Unable to open new window

[Guest hans meier]

Hello!

 

I routinely have several windows and programs open thought out the day and

what I have discovered is that after a while I have to many windows open and

I can't open anymore.

 

What happens after I reach this state is that the right click context won't

open, clicking ctrl alt del does nothing and trying to open any program or

window like IE or notepad does nothing. To fix the problem I have to close a

window or two.

 

Sometimes I might have as few a 6 window/programs open at the time when this

happens. These are the programs I usually have open throughout the day

Outlook, FrontPage, several Internet Explorer windows and notepad. Sometimes

I will open PhotoShop and when I am having the issue the menu windows in

PhotoShop won't load.

 

I am running XP SP2 with 2 GB of ram. The computer never slows down, the

windows just stop opening. What can I do to fix the problem?

 

If I have enough windows open, you get the following scenario: A new

programs seems not to be able to open at all or completely. I.e. they get

"some" window open, some not. I saw it with outlook express, the program

opened, but the menu was not here. Or with the MMC (Event Viewer) the MMC

opened but said it "cannot open an empty window".

 

Anybody an idea what causes this problem?

 

Thanks Hans

[Guest R. McCarty]

Re: Unable to open new window

 

Windows has limits on certain system parameters. Things like GDI

Objects and similar. These are things that don't necessarily depend

on physical RAM. You probably need to use a modified TaskMgr

setup to monitor the usage of these items.Internet Explorer might be

a major contributor especially if you use multiple Tabs within each

IE session.

 

"hans meier" <hans@weih.cjb.net> wrote in message

news:47c6d002$0$21924$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net...

> Hello!

>

> I routinely have several windows and programs open thought out the day and

> what I have discovered is that after a while I have to many windows open

> and I can't open anymore.

>

> What happens after I reach this state is that the right click context

> won't open, clicking ctrl alt del does nothing and trying to open any

> program or window like IE or notepad does nothing. To fix the problem I

> have to close a window or two.

>

> Sometimes I might have as few a 6 window/programs open at the time when

> this happens. These are the programs I usually have open throughout the

> day Outlook, FrontPage, several Internet Explorer windows and notepad.

> Sometimes I will open PhotoShop and when I am having the issue the menu

> windows in PhotoShop won't load.

>

> I am running XP SP2 with 2 GB of ram. The computer never slows down, the

> windows just stop opening. What can I do to fix the problem?

>

> If I have enough windows open, you get the following scenario: A new

> programs seems not to be able to open at all or completely. I.e. they get

> "some" window open, some not. I saw it with outlook express, the program

> opened, but the menu was not here. Or with the MMC (Event Viewer) the MMC

> opened but said it "cannot open an empty window".

>

> Anybody an idea what causes this problem?

>

> Thanks Hans

>

>

>