memory

Is there anyway to test or find out if the memory is bad?
Everytime I try to open a progam it will start to open
and then just freeze, so I open task manager and it says
it is not responding. Then I have a hard time getting it
to close. I also get the message pretty frequently that I
don't have enough memory, or that I am low on virtual
memory and window is increasing the size of your virtual
memory. My system came with only 128 and I increased it
to 256 as soon as I bought it about 18 months ago. It
started this about a month ago but has gotten real bad
the last week or so. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

"brian" wrote:

Is there anyway to test or find out if the memory is bad?
Everytime I try to open a progam it will start to open
and then just freeze, so I open task manager and it says
it is not responding. Then I have a hard time getting it
to close. I also get the message pretty frequently that I
don't have enough memory, or that I am low on virtual
memory and window is increasing the size of your virtual
memory. My system came with only 128 and I increased it
to 256 as soon as I bought it about 18 months ago. It
started this about a month ago but has gotten real bad
the last week or so. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Free memory testing utilities:

1. DocMemory http://www.simmtester.com

2. Windows Memory Diagnostic http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp


Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."