Low on resources? XP Pro

[Wowbagger]

XP Pro running a P-4 with 1Gb of RAM.

Outlook comes right out and tells me that I am "low on system resources".
Outlook Express was giving me "out of memory" errors. I am unable to
cut/paste photos from one directory to another, nor am I able to open new
folder windows. By closing some of the folder windows I had open I can get
this post out, but for the life of me I can't identify -which- resources are
low.

System is clean of all known viruses/worms/trojans

Task manager says I have 58 processes, commit charge: 518M / 2928M (I'm not
even using half of my physical memory!)
Handles: 17717
Threads: 761

Commit Charge (K)
Total: 530824
Limit: 2998720
Peak: 795392

Physical Memory (K)
Total: 1046528
Available: 470496
System Cache: 546104

Kernel Memory (K)
Total: 109072
Paged: 90116
Nonpaged: 18948

CPU usage bounces between 1-22 depending if I am actually typing or not.

I couldn't open perfmon (out of resources) until I closed Outlook - if I
reboot I'll be perfectly fine again. This is a frequent problem.

What resources could I possibly be maxing out?

 

[Gerry Cornell]

What are your anti-spyware arrangements?

How large is your hard drive? Is it partitioned? How much free space on
each drive / partition. How is the drive formatted -FAT32 or NTFS. To
get this information whilst in Windows Explorer place the cursor on each
drive in turn, right click and select Properties.

In Outlook Express try File, Folder, Compact All whilst Offline. Out of
memory messages can occur if folders.dbx has become corrupted.
http://www.insideoe.com/problems/performance.htm#slow

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
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[Wowbagger]

I have a 75Gb drive with 30Gb free, single NTFS partition.

The out of memory errors I was getting in oe are related to the mysterious
lack of system resources - it only shows up when everything else is going
nuts.