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Bob Horton
Hi.
I am running a system with XP Pro SP2, all updates installed. The ASUS A8V
system has 2 GB of PC3200 RAM, an Athlon 4000+ processor, 2 HDD's (the
system drive is a 300 GB Maxtor SATA with 16 MB cache, the storage drive is
a 200 GB Western Digital. I have an ATI 256 MB AGP video card. I have the
full version of Office 2003 installed, including Outlook 2003. Norton
System Works 2004. I run various spyware programs weekly. The system is
behind a NAT firewall. There appear to be no viruses or spyware present.
Very recently (after the last round of MS security updates), I started
receiving the message "Out of system resources. Close some windows or
programs and try again". I searched this group and others for a solution
and came up dry, though others had a similar but somewhat different error
message they were dealing with. This message seems to occur only in
Outlook, although it may have occurred once when trying to print a document
in Word (another user, so I'm not sure that's true, but I use Word as the
email editor in Outlook). It has happened doing various tasks like trying
to save an email draft, trying to open emails, or even trying to move emails
from one folder to another. It happens in two different profiles, so I
don't think that's the issue. It happened this AM after a fresh reboot with
only Outlook 2003 open (no other programs or windows were open). I got the
message when trying to drag a file from the inbox to a personal storage
folder. I shut down Outlook, restarted it, and everything is fine for the
moment. I have reduced the number of start-up items with msconfig to those
that appear to be essential (mostly related to Norton System Works, ASUS
Probe, my mouse/keyboard software, and scanner utility). I have done the
same for processes. I have many other systems running with much less memory
and many more programs and services running with no problems.
I attempted to do a system restore but ran into the dreaded "unable to
restore" error (I have since repaired that issue through the "turn off, turn
on" system restore process. I am beginning to think I may have to wipe this
system and start over, but since it is our main graphics machine and has a
lot of software installed on it, I really would like a simpler solution if
someone has a suggestion.
TIA for any thoughts.
I am running a system with XP Pro SP2, all updates installed. The ASUS A8V
system has 2 GB of PC3200 RAM, an Athlon 4000+ processor, 2 HDD's (the
system drive is a 300 GB Maxtor SATA with 16 MB cache, the storage drive is
a 200 GB Western Digital. I have an ATI 256 MB AGP video card. I have the
full version of Office 2003 installed, including Outlook 2003. Norton
System Works 2004. I run various spyware programs weekly. The system is
behind a NAT firewall. There appear to be no viruses or spyware present.
Very recently (after the last round of MS security updates), I started
receiving the message "Out of system resources. Close some windows or
programs and try again". I searched this group and others for a solution
and came up dry, though others had a similar but somewhat different error
message they were dealing with. This message seems to occur only in
Outlook, although it may have occurred once when trying to print a document
in Word (another user, so I'm not sure that's true, but I use Word as the
email editor in Outlook). It has happened doing various tasks like trying
to save an email draft, trying to open emails, or even trying to move emails
from one folder to another. It happens in two different profiles, so I
don't think that's the issue. It happened this AM after a fresh reboot with
only Outlook 2003 open (no other programs or windows were open). I got the
message when trying to drag a file from the inbox to a personal storage
folder. I shut down Outlook, restarted it, and everything is fine for the
moment. I have reduced the number of start-up items with msconfig to those
that appear to be essential (mostly related to Norton System Works, ASUS
Probe, my mouse/keyboard software, and scanner utility). I have done the
same for processes. I have many other systems running with much less memory
and many more programs and services running with no problems.
I attempted to do a system restore but ran into the dreaded "unable to
restore" error (I have since repaired that issue through the "turn off, turn
on" system restore process. I am beginning to think I may have to wipe this
system and start over, but since it is our main graphics machine and has a
lot of software installed on it, I really would like a simpler solution if
someone has a suggestion.
TIA for any thoughts.