Microsoft Windows Updates for Windows XP dated about 10/8/2012 – 10/12/2012 with the following KB identifiers has caused the users of Power POS to get out of memory error messages.

kb2749655
kb2756822
kb2661254-v2
kb2724197

These must be uninstalled to regain the memory originally available to the DOS environment under which Power POS runs.

UNINSTALL of Windows XP Updates.

• Go to the control panel and click Add\Remove Programs.
• Once it populates, look at the top of the box and add a check mark to the box marked 'show updates'.
• It will repopulate the window again and all updates will be listed.
• In the upper right select “sort by:” DATE
• Scroll to near the bottom of the list and you will see the updates in question
• Uninstall each one, restarting as needed.

Some of the updates may give a warning about certain programs "possibly” not running properly, but those warnings may be ignored.

For More info see this document

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Settings from Tools, Internet Options.
3. Click on the Security tab.
4. Select Local Intranet and click Sites.
5. Clear the checkbox for Automatically detect intranet and check the other 3 boxes.
6. Click the Advanced button on that same dialog box
7. Clear the checkbox to "Require server verification (https) for all sites in this zone.
8. And add "file://ServerName" to the list of trusted sites.
9. Click OK
10. Click Apply
11. Click Ok
12. Close Internet Explorer