Fatal Exception Error, Low Memory, Operation Failed...?

Question

I get it all - multiple times per day. Not in any particular program, but in all of them...Excel, Word, Outlook, Internet Browser, Adobe Illustrator - all of them.

Blue screen messages about fatal exception errors. The message says to hit any key and all will be well. (: But when I do, nothing happens. Stays there. I try CTRl/ALT/DEL - unable to open task manager to end task or shut down. Have to do a hard shut down and restart PC. This will happen 3-4 times a day.

Then, there are little windows that pop up telling me I don't have the system resources or memory is too low to do certain things. Like when I try to open another window, print or save a file.

As if this isn't miserable enough, I will be working in a program and the dreaded gray window pops up telling me the operation failed and must be shut down. Happens until I restart my PC.

I'm at a loss - no idea what's going on. Any suggestions??

THANKS for anything - I'm pulling my hair out over her!! (

Answer 1

Buy a new computer! There are several possible problems, anything from a bad RAM chip to failing hard drive to a corruption in the Windows operating system. Any competent computer shop could diagnose those for you. Before you haul it off, though, I would try these three things:
1. Make sure you have enough free space on your hard drive. If it's less than 10%, delete junk or get a bigger drive.
2. Run a good antivirus and antispyware scan to be sure you don't have some malware crashing your system. AVG is a pretty good, free antivirus and Ad-aware is pretty good, free antispyware.
3. Right-click "my computer", then click properties. Click the "advanced" tab, then the performance settings. From there, click the advanced tab. In the virtual memory section, click change. The maximum paging file size should be at least twice the size of your RAM. I have 512Mb of RAM, with virtual memory settings of 768Mb initial size, and 1536 maximum. Whatever your virtual memory is now, double it. See if that solves your problem. If so, it was just a bad Windows setting. If you still have problems, I'd suspect a hardware failure (probably a failing hard drive). Take it to a trusted shop, and fix the problem.

Answer 2

You got problems. Give us the info on your machine? How fast it is, how much available space you have on your hard drive, how much memory in the computer.

It sounds like you are running on empty, you need more memory.

If you are doing a hard power down 3 or 4 times a day, make a backup of all of your data and rebuild the machine from scratch. You probably have many corrupt files.

Answer 3

Did you try besides up in risk-free mode? Press F8 as quickly as you turn the pc on and save pressing it until eventually you the two come to as scren with the alternative or it truly is going to pass right this moment into it , you will comprehend. in case you get in run a secret agent test first. then disable gadget restoration reboot and enable gadget restoration. If that would not artwork pass to the Microsoft take a seat and difficulty shoot and take a inspect to locate the blunders code.

Answer 4

sounds like a program is suffering from severe memory leakage, could be firefox with a dodgy extension/add on, best thing to do is cntrl/alt/del at the start of ur session, click on processes and keep an eye on memory usage, might be a java related program like azureus which sucks up memory like a kid on milkshake, if u use bittorrent then use something like utorrent, i had azureus sucking up about 250megs of memory easily on my machine....

just had a thought, PAGE FILE size, check out to make sure you have your page file set at optimum settings!! you might have accidently stopped ur page file which will result in the errors you stated!! any probs send me a message..good luck

Answer 5

sounds like a bunch of viruses try system restore go into control panel hit perfomance and maintance and it should be in there for some windows operating systems. if not do a complete restore delete everything and re do the entire operating system

Answer 6

sounds like a trojan-get a firewall for your computer