari or Mozilla Firefox instead of IE.

Both are far superior to IE on macs.

[southerngirlwriter]

13. where can I get them?

nt

[neoteric lefty]

6. Reformat

Your machine and get MOZILLA as a web browser. Much quicker for pages to load up and has automatically blocks pop ups and such.

[ChoralScholar]

7. If you're using XP or 2000

Ctrl-Alt-Del and check your Task Manager and see what's eating up your resources.

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Here's the stupidly stupid thing about MS

and I use it, wuold never go mac, but MS drives me bonkers sometimes.

I have, I odn't know, 500MB or so of memory, and a 100GB hard drive.

I get that same error you do whenever my harddrive gets to below about 9 GB of free memory.

Is that insane? Sweet jesus, my first computer had a 10MB harddrive, and I never got that problem. My first laptop had 100MB, and I never got that problem. My next desktop had two 6GB hardrives, and I never had that problem.

But now, apparently, less 9GB of free space is a "memory emergency".

Cripes.

[DS1]

9. eh, I've had both my main drives down to zero before

it trucked through it, deleted some files, it sped back up.

Mileage may vary, I suppose :shrug:

edit to clarify ~I~ was the one that deleted the files. But you're right, M$ is all about bloat, I cringe everytime I log into a machine at work I haven't logged in before, and hear it making yet another giant footprint full of folders and default files for a user id I'm going to use for all but 5 minutes :grr:

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. wow -

mine pretty much consistently works perfectly until I hit that magic 9GB point, and then it will stop opening new windows as well as new programs. And it's from something hogging resources, either. I've been monitoring over the last many months, always checking for resources hogs or spyware, etc., and I've realized that the memory errors and sluggish response is consistently caused by not having "enough" hard drive space, even though the harddrive space is way more than my other computers had in TOTAL space...

but, we take what we get and try to live with it, I guess...

[DS1]

11. I found this guide somewhere on Znet once

If I run across it again I'll PM you, but it lists all the main services for XP and 2000, what they do and what effects disabling them will have on your system. I managed to clear out about half of mine, knocked 40% of my boot time off, and saved about 20 megs worth of ram that was wasted on crap.

Plus, disabling that fat hog Dr. Waston and Error Reporting let me start killing frozen programs left and right without worrying about sitting through yet another stack dump.

[Bossy Monkey]

21. Here's a couple

For every Windows there is: http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php

For Win9x: http://www2.whidbey.com/djdenham/Uncheck.htm

[jayfish]

12. Just A Thought...

that you will have to test on your own. IE by default wants to use 10% of your HD space for "temporary internet files" thats 10Gigs on a 100GB drive. Going below 10GB of free space on your drive may me triggering some kind of BS MS resource warning. Try reducing your temp internet file space to 1%. Thats still a gig of crap.

Jay

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. No, I've set it to 35MB of space for temp files

though likely there's something there somewhere that wants that 9G or so of drive space.

But it isn't for temp internet files.

Even my paging file is only 720 MB, and to the best of my knowledge there isn't a setting anywhere else that wants to reserve 9GB of space for anything.

Any other ideas?

[jayfish]

15. Do You Have One HDD...

or multiple HDD's?

Jay

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. Just one

theroetically a 100 GB, though just over 93 G in actual B, of course.

[jayfish]

17. Well My Next Idea Won't Work Then.

Not without a lot of work anyway. You've probably thought of it.

Jay

[jayfish]

18. New Thought.

Is your page file set a static size or is it a range? This is a very long shot and not very likely to work. If your page file is dynamic, maybe it is trying to expand into an area that is heavily fragmented and is unable to do so. You could try setting your page file as low as possible and then defragment your drive. When the defrag finishes set your page file to a size that is 1.5 times your RAM on the high an low end. It's an old 95/98 trick but it might work. I'm not sure how NT/2k/XP will act with such a low amount of virtual memory so be careful. I used to be able to disable VM in 98 and get a "perfect" defrag.

Jay

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. No, I defragged a week or so ago,

and actually the drive was only barely fragged to begin with. And the page file is static, at whatever I said before: 750MB or 720MB or something, which is roughly 1.5 times the actual RAM.

I appreciate you continuing to think about it, though. :-)

Here, have a beer: :beer:

[jayfish]

20. The Strange Thing About This Is...

that I did a few searches for the error and it appears to be a problem that is exclusive to IE on the Mac. Very strange indeed. I'll sleep on it. OMT... Does this error create an entry in the event log?

Jay

[Rabrrrrrr]

22. Where do I find that event log?

[jayfish]

23. Control Panel ->...

Administrative Tools-> Event Viewer. Look at the application and system logs.

Jay

[Rabrrrrrr]

25. Found the logs (thanks!) and looked through,

but I can't remember the last time it happened (it was a week or so ago, after which I became tired of the errors/lack of memory to "run that program" and moved a bunch of stuff off the harddrive, and haven't had the error since).

So, I looked through the application and system logs, but didn't see any errors that were obviously due to this, though for the most part, most of the messages were indicipherable as to what they were for.

:shrug:

[jayfish]

26. The Next Time You Get The Error,...

go to the event logs right away. The key thing I need is the event #. PM me with that number and I'll find out what it is.

Jay

[earthsea wizard]

24. Whats probably happening is this -

You let windows handle virtual memory, and it uses the entire open area of you hard drive.

When that area is reduced to below 10% of the drive space, you get the warning.

One possible way to deal with that is to take over the handling of virtual memory, and set it to 1GB of your drive. If I'm thinking correctly, you'll eliminate the warning messages (until you have only about 100 MB of driver space free).