InDesign Crashes in Windows 7

I recently bought a new laptop with 8 gigs of RAM, more than enough to run the entire Adobe suite at the same time. I did a custom installation for only the software I needed. For some reason, everytime I use InDesign for a few hours, it crashes and tells me there is not sufficient memory to continue running this program. This is usually the only piece of software I have running. I've done virus scans and nothing comes up. I've even changed setttings on my computer to minimize RAM allocations to anything else that is unecessary. I re-installed all of the suite in hopes that it will correct the error. Nothing seems to work. It's becoming a real pain every day. I know someone else posted on this but seems like they were running windows from a Mac with the font management problem. This is brand new computer, out of the box. Does anyone have any possible solutions?

The wiseguy answer is to not go out for tea. But I won't offer that as a solution.
I don't know what you mean by you “tried allocating more virtual memory but currently we reverted to Windows managed.” Can I assume that what you mean is that you manually allocated disk space for a paging file and then decided to let the system automatically allocate same? The paging file size doesn't really affect your ability to allocate virtual memory unless you allocate a paging file size that is fairly small, in your configuration, that would be < 8GB. If you let the system manage the paging file, it will increase or decrease the size of the paging file per the needs of the system, depending upon what applications are running at the time and the amount of address space they need. Obviously, if you are running of disk space, that could cause the system management of the paging file to fail.
In any case, the paging file size doesn't directly limit the amount of virtual memory available to each application. It is a fixed amount of memory that is available to each application. In terms of InDesign's address space, it isn't just the size of the InDesign file, but more importantly, what type of complex graphics are linked into same. A full page 300dpi color image takes a good amount of memory and it only gets worse as you have more and more pages with such graphics. I would see whether closing the book panel mitigates this issue.
Again what bothers me is the system instability you have after InDesign quits until you reboot. The fact that you suddenly got an error message associated with InDesign while you not actively doing anything (i.e., you are actually away from the keyboard at tea) also bothers me. This points to some problem beyond just InDesign and your data.
Another person responding to you suggested a possible heat / fan issue. You should check on whether in fact you do have such a issue given that the problem manifests itself later in the day. I'd also have the system's memory checked out thoroughly.
- Dov

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