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I probably don't have the pressures and complexity that some of you
contributors do, but I'm grateful for SP3 in XP Home & Professional editions.
On my "Home" pc, I never could bump up the mem [depite adding 1000 MB Dimm
stick] to use my Photo/bitmap software efficiently. There would be a
stuck-and-won't- move, "insufficient virtual memory" and possibly a serious
error + crash. Anyway, once SP3 was d/ld, the bitmap s/w ground to almost a
halt. I studied the yard or so of SP3 errors encountered by Microsoft and
couldn't find anything, but a rummage around the Web produced a lot of advice
about extra memory [COREL advise this, also]. I figured it would just cause
more problems to up the amount of mem in System, but, it works!
 
How much was the RAM before you added another 1 gig and what type of memory was the
original (SDRAM,DDR etc.)
 
I probably don't have the pressures and complexity that some of you
contributors do, but I'm grateful for SP3 in XP Home& Professional editions.
On my "Home" pc, I never could bump up the mem [depite adding 1000 MB Dimm
stick] to use my Photo/bitmap software efficiently. There would be a
stuck-and-won't- move, "insufficient virtual memory" and possibly a serious
error + crash. Anyway, once SP3 was d/ld, the bitmap s/w ground to almost a
halt. I studied the yard or so of SP3 errors encountered by Microsoft and
couldn't find anything, but a rummage around the Web produced a lot of advice
about extra memory [COREL advise this, also]. I figured it would just cause
more problems to up the amount of mem in System, but, it works!
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Funny thing about some graphics software . . . they DEMAND a
large pagefile. I normally don't use a pagefile at all. I
have a VM set up with Photoshop CS3 v10 on it and I had to
set it so that it was a Windows managed pagefile. When I
tried setting a static size pagefile I would occasionally
get a virtual memory error. I have experienced similar
problems with CorelDraw and Paintshop Pro. Since I don't
have to do graphics work very often consigning those apps to
a VM seemed to be the best way to go.

Sincerely,
C.Joseph Drayton, Ph.D. AS&T

CSD Computer Services

Web site: http://csdcs.site90.net/
E-mail: (e-mail address removed)90.net
 
Sorry, I didn't have the technical understanding to interpret your note - it
is DDR. I followed [MS Help] instructions and created 3 PageFiles in C: to
increase Registry allowance to 4000 MB of memory. It starts in vm as 763 kb.
It works.
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Peter Foldes said:
How much was the RAM before you added another 1 gig and what type of memory was the
original (SDRAM,DDR etc.)

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A-Mac said:
I probably don't have the pressures and complexity that some of you
contributors do, but I'm grateful for SP3 in XP Home & Professional editions.
On my "Home" pc, I never could bump up the mem [depite adding 1000 MB Dimm
stick] to use my Photo/bitmap software efficiently. There would be a
stuck-and-won't- move, "insufficient virtual memory" and possibly a serious
error + crash. Anyway, once SP3 was d/ld, the bitmap s/w ground to almost a
halt. I studied the yard or so of SP3 errors encountered by Microsoft and
couldn't find anything, but a rummage around the Web produced a lot of advice
about extra memory [COREL advise this, also]. I figured it would just cause
more problems to up the amount of mem in System, but, it works!
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
FAO Dr Drayton
Thank you for your interest. I've had to use CorelDraw a lot, recently, and
notice that on my older "Home Edition" computer it just gobbles up resources
[Corel is, inherently, a memory-guzzler: its slideshow s/w in the 90s caused
much embarassment to users - roll on the Microsoft package, PowerPoint];
anyway, I've reduced PhotoPaint problems just to "Unexpected Heap Error" and
not full lock-up when too many Copy/Paste objects were being used. But, no
matter how I do it, Draw outstrips even core mem usage.
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C.Joseph Drayton said:
I probably don't have the pressures and complexity that some of you
contributors do, but I'm grateful for SP3 in XP Home& Professional editions.
On my "Home" pc, I never could bump up the mem [depite adding 1000 MB Dimm
stick] to use my Photo/bitmap software efficiently. There would be a
stuck-and-won't- move, "insufficient virtual memory" and possibly a serious
error + crash. Anyway, once SP3 was d/ld, the bitmap s/w ground to almost a
halt. I studied the yard or so of SP3 errors encountered by Microsoft and
couldn't find anything, but a rummage around the Web produced a lot of advice
about extra memory [COREL advise this, also]. I figured it would just cause
more problems to up the amount of mem in System, but, it works!
Click to expand...

Funny thing about some graphics software . . . they DEMAND a
large pagefile. I normally don't use a pagefile at all. I
have a VM set up with Photoshop CS3 v10 on it and I had to
set it so that it was a Windows managed pagefile. When I
tried setting a static size pagefile I would occasionally
get a virtual memory error. I have experienced similar
problems with CorelDraw and Paintshop Pro. Since I don't
have to do graphics work very often consigning those apps to
a VM seemed to be the best way to go.

Sincerely,
C.Joseph Drayton, Ph.D. AS&T

CSD Computer Services

Web site: http://csdcs.site90.net/
E-mail: (e-mail address removed)90.net
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