HELP, my PrE4 crashes as soon as I hit the transition key!

Question

It crashes a couple times a day when I'm editing but this is unreal.  Any ideas to correct this? I'm on an HP d479y windows vista home premium, Intel Core CPU with 6600 @ 2.4 GH2, Ram 4G, System 32b OS, Nvidia GeForce 7500LE.   But believe me I'm a novice about computers and just spent money to have it looked at.

Answer 1

I am just a Windows XP SP3 type person and have never tried the following, but this is how I think it goes for you Vista or higher people, using the BCDedit Tool.
You would click on the Command Prompt under Start/Program/Accessories. (You need to be in a User Account with Administrative Privileges for this to work.)
So, if you have 4 GB RAM installed, you could allocate 3, 2, or 1 GB.
If you wanted to allocate 3 GB, you would type in bcdedit /set IncreaseUserVA 3072
If you wanted to disable that, you would type in bcdedit /deletevalue IncreaseUserVA
If you wanted to allocate 2 GB, you would type in bcdedit /set IncreaseUserVA 2048
If you wanted to allocate 1 GB, you would type in bcdedit /set increaseUserVA 1024
If your system is working fine now, I would leave it alone unless your computer is experiencing memory problems.
It goes without saying that if you have 4 GB, you are not going to allocate 4  GB or if you have 3 GB, you are not going to allocate 3 GB, etc.
There are several technical details on the use of the BCDedit Tool at the Microsoft web site.
Maybe Hunt or one of the other users who has actually done this and can confirm my details or straighten them out.
ATR