Dear Ed,

Given the "Error: (7) Out of Memory" message, I'd use regedit to look at the registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\SubSystems

and its subkey Windows

(which is long and will end with ... in the display)

on a computer that fails and see if it differs from the same key on a computer that works.

It should include the phrase "Windows SharedSection=1024,20480,768" somewhere in the middle.

Double-click on the "Windows" subkey and arrow left and right to view it.

If you see lower numbers, you may have found your problem.

If not, you've only wasted a minute or two ruling that out.

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About the middle of this page are detailed directions to find, view. and fix the key:

http://www.windowsanswers.net/articles/fix-error7-manual

Cheers,

Carl Fogel