What do"System Resources" consist of?

Hello All:

I have a Compaq Presario with A 3500+ AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2 gigabytes of RAM and an ATI Radeon Xpress200 Integrated Graphics processor. Every once in a while when I click on a program and have something running, I will get a message that says "Not Enough System Resources Are Available to Process This Command ". I assumed that system resources were mostly the RAM installed on your computer. Am I wrong? I mostly get this message when trying to use Ashampoo DVD creation software.

Any suggestions? I would appreciate any explanations that may be offered.

Thank you,
mickey918

 

I think it mainly relates to the system memory (RAM), but may also relate to caching systems on the hard disk drive.

You may be able to follow what's happening by looking in Task Manager -> Performance. You will need to close some programs and watch what happens.

If Available Memory keeps falling, read at the MS KB about "memory leaks ":
http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=1

Check the System Requirements of programs you are using, especially in relation to RAM and disk space (it may require large "scratch pad" type cache files, an example is a burning program that needs to make a temporary file before writing to disk).

Matt

 

Hi mickey918, here's an article which may help:http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question466.htm
Neil.