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"Insufficient Memory" Message When Minimizing
DocumentID: 608836
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:33:50 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: The customer is running WordPerfect with QEMM 5.11 and Windows 3.0. The error message "Insufficient Memory To Run Application" appears if the customer starts WP, minimizes it, and then tries to run the DOS prompt icon or any other non-Windows application. Solutions: The customer was running out of disk space for swapping. When the customer created a permanent swap file on another disk, the problem no longer occurred. Instructions for setting up a permanent swap file can be found in the Microsoft Windows User's Guide on pages 521-523.

Another customer got the error "Insufficient Memory To Run Application" while minimizing WordPerfect 5.1 for Windows after creating or editing a document. The error did not appear if the customer minimized WPWin without opening a document. The error was caused by the command "paging=0" in the SYSTEM.INI file. This command did not allow Windows to swap to disk. Disabling the command eliminated the error.

A third customer got this error because only 87K of memory was available after the customer set up a permanent swap file as the executable memory size. The memory amount read 16087K, which with a permanent swap file left only 87K of physical memory that was not part of the swap file. This is not enough memory to run any large Windows application.

The customer had a .PIF file set up to run WP 5.0. Under Multitasking Options|Advanced, the foreground priority was set to 200, and under Display Options the Video Memory was set to Low Graphics. Because of these settings, Windows was not using the permanent swap file and could not swap the DOS application. The customer set the .PIF file back to the default options of Foreground Priority = 100 and Video Memory = Text. Doing these steps solved the problem.

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