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Thanks, Greg.
Have printed these replies out, and passed onto The Boss.

Have plenty of Hard Drive space, it's 80Gb, but can't remember if it's 256 or 512 RAM.

However the info will give her something to work on.

many thanks...

Thanks prompt reply, Chrispy.

Don't think the Hard Drive is near limit, it's 80 Gig, though does have a lot of images on it. Wife has been preparing a few slideshows recently, and cataloging?? many of family photos.

Understand what you mean about about overloading the h/d, friends 'puter froze up, and had to go back to IT dept, for repairs.

How's the Jeep going? Often thought they would be a lively alternative to our current L/C turbo, when we need a smaller vehicle.

Thanks again...

Hooroo...

Bob -

Image manipulation programs such as Photoshop on Corel do require a lot of memory to run in - especially if you editing large image files. As suggested, I'd look at the virtual memory settings and up the disk allocation to virtual memory useage a tad or two.

In regards to the Jeep, I've had an absolute ball in it now for 55,000kms. Contary to popular belief, I've had very few issues if any with its reliability. I mainly do freeway and dirt-road driving (touring) to our place in Cooma and back to Sydney. I also use it on trail runs with our club - the Sydney Jeep Club - and it has proven quite capable givin that it is in nearly stock form. I run slightly oversize Cooper ST's and a full OME suspension setup which gets me into quite a few places - and some that even our lifted Patrol and other's 'Cruisers would think twice about in stock form. The engine (Merc 2.7 common rail) is an absolute cracker. Almost car performance (120kw and 400mn) without the fuel bill. I average 8.0-8.5L/100km on the freeways, 9.5 around town and around 10.5 on rough tracks in low range. The Merc 5-speed auto gearbox is just beautiful - liquid smooth and you can't tell its changed gears sometimes.

I tow a fair bit with it (our 19-foot caravan and a 800kg horse float with a 600kg+ horse) and it just pulls away without fuss. I can still stay at 100kmh on the highways on cruise control and it never dips below the speed set. Pretty admirable really.

It's a little smaller (!!) than our GQ and your 'Cruiser - but it does us just fine for country trips. We also have an offroad trailer for when we want to pack more stuff.

I like it.

Cheers
Chris

These utilities do nothing useful in XP. XP will always use virtual memory, no matter how much free RAM it has. Contrary to popular misconceptions, it doesn't just page things to the hard drive when it runs out of RAM.
And the error message "low on virtual memory" is nothing to worry about. All it means is that there's so much running concurrently that the pagefile size needs to be increased. No big deal that, it's done automatically and XP is just letting you know what it's doing.