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Insufficient Resources
Name: sky42 Date: April 22, 2008 at 11:56:04 Pacific OS: WinXP Pro CPU/Ram: 2.2ghz/128mb Product: Dell
Comment:
When I try to load XXX antivirus the install gets about 80% thru and then it terminates with the message: "Insufficient system resources to install selected service". I have 30GB available on the HDD. The windows task mamager shows the following: 25 processes; PF usage 221MB; Commit Charge 221M/1138M. So where is the insufficiency? Could memory be the bad apple? Thanx?
Name: rrlyon Date: April 22, 2008 at 12:19:46 Pacific
Reply:
Not that it is bad, but the fact that you have only 128MB is a problem. XP will run with the amount you have but not well. Newer AV applications are memory hogs and current usage suggests 512MB minimum, I recommend having 1GB if you plan on opening more than 1 or 2 programs at once. If you checked processes in Task Manager you would see a number of them running in the background that XP needs to run.
Richard
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Response Number 2
Name: sky42 Date: April 23, 2008 at 04:29:05 Pacific
Reply:
rrlyon - thanx, I'll try kicking memory up a few notches!
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Response Number 3
Name: sky42 Date: April 27, 2008 at 09:05:54 Pacific
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