One item that I found does help some is to enter the line; minSPs=12 ;under the [386Enh] section of System.ini. You can get to this by going to Start, Run and entering Sysedit and pressing Return. This will bring up a number of windows. Select the system.ini window and right at the top should be the [386Enh] section. Go to the end of one of the lines, press return to open an empty line and add the line: minSPs=12 When you close, it will ask if you want to save. Answer yes and then reboot. This should help some with memory management. I keep 3 databases open most of the time. I was adding a number of photos last week and had the *white-out* only once. (Not sure what else I had running, but there is usually several other things in the background as well.). Keith Thompson The Petersons wrote: > > I have 128MB Ram. I ran into this problem several months ago. This mailing list has helped resolve the majority of the problem as it relates to memory. Through time, and although I have no infallible proof, it is clear and peaceful in my mind that I have this problem only when I have four or more FO databases open and I am trying to edit one of them and even then it may or may not occur. If I have one database open and am editing and I have word open, paintshop open, my email software open, my browser open, etc or all of them, it does not matter, I just don't have the problem. Although it is very convenient when I open FO to have all my databases opened; I've learned that when I plan on doing a lot of editing, I get down to the basic number of databases. Sincerely, Mike Peterson > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Wayne League > To: FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 7:32 AM > Subject: Re: [FO] Advice needed please! > > "Nori Witter" <nori@eisa.net.au> wrote: > > >My problem is that everything turns to grey and then I loose all ability to > >access and the only way to solve this is to close down and re-open. > > This sounds sort of like the problem some are having with the tool bar > buttons disappearing and then the computer hangs up. It is thought to > be a memory management problem. Some computers that even have 128mb > or more of RAM have the problem. Windows is a very poor memory > manager and that is believed to be the problem. > You might try running as few programs at the same time as possible. > Also, check the task bar tray and see if you have an unusually large > amount of things running all the time there. It would be best to get > rid of as many of those as you can do without. > > There are RAM memory restoring programs that will restore the memory > that has been lost during a computer session that might help the > problem. One is called "RamBooster" and you can get it at > http://www.saunalahti.fi/~borg/rambooster/ > It may or may not help your problem but it won't hurt to try it > because it is free. > > Wayne League > > ______________________________ > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > PLEASE remove as much of the Original Message as possible when replying to a List Posting. Include only that part of the original message important to your reply. > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp -- Keith Thompson, Worthington, OH Home Web Page: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~kthompson/ Genealogy Web Page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kthompson I Didn't Climb to the Top of the Food Chain to Be a Vegetarian