Error: "There is not enough free memory to run this program"

Hi, there. I've been having issues that align with the ones Metallicart had listed (i.e. no sound, error message stating "there is not enough free memory to run this program"), but I can open explorer. However, I can't open "My Computer", "Control Panel", "My Documents", "Recycle Bin" and who knows what else. When I try to, I get that error message.

I recently installed subinacl to get flash to install. And that's the only thing I can think of that could have caused the issue. I had no problems before I installed that.

I'm working on a newer Dell with 4GB of memory, 32 bit, Windows 7 Professional.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thank you.

It says that there's not enough storage to complete the system restore... I know I have plenty of storage. I also can't uninstall it because it's not saved to my desktop, and I can't access my control panel. I'll shoot him a message.

Not to sound redundant, but I cannot access Control Panel. It gives me the error message when I try. So I simply search for "system recovery" and went that route. Thank you for your help, by the way.

i have same problem and try to restore but don't work.

what i do next? don't want to new install. a lot of progream to setup.

I was having the same problem as you. I found your solution to make sure that "All Users" was activated in the Registry, and BINGO! -- my system is working perfectly again!! Thanks so much,

Jimmyb

metallicart said:

i'd feel stupid if i wasn't so happy it's working again : D

i checked and reapplied several times: System, Administrator and my user account all had access to CLASSES_ROOT and it still wouldn't work...

now i tried something i considered silly and of course grasping at straws - i reset the accessibility for "Benutzer" (german for Users) to full as well - i thought, as i'm the only user IN here, i would have taken care of all the user accounts that mattered - apparently not >.< : D

and THIS resolved all the problems - as weird as it seems (to me that is)
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so if you experience problems like
-No Sound (device not even recognized)
-Windows Explorer won't work correctly
-you get the error "There is not enough free memory to run this program" when that clearly isn't the case
-You can't log on to MSN

it is likely you have a security conflict in your registry - that much i knew
but the solution seems quite simple after all:

Make sure that System and Users (and just to make sure maybe Administrators and your account name too) have more or less unrestricted access to the registry hive "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\"

to obtain that, you could try and make yourself the owner of that branch first, say okay, and in a seperate step, set the permissions after you're the owner.

but chances are you get loads of "access denied" errors and the whole thing aborts (classical windows -.-)
then, and only then, for Windows 7 32bit i recommend SetACL Command Line-Version (SetACL.exe) – Syntax and Description | Helge Klein | Home of SetACL (NOT subinacl - that made everything worse for me)...
(if you're not sure how to configure, you can ask them, as of february 23rd 2011, they're active and replying to questions, or just ask me)

...can i mark this as solved somehow?

I realize this thread is over a year old but I wanted to give this person credit where credit is due. I spent 6 horrible hours trying to fix my PC. Nothing I tried worked. Some solutions I tried gave me partial access. For example turning on the invisible admin account in command prompt safe mode worked, but nothing else worked in that configuration.

I tried registry cleaners, virus scanners, and anything else I could find to help me with my problem and nothing worked. It was indeed a security permissions problem with "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\". I caused this error myself trying to get rid of the MS Office infinite configuration error and I followed the steps from one of their "techs". Bad move let me tell you.

The solution called for applying security permissions to that registry folder so of course I did it for myself as an administrator thinking the same thing you did, that this would work and it didn't. Once I added all users to the security permissions my computer was once again functioning like before.

Thank you so much for figuring this out you are my hero! I am using Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.