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Second Instability Problem

Thanks for the response below, but now a second instability issue has cropped up. Now, I'm having issues with diwnloading from all of my financial institution accounts. The screen flickers as I initiate an update, and then I am told that "Quicken is out of memory and cannot complete the task." I reboot, and run Quicken as my only application. Same result. Anyone run into this before? This didn't happen until about 6 months after I first used QP '07. Thanks again!

Reply to
Bill
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When was the last time you did a hard drive clean up, defrag, spyware/av scan? Sometimes this is an indication that your temp folders are full.

Reply to
Laura

L: Great tip. I checked, and it had been a few weeks. Ran them all a couple of times each, just to make sure I'd done what I could. No dice. Quicken is still "out of memory and cannot complete the task." Any other suggestions out there?

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Reply to
Bill

How much physical RAM? How much virtual RAM? How much free hard drive space?

Reply to
Laura

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L: Not sure I know the difference between virtual and physical RAM. However, there's 3.0 GB of RAM installed. There's 146 GB of free hard drive space, about 75% of that drive. B

Reply to
Bill

With 3gig of RAM installed you don't need virtual RAM and you certainly should not get an out of memory error message with 3 gigs of RAM.

Virutal RAM is when your computer uses hard drive space to create more memory. See here for more info:

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Sorry if I was not of any help on your problem. Have you check the Quicken forums here:
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Reply to
Laura

Sometimes error messages are not precise as to their underlying cause. In fact, you could have 1000 times as much memory as this poster has ... and still get a message that a program was "out of memory". It could be caused by a programming bug, or it could be caused by data corruption ... but the message could occur no matter how much memory you have available.

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John Pollard

I meant to say, " ... and still have a program literally run out of memory ...". (And get the message that the program was "out of memory".)

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John Pollard

John and Laura - Thanks for your efforts. I'm back to the drawing board to figure this out. I'll check out the boards you suggest, Laura. Bill

Reply to
Bill

Data corruption was going to be my next guess but I don't know how to fix that problem, do you?

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Laura

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