Win 16 subsystem has insufficient resources to continue running.

[wsjames]

Customer is running FP2.6 app. Was running fine till roughly 07-15-2009. Where upon they began to experience the error, 'Win 16 subsystem has insufficient resources to continue running. Click OK to close your applications and restart your machine.'

Customer running XP, plenty of memory on PCs [2-4M] We suspect recent [virus scan] download. Any inputs greatly appreciated.

 

[JRB-Bldr]

Just a guess here...

How large a data table are you working with?

The times that I have encountered that error message, I was either working with a LARGE table and/or I was doing operations that required LOTS of memory.

This problem was exacerbated if I happened to be concurrently running other "Memory Hog" applications such as Excel, etc.

Good Luck,
JRB-Bldr

 

[wsjames]

All tables are in the sub-Meg range. Maxium of 3000 records per table. All tables are purged and packed weekly. Nothing app wise has changed. App has been in use since 1993.

 

[cricket]

So what hardware change, or operating system change did you make around 07-15-2009?

 

[vinitsky]

You are out of luck. Windows XP changed the way the dos subsystem handled GDI handles, you can read about it at

http://www.qwr391.home.ro/wow32.htm

 

[wsjames]

Thank you.