Techgripe

[jodawi]

Win XP has a limit of 12,000 GDI objects system-wide. (Allegedly the limit is 65,536, but in practice my machine likes to crap out at 12,000.) It was theoretically worse under Win98, but if that is so, why did they only improve it slightly? Half my resources are used up as soon as I start up, and a single web page can use hundreds. I have a gigabyte of RAM, and have to keep quitting programs so that other ones can run even tho I'm usually only using half of my memory. Someone should outlaw 16-bit values.

Comments

[msboop.livejournal.com]

I like XP, but also get a lot of memory errors... constantly having to restart the computer just to print something because XP has decided that I haven't been using the printer so it's ok to shut down the vital parts of it. That's what I get for having a lexmark.