Refine Doesn't Run

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Clicking on google-refine.exe
2.
3.

What is the expected output? Nothing happens. I click on the exe and the box 
opens then shuts. 

What do you see instead? nothing

What version of Google Refine are you using? 2.5.0.0

What operating system and browser are you using? Win XP SP3

Is this problem specific to the type of browser you're using or it happens
in all the browsers you tried? Doesn't run at all to even use a browser.

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by stroll...@gmail.com on 5 Mar 2012 at 4:17

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Try running google-refine.exe from a command box so that you can see what error 
that it's getting.  You can also try running refine.bat.  Let us know what 
error you are getting.

Original comment by tfmorris on 8 Mar 2012 at 3:13

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I ran it through the command prompt and this is what I get:

Error occurred during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for object heap
Could not create the Java virtual machine

Original comment by stroll...@gmail.com on 8 Mar 2012 at 10:54

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Do other Java apps run on your system without problems?

It sounds like your system is low on memory or on page file space.  By default 
Refine uses a heap size of 1 GB (1024 MB).  You could try reducing this to 512 
MB to see if you can get it to start, but you'll only be able to work on small 
data files.  A better solution is to add memory and/or increase the size of 
your page file (real memory is best, but more virtual memory will help in a 
pinch).

You can change the size of the heap by editing refine.ini and changing the line:

#REFINE_MEMORY=1024M

to 

REFINE_MEMORY=512M

(or whatever value you want to use).  Start Refine by running refine.bat so 
that the .ini file gets read.

Original comment by tfmorris on 8 Mar 2012 at 11:13

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The machine has 2gig of Ram and the page file is set to 2046 - 4092. Should I 
change the paging file or leave it as is?

Original comment by stroll...@gmail.com on 8 Mar 2012 at 11:41

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I also tried what you suggested and still got this error.

Original comment by stroll...@gmail.com on 8 Mar 2012 at 11:44