Build-A-Board uses multiple processes to build boards - on newer systems with multi-core processors, this can dramatically increase build times. On older systems, and on older versions of Windows (2000/XP), this can cause memory issues, or hung processes. You may also receive a windows error (0xc0000142 - Application fails to initialize). Increasing system memory or virtual memory may help, but there is also this information: Microsoft Knowledgebase KB126962

Here are step by step instructions (Registry update/system restart required)

1. Start Menu | Run
2. Type in Regedit, then OK/[Enter]
3. Find the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Session Manager/SubSystems
4. Find the Windows entry in the SubSystems key
5. Edit the entry, and look or the area called SharedSection=1024,3072,512 (numbers may vary)
6. Change to SharedSection=1024,12288,1024
7. OK to Update, close Regedit, then restart your system

Notes:

• Depending on product, release version, OS version, and specific technical issue, some tech items are very specific, and some may span to other products/versions
• Downloadable files can also be accessed by anonymous FTP at ftp://downloads.imgpresents.com
• Older files are moved into a separate archive location - see notes/details/new location in *.archived.txt text file

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