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From: "Paul E. Lawrence" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] File size
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 17:11:36 -0600
In-Reply-To: <008201c2883d$5a22ae00$51e4f718@tvc.chartermi.net>


What I think you are running into is a limitation of Win98. Resources under
Win98 also refers to GUI (Graphic User Inteface). It does not necessarily
mean that you are running out of memory. Every icon you have on your
desktop, every program launched at startup by Win98, every program you have
open, take up resources. When you search the internet from within tmg5 it
is opening up an instance of your browser for every site it's searching,
about five. You can limit the search by going to the tabs on the Search
window and unchecking search this site which might help. But in summary,
you are probably restricted by the capabilities of Win98. Win XP, Win 2000,
and Windows NT are much better handling resources and you don't run into
those problems.

At 05:14 PM 11/9/2002 -0500, Kathy Tabb wrote:
>I was browsing around the various buttons with the Sample file
>and clicked the button to explore the Internet. Whoa. I mean a
>whole bunch of minimized windows appeared on the taskbar (maybe a
>dozen) (am using Win 98 on a 450 pentium with 512k ram). I waited
>and waited for something to open when I get this message from
>Windows Guardian saying my resources were way too low. I had
>nothing else running and had just done a clean boot. This has
>never happened before. So I rebooted and tried it again only to
>get the blue screen of death when trying to open TMG5.4. So
>after seeing the discrepancy in the file size, I re-downloaded
>straight from the site. Still get a file size of 6731kb. But I
>was able to open TMG. I then went into my family file and tried
>to check the internet and was back to square one again with the
>memory messages. I did notice in Explorer that the install file
>is in both a folder called The Master Genealogist in the Program
>Folder AND in one called TMG5 in the a folder under C:. Is this
>right? They are both dated 11/9/02.

XXENDSXX

Paul E. Lawrence


My Lawrence Genealogy web page has moved to the following URL:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lawrpaul/index.htm

Includes allied surnames of Bumpass, Byerly, Daughtrey, Ford (Faure),
Harper, Harr, Wilhite/Wilhoit. Also researching Burnett, Daniel, McMurry,
Hardy, Hill, Bondurant, Stansbury, Towne, Kincaid, and Rose, and others.

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