Maximum windows allowed in XP

[trex6977]

I am wondering if anyone knows how to increase the maximum
allowed open windows to be increased, the limit seems to
be around 65 open windows at once. I would like to get to
at least 100 open windows.
System is 2.5 Ghz processor and 768 Mb ram, w/XP home
edition.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Why would anyone need 100 open windows at one time?

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| I am wondering if anyone knows how to increase the maximum
| allowed open windows to be increased, the limit seems to
| be around 65 open windows at once. I would like to get to
| at least 100 open windows.
| System is 2.5 Ghz processor and 768 Mb ram, w/XP home
| edition.

 

[Guest]

When you had 65 open did you look at the task mamager to
see what you memory usage was ??

 

[David Jones]

The limit is normally the amount of RAM available - for
example, I just wrote a quick script that opens 500
command prompt windows and ran it on my XP machine (AMD
Athlon 2100+, 1 GB of RAM).

500 command prompt windows opened with no problem.

Most likely, all the different things you're opening are
taking up RAM, and you're eventually just running out of
RAM to keep opening up new things.

 

[anyone]

Find some better use for your horsepower.

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

New game? Call it "open the window".

 

[Grant]

I am wondering if anyone knows how to increase the maximum
allowed open windows to be increased, the limit seems to
be around 65 open windows at once. I would like to get to
at least 100 open windows.
System is 2.5 Ghz processor and 768 Mb ram, w/XP home
edition.

No such limit on my system (Athlon 2000+, 512MB ram, XP Pro). I just opened 150
notepads just for you...

 

[Les Herrman]

Why would anyone need 100 open windows at one time?

Exactly what I was wondering.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I am wondering if anyone knows how to increase the maximum
allowed open windows to be increased, the limit seems to
be around 65 open windows at once. I would like to get to
at least 100 open windows.

THere appears to be a hard limit at around that point - AFAIK there is
no way around