brian747

I have no idea whether this problem will affect anyone but me, but, just in case it does, I will describe it here.I have just attempted to install the latest Nvidia drivers for my 8800 GTS: until today I have tried to keep reasonably up to date. Part-way through the installation I received a message from Windows XP: "Windows - Low on Registry Space" and "The system has reached the maximum size allowed for the system part of the registry. Additional storage requests will be ignored".Ouch!An Internet search revealed that (a) users of Nvidia drivers are especially apt to experience this error, and (:( that "When using /3GB the system hive is limited to 12MB, otherwise it is limited to 25% of installed RAM or 200MB, whichever is less."Ouch again!Rather than face the severe pain of a Windows repair reinstall, and on the basis that the problem did not exist prior to my attempted installation of the latest Nvidia drivers, I used the following workaround (which worked for me, but no guarantees, obviously...)Uninstall Nvidia drivers from Control Panel - rebootDefrag registry - rebootRemove /3Gb switch from boot.ini - rebootInstall Nvidia latest drivers - rebootDegrag registry again - rebootAdd /3Gb switch - reboot(To defrag the registry I used NTREGOPT, downloaded from http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/)After the sixth and final reboot, the system came up successfully, and all seems well: I am flying my MD-11 again. However, I may wait for a very long while before attempting another update of my Nvidia drivers.....Best wishes to everyone,Brian

Hi Ryan!Yes indeed: found it. printed it, love it. Having flown nothing but 744s for over ten years now (I still have Robert's original "747-400 PS1 User's Guide" on my shelf - probably a first edition ;-) ) I would go so far as to say that the section for Boeing pilots is indispensable for anyone in my position who wants to avoid the worst gotchas