I was setting up my business account statements, when I was told I was out of memory. what happened?

Question

this was done on microsoft works. i'm so lost.i need detailed help to solve the problem as i am computer illiterate. someone help!

Answer 1

Just to add to SP's comments. You have too many files on your hard drive. You need to delete the files that you no longer use. If you do not want to delete them, move them to a flash drive, CD or floppy disk. Keep deleting unused files until the program works. Then do what SP's has suggested about defrag, etc. Another item, do not use Microsoft Works the program is not very good and is VERY limited. Use Excel. Try using Excel before you delete any files, see what happens. You may have to buy Excel, but it is worth it and much better than Works. Buy the student edition of Microsoft Office. It has Excel, Word, etc. everything you will ever need. Also for your business consider buying Quickbooks. It will give you better accounting structure than using a spreadsheet.

Answer 2

Go into your start menu...look under your all programs menu that pops up and shows all your software loaded....click on start up and then accessories, look for system tools, click on disk cleanup and it will pop up a box that you can check what files you want to clean up...click that and let it run....towards the end of the day..you want to go back there again and instead of clicking on disk cleanup you want disk defrag...this will clean up the computer some...and give you more room.....Not enough memory is saying you have too many files, you may need to seek some help in doing a back up to a cd, or cleaning out any pictures, or files that are not needed anymore enabling you to free up some more space.   Good Luck!!