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Windows: "Out of Memory or System Resources..."

From Support Wiki

This means you have too many applications open at once.

  • Save what you’re working on then close 1 or 2 applications.
  • You can view your memory usage by holding down the Ctrl + Alt + delete key at the same time.
  • Then press the Task Manager button.
  • At the bottom of the dialog box you will see CPU Usage:

If you see 85% to 100% that means your computer has ran out of memory to run all the applications you have open.

Solution: Install more memory on your machine.

Suggestion: increase 512MB to a 2GB.


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