Memory trouble

When I try to open the paint program on my windows 98Se it tell me can not open not enough resources to close some programs and try again
I have 384 MB of ram and the system in a 4.2 gig system
and there is nothing running to shut down
please help

 

Resources is nothing to do with the amount of memory.

There are a finite number of "heaps" (pointers in a table) for resources in Windows 9x.
When they are all allocated, you have a resource issue.
Some software does not correctly release them when a program closes.

Also if programs get corrupt they can report resource limitations, even when the resource table is free.

 

Well maybe there is a Way I can just reload the paint program from my windows 98SE CD and fix the problem if you think it is corrupt program ?
how would i do this