… ‚Insufficient memory to perform this operation.‘

This message has repeatedly appeared on my laptop screen every time that I have tried to work on and save my newest campaign map … and I am finding it very frustrating. What makes it worse is the fact that as far as I can ascertain, the BMP image file that I am trying to work on is actually smaller than the size of my recently created map of Zubia … which is only 27.8 MB.

I have trawled through the internet to see if I can find a solution and I can find plenty that work for MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint but not for MS Paint. (It is worth noting that I am not getting this error message when I use any of the first three programs I have listed.)

I suspect that there is either a problem with my MS Paint program (which is not longer supported by Microsoft) or there is a program running in the background and that it is using enough operating memory to make it impossible for me to work on large image files. I am therefore going to purge my laptop of any applications that I not longer use and reinstall MS Paint.

I hope that this will sort the problem out. If it doesn’t, then I may well have to think about buying a new and bigger laptop, something that I have been considering for some time.