Windows Err Msg: Insufficient Memory to Run App (with HELP)

• Microsoft Windows operating system versions 3.0, 3.0a

SYMPTOMS

The following error message is displayed when you select one of the options under Help from any Windows 3.0 application:

   Insufficient memory to run application; close one or more
   applications to increase available memory and try again

CAUSE

The Microsoft Windows 3.0 Help engine file "WINHELP.EXE" may still be in the compressed format from the Windows disks. You can verify if the WINHELP.EXE file is compressed by looking at the file size. If the file size is 100335 bytes, then it is compressed.

RESOLUTION

You need to use the EXPAND.EXE utility to decompress the WINHELP.EXE file.. EXPAND.EXE is located on the Windows 3.0 disk 2 for all three disk formats. For information on how to use the EXPAND.EXE utility, from the MS-DOS command prompt, type "expand" (without the quotation marks) and press ENTER.

MORE INFORMATION

The file information for WINHELP.EXE is listed below:

                                     COMPRESSED   DECOMPRESSED
   FORMAT            LOCATION        FILE SIZE    FILE SIZE
   ------            --------        ----------   ------------

   5.25-inch 1.2M    Disk 1          100335       193552
   3.5-inch 720K     Disk 1          (same)       (same)
   5.25-inch 360K    Disk 3          (same)       (same)

• The caption bar of this error message is titled "WINHELP".
• An MS-DOS icon labeled "WINHELP" is listed among the currently running applications, if any.