Re: XYWRITE digest 2821

["William E. Shawcross" wshawcross@xxxxxxxx]

XYWRITE: Xywrite Word Processor for Dos & Windows wrote:

			  XYWRITE Digest 2821


Subject:
Re: XYWRITE digest 2820
From:
"Patricia M. Godfrey" 
Date:
Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:12:25 -0500
To:
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To:
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William E. Shawcross wrote:
Said friend reminds me that there is one thing he had to do which
apparently changed things. In testing I had noticed that if I tried
to copy a file (or even a single word) to LPT1 from the command line,
I would get a message to the effect that there was insufficient
server memory to execute the command. My friend snooped around the
MS knowledge base and found a fix: using regedit, increase some
buffer from 11 to 25.

Huh! That's almost incredible. But then this trick only works with W2k
or XP. And both of them need a LOT more RAM than MicroSludge tells
you. (I see PCs--mostly laptops--offered for sale with XP on them in
256 Mb. Idiocy.) If total RAM was low, the installation might set that
buffer, whatever it is, too low.

Yes, please, ask him what setting that was. Every bit of information
helps.


I don't think RAM has anything to do with it (my computer has 1.2 GB of
the stuff), but the following discussion deals with the problem that
produces the "insuffient memory" message:


http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.word.application.errors/browse_thread/thread/89e2a56d833f3cbe/a1cdb381efeadf8d%23a1cdb381efeadf8d
In looking back in my registry, I see my friend set IRPStackSize to 25
(decimal); it was 11 before the change. In case the URL above doesn't
work for you, here is the relevant part of the message:


1. Start the registry editor (e.g., regedit.exe).
 2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services
\lanmanserver\parameters.
 3. Double-click IRPStackSize (or if this registry setting doesn't
exist, create it of type DWORD and ensure the case is correct).
 4. Change the base to decimal, set the value to 11 for Win2K or NT
or 15 for XP, and click OK.
 5. Reboot the computer."

Also from MS:

"In Windows 2000, the default value of IRPStackSize is 15, and the
range is from 11 to 50. In Windows XP, the default value for
IRPStackSize is 15, and the range is from 11 to 50. In the Value Data
box, type a value that is larger than the value that is listed. If you
created the IRPStackSize value using the procedure described in step
4, the default value is 15. It is recommended that you incrase the
value by 3. Therefore, if the previous value was 11, type 14 , and
then click OK."

Oddly enough, Vista gave me the same "insufficient memory" message when
I tried to map a network drive, so once that machine is restored to
operation I'll have to chase that down.