XP : "not enough storage to process this command" crashes

[dom993]

Hello,

I have had repeated (about every 12h) crashes of my primary desktop, my business application (Ensign Windows) complaining "not enough storage to process this command", and usually Skype complaining the same thing. Windows desktop becomes unable to do much, including unable to open new apps and even unable to properly shutdown. This started a couple weeks ago, and I have also seen the same type of crash twice in that timeframe on my secondary PC.

Note: both XP SP3 current

I have been uninstalling a number of things so far, without success. But in the process, I have noticed 2 very strange things using the Windows Task Manager :

1) Java QuickStart process had this morning over 4,000,000,000 IO Bytes reads (after about 10h uptime) - I went to the Java Control panel to disable that feature for now.

2) One of the svchost.exe (the one running netsvcs) has about 3,500,000,000 IO Bytes read after now 12h uptime. (was less than 3,000,000,000 2 hours ago).

I would appreciate any help re. further investigating the heavy reads by netsvcs ...

Also, any idea re. the core issue ("not enough storage to process this command") would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Dominique

 

[dom993]

Re. 2), it turns out to be Windows Firewall that generate all these IO Bytes read ... that's about 20 times the data received on the Ethernet connection ?!!!