Hi All
My 5.0.1, 5.0.4 and 5.0.5 installations did not seem to need the JAVA setting as they were working well.
However, I needed to change the motherboard as it had developed a memory controller fault: all installed OS's - including Windows7 - could only see and access 50% of the installed RAM ie in my previous message I posted the output of mem /v but this was with 4 x 2GB sticks of RAM installed and recognised by motherboard BIOS. I also tried memtest which could only test 50% of installed RAM.
Having changed the motherboard( from Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 to Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0 - no driver changes involved, very similar motherboards) and with 4 x 2 GB sticks of RAM installed mem /v now shows
[L:\SYS\BIN]mem /v
Total physical memory: 8,128 MB
Accessible to system: 3,536 MB
Additional (PAE) memory: 4,591 MB
Resident memory: 161 MB
Available virtual memory: 628 MB
Available process memory:
Private low memory: 303 MB
Private high memory: 1,344 MB
Shared low memory: 242 MB
Shared high memory: 1,109 MB
[L:\SYS\BIN]
Sadly that has actually made things worse as I now cannot run Openoffice at all, just get a message that module(s) cannot be loaded. Using the Quickstart results in the same (or very similar) message "Critical error: DosLoadModule failed" with a DLL name, eg fwk.dll, when the Desktop loads.
There had been *no* software changes involved in the motherboard swap.
I have tried adjusting the value of SWAPPATH without any change in the ability to run Openoffice. Adding the JAVA setting does not help.
Other software does not seem to have the problem(s) that Openoffice has.
I may just remove 2 of the RAM sticks to see what happens...
Regards
Pete