Guest R. McCarty Posted October 23, 2008 Posted October 23, 2008 Re: Disk full error Never mind the RAM count, I re-read the OP. Even at 3.2 Ghz a Celeron is severely limited doing the work you indicate. "R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:... > How much physical RAM does the machine have installed ? With > all the files opened in Word have you checked TaskMgr for items > like Memory Usage, Handles and I/O counts ? Process to check is > WinWord.Exe. > > Also a key piece of data would be which version of Microsoft > Word is being used. > > Has the machine in question had it's Temp folders cleaned ? > > "Carl Gross" <CarlGross@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:F8724EFF-BD6F-4E72-8DF4-F85762EC6852@microsoft.com... >> Each o fhtese have to do with freeing up disk space by saving them to >> different drives or deleting files. The main drive that she is working >> from >> has 22GB free. The open files are not THAT big. >> >> "Terry R." wrote: >> >>> The date and time was 10/23/2008 11:04 AM, and on a whim, Carl Gross >>> pounded out on the keyboard: >>> >>> > someone in my office has Windows XP SP2, 3.2Ghz Celeron Processor with >>> > 1GB >>> > memory. She has a 35GB C drive partition, 22GB of which is free. >>> > >>> > When she has multiple MS Word documents open (in this case she had 3 >>> > big >>> > ones open) the message "Disk Full" pops up. What would cause this? >>> >>> Hi Carl, >>> >>> Found a few KB articles that might help: >>> >>> "You receive a 'The disk is full trying to write to drive' error message >>> when you try to save, open, or close a document in Word 2000" >>> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=224031 >>> >>> "You receive a 'The disk is full or too many files are open' error >>> message when you save a document in Word 2000" >>> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=224041 >>> >>> "You receive a 'The disk is full. Free some space on this drive, or save >>> the document on another drive' error message when you try to save a file >>> in Word 2000" >>> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=224059 >>> >>> -- >>> Terry R. >>> >>> ***Reply Note*** >>> Anti-spam measures are included in my email address. >>> Delete NOSPAM from the email address after clicking Reply. >>> > >
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