registrysizelimit

[robbo43]

If you're getting an error messge regarding registry system area limit being exceded, try the following:

Edit your boot.ini file in the root of C:\

If it contains /3G in a line in the [operating systems] section, remove it!

I had this problem & I had made three changes at virtually the same time:

1. Added the /3G switch because I upgraded to 4Gb of RAM

2. Installed SP3 (build 3264)

3. Installed the latest hotfix (not included in SP3)

Because I didn't suspect change 1, I tried virtually every registry repair & compression tool available, & after many hours of searching on the internet, & looking at posts relating to RegistrySizeLimit and related registry entries, I found an obscure post which told me that the /3G switch moves memory from the system to the user area; removing the switch from boot.ini & rebooting solved the problem immediately.

 

[linney]

This mentions something similar about the /3G switch.

292726 - Registry Size Limit Has Been Removed From Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;292726&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

 

[robbo43]

Thanks, linney, for your reply; I've checked out the link you provide, but, whilst it mentions the /3G switch, it says it only applies to Window Server 2003. In all my searching, I've found only one very obscure and oblique reference to this behaviour in XP; unfortunately I can't remember where it was.