win16 subsystem has insufficient resources

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You answered your own question.

Reboot.

Whatever 16-bit application that you have running needs for your machine to
reboot.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:06905989-93D2-408F-85E2-99DA7CC0BDF3@microsoft.com,
Brande <Brande@btopenworld.com> hunted and pecked:
> After I have had the computer on a bit, this error message comes up ....
> 'The win 16 subsysten has insufficient resources to continue running.
> Click OK, close application and restart'
> Then one of my programs, either perfect works or Print artist just closes
> and I have to stop everything and restart the computer to get it back on.
> All the other programs are still running and I can keep working for days
> with out these programs, but when I want to use them I have to restart
> the computer all over again. They will then work for a bit again and then
> it starts all over again.
> I have tried looking on the computer, but there seems to be no reference
> to this win 16 subsystem in the computer at all. I have not done anything
> recently to the computer, I have not loaded anything or altered anything
> anywhere. The only things that have been going on to the computer are the
> regular windows updates that come in every now and then.
> Any suiggestions???

It's all very well to say that its a program which is causing this problem but I have three computers running XP and one of them has done this ever since I loaded them all up together with the same stuff when I bought them and the other does'nt.

I suspect that my stoneage old office suite is a possible cause but why only on one computer.

As a precautio I've set the auto backup to operate often but it's not really the answer.

I guess it's just another case of IBM (I blame Microsoft)

Nick