Naughty Nodes - The line/shape did not have enough memory...

[handrawn]

was your windows 7 32-bit or 64-bit ?

P&G9 came out in 2013 so I reckon it was 32-bit only, but cannot recall for sure; windows 10 did not launch until 2015

whether your OS is 32-bit or 64-bit almost certainly makes little difference to X5 because it dates from a time when OS were 'simple', but P&G9 is likley to have routines and optimisations that are tailtored for win7, not win10; compatibility mode is not guaranteed to fix all these; win 10 now being 64-bit only may compound this - sure the program will run, but not as well as it should perhaps

you have checked you RAM as well as your disks ?

[somewhereman]

yes, i have checked ram and disks (i have other graphics programs i use with no issues)

thanks for the info on windows version differences (95% of the time i use linux, but i have to start from scratch with designs and it just works quicker in windows)

my windows 10 cannot even keep time properly, every time i open it the time defaults to 9 hours later (i've tried everything recommended online to no avail)
in my eyes it is terrible compared to windows 7, and downright abysmal compared to any linux i have run

[handrawn]

sounds like your windows 10 laptop is set to wrong time zone - if you cannot get windows 10 settings to correct this, then it may be a UEFI/BIOS setting overiding windows

[Chris M]

my windows 10 cannot even keep time properly, every time i open it the time defaults to 9 hours later

Right click the date/time in your task bar (bottom right of your screen) and click Adjust Date/Time.
Make sure your Time Zone is set to the correct time zone and not Reykjavik or whatever.

[handrawn]

yes, you would think that would work
it's possible something else is overriding it, but that would be unusual in a stand alone personal laptop I would have thought

[somewhereman]

just a quick update

still no time zone accuracy (no matter what i choose/change)

whenever i login to my wifi network the windows antimalware gobbles up 80-100% of my ram making the computer unusable
i have tried every available setting/policy/registry/program/etc to no avail
every time the computer re-boots windows overrides all my previous work

maybe i just got a lemon, or windows 10 is just that bad
i think i will re-install windows 7

thanks to all for the help

[handrawn]

windows 10 is not that bad, but it is very different to window 7; maybe your installation was spiked...

[wizard509]

Did you try restarting your computer? I find doing so solves many problems.