Microsoft KB Archive/65327

“Insufficient Memory” Starting Word from Windows 3.00

PSS ID Number: Q65327 Article last modified on 01-24-1995

5.00

MS-DOS

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The following is a list of possible causes for an “Insufficient Memory” or “Program is too big to fit in memory” message when running Word 5.00 under Windows 3.00 in real or standard mode:

  A Program Information File (PIF) is not being used to start Microsoft Word and the default PIF settings do not reserve enough memory for Word. Create a Word 5.00 .PIF file with the Windows PIF Editor and specify at least 384K in the “KB Required” field. Set the “KB Required” field of the .PIF file to be “-1” if Windows applications are being run at the same time as Word. This option will allow Windows to give Word all available conventional memory.   Other non-Windows applications may also be using conventional memory, leaving an insufficient amount of memory to start Word 5.00. If other non-Windows applications are running, quit the other applications until enough conventional memory is free to run Word. To run other non-Windows applications at the same time as Word, reduce the amount of memory specified in the “KB required” field of each application’s PIF. Windows allocates memory to a non-Windows application when it is first started, and this memory is not freed until the application is terminated. 

The following are additional ways to free up additional memory for Microsoft Word:


 * 1) Make sure that “XMS Memory: KB Required” and “XMS Memory: KB Limit” options in the advanced section of the Word PIF are set to 0 (zero). Word 5.00 does not use extended memory; it uses only expanded memory that meets the Lotus-Intel-Microsoft (LIM) specifications 3.2 or later.
 * 2) Clear or save the contents of the Windows Clipboard.
 * 3) Set the “Desktop Wallpaper” in the Windows Control Panel to “None”.
 * 4) Minimize Windows applications to icons.

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