It's Virtual Memory ...
You're probably getting annoyed with all the e-mails I'm sending you -- not in the slightest -- but I just thought of another error that I've received /many/ times.
My system (windows 98) will start acting screwed up, and when I try to run a program or do anything else useful, it will pop up with a window that says something like:
Not enough memory to perform the desired operation
That might be a direct quote, I don't know. But I do know that it says 'memory'. The point is, after battling this many times I finally went to a dos prompt (am I the only one who still uses dos to figure out what's wrong with windows?) and did a basic dir command. Sure enough, there were 0 bytes free on the designated swap disk drive. But it said 'not enough memory', not 'not enough memory and/or hard drive space'.
Are the Microsoft programmers really so ignorant that they don't know the difference between memory and hard drive space?
Submitted by: Jared Hoag
The problem, of course, is that the programmers at Microsoft think of the swap file as "virtual memory". Of course, that's still no excuse for an utter inability to communicate with the user in an intelligent and intelligible fashion ...