The area along the bottom of the screen is the "task bar".  The "system
tray" is the bit of it on the far right where the time and the Norton icon
and so on are.
  Yes, it is possible for there to be tasks running which do not show up on
the task bar.  Since you have Norton A-V, I believe the CD-ROM also includes
a free utility called "Process Viewer" that can show you all of the programs
currently running -- you will probably be surprised to find a couple of
dozen background processes.  (Process Viewer can also show you how much
memory each process is using.)

  I'm not certain, but I think Windows ME uses the same error message for
low system "resources" as for "memory".  Resources are special data items
that get loaded into a reserved area of memory.  Since the same resource can
be shared by multiple programs, Windows 95/98/ME relies on every program to
put them away when it's through with them.  Some programs don't do a good
job of this; sometimes programs crash before they clean up after themselves.
 Eventually the resource area can become full of orphaned objects left
behind by processes no longer running.
  The structure and size of the resource areas are hard-wired into the OS.
They can't be made bigger by adding more memory.  As you've found, they can
be cleared out by rebooting.

David Gillett


On 4 Apr 2005 at 18:01, Lewis C Emerson wrote:

> Folks,
>
> On various occasions I get a message that makes absolutely no sense to
> me, but wonder if it's a warning of some kind.  When I try to do
> something - like preparing to run a program I get this:
>       There is not enough memory to run this program.  Quit one or more
> programs and then try again.
> I'm using Windows Me, have 256 Mb RAM memory, with Norton's A-V, SpyBot,
> AdAware, and ZoneAlarm all up and running.  As far as I know, nothing is
> running at the time I get this message - at least nothing is showing
> along the bottom of the screen  (Is this called the System Tray?).
>
> The only way to stop this (temporarily) is to reboot from scratch.  It's
> an aggravation and not a real problem for me, but it does make me wonder
> if it has anything to do with my on-going problem with computer lock-ups.
>
> Can there be something running in the background without any indication
> showing?
>
> Many thanks for suggestions,
>
> Lewis Emerson
>
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