background programs

[Guest]

Hi. Hope someone can help. When I play the Sims, the game crashes. I have tried to shut down programs running in the background using task manager but it then I get these dire warnings. So I end up playing with 16 programs running in the background and of course the game crashes. Any suggestions?

 

[MAP]

-----Original Message-----
Hi. Hope someone can help. When I play the Sims, the

game crashes. I have tried to shut down programs running
in the background using task manager but it then I get
these dire warnings. So I end up playing with 16 programs
running in the background and of course the game crashes.
Any suggestions?

.

16 is rather low I have 34 at bootup.Check out this link.
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
Hi. Hope someone can help. When I play the Sims, the

game crashes. I have tried to shut down programs running
in the background using task manager but it then I get
these dire warnings. So I end up playing with 16 programs
running in the background and of course the game crashes.
Any suggestions?

.
What operating system do you have and how much RAM is

present?L

 

[Guest]

I have windows xp and 256 mgs of ram. Thank you

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-----Original Message----
Hi. Hope someone can help. When I play the Sims, the

game crashes. I have tried to shut down programs running
in the background using task manager but it then I get
these dire warnings. So I end up playing with 16 programs
running in the background and of course the game crashes.
Any suggestions?

What operating system do you have and how much RAM is

present?

 

[Chuck]

I have windows xp and 256 mgs of ram. Thank you!

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game crashes. I have tried to shut down programs running
in the background using task manager but it then I get
these dire warnings. So I end up playing with 16 programs
running in the background and of course the game crashes.
Any suggestions?
present?L

Rosalie,

Add 256M. Cheap and effective. For WinXP, 512M is the minimum I'd recommend to
anybody.

For real-time analysis of your system, get Process Explorer (free) from
<http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml>. Provides way more
information than Task Manager, including graphical records of memory usage by
application.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.