SP3

[A-Mac]

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!

 

[Peter Foldes]

How much was the RAM before you added another 1 gig and what type of memory was the
original (SDRAM,DDR etc.)

 

[C.Joseph Drayton]

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!

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

 

[A-Mac]

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.
--
Old_and_forgotten

How much was the RAM before you added another 1 gig and what type of memory was the
original (SDRAM,DDR etc.)

--
Peter

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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!

 

[A-Mac]

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.
--
Old_and_forgotten

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!

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