>Surprisingly the system reports "not enough memory to run
>word" when I try to run any office application.>>


Go into Control Panel/System/Advanced/Performance/Settings/Advanced/Virtual 
Memory (I'm reading XP--might be slightly different for W98). Anyway, you 
are looking for Advanced Virtual Memory Settings.

Try unticking "Let Windows choose..." and set virtual memory manually to, 
say, 128 or maybe 256 Mb.  OK your way out, reboot, check the same window 
to ensure that the new setting has stuck. Now see what happens when you 
open Office.

The usual rule of thumb is to set virtual memory at twice RAM as a starting 
point.

It's one of those error messages that doesn't really mean what it 
says.  Although you may have plenty of RAM, some programs seem to want to 
write to virtual memory regardless. If this is limited or constrained by 
Windows management or lack of disk space, you could get that error message.

The other possibility is that you have too many progs running at startup 
which might be consuming too much memory.

To check this, run Msconfig, unplug your phone line if you are on 
broadband, and untick everything including a-v and firewall.

Reboot and see if Office now runs OK.  If so, suspect one or more of your 
startup progs. Especially anything like Nortons, which is notoriously 
demanding.

Don Penlington


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