Thanks Richard, I didn't know there was an XP forum. I joined this one
because one of my computers has Vista and most of the help I have needed
lately has been for that computer... From reading the posts here I see there
are a lot of comparisons between XP and Vista so I thought raising the
question here would be okay. I'll check out the other forum and see...
Sandy
"God is my backup."
"Richard G. Harper" wrote:
> Probably the first thing to do would be to wander over to a Windows XP
> newsgroup for assistance. Here in this newsgroup we support Vista, where
> things tend to be just a bit different from XP.
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> "The Sand" <TheSand@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3D8E97A2-373A-4095-B7A7-FC7C2E7D36A2@microsoft.com...
> > My XP when sutting down says something like, "Memory could not be written
> > (numbers)...memory could not be read (numbers) click cancel to debug the
> > program or exit to close the program." I could give you the exact numbers
> > but the numbers change. And sometimes there is more than one error
> > message -
> > but always during shut down - no other time. I've been working on getting
> > rid of this error message for about 3 weeks now. I've worked with my OEM
> > at
> > length (via email.) They had my go in and change my virtual memory
> > setting.
> > I changed it to "system managed size." They had me download some things
> > to
> > "fix it" from their website but none of this worked. I myself restored
> > from
> > Acronis to a earlier date when there was no error message and things
> > seemed
> > okay... for awhile, then it showed up again. I checked to make sure I had
> > ALL Microsoft updates. I have Microsoft 2003 Office - but only that
> > partial
> > program. I never did buy it - but I never deleted it either. I always
> > received updates for that program fine until about 3 months ago when the
> > updates started failing. I thought that might be the problem so I
> > uninstalled it yesterday and things appeared okay - again for awhile, but
> > last night it was back again. My OEM wants me to restore to default
> > which I
> > don't want to do because that will be a lot of work... and I did that
> > restore
> > from Acronis (a restore when there was NO error message) and if it came
> > back
> > that time - I believe it will come back again using the HP restore. I'm
> > out
> > of places to look for an answer now and wanted to see if anybody had any
> > ideas. Please remember I'm not a "techie" so if it is too advanced I
> > won't
> > understand you. My next choice will be either having someone come to my
> > house (I've used the "yellow pages" for computer tech assistance and
> > regretted it) or taking it to the Geek Squad at Best Buy (I've regretted
> > that
> > too.) Hoping someone can help....
>
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