Dear viewers,
I've downloaded a trial version of Painter IX to see how it is before I make my purchase. Considering I have dial up, it took me a very long time to load all that 100-something megabytes.
Though after installing properly like many other successful times with different programs before, I'm faced with this peculiar problem I cannot decipher with my medium-sized knowledge of computers.
It installs fine, but when I go to run it I get stuck with this error that terminates itself before it even loads the application. I tried uninstalling, reinstalling, uninstalling again, redownloading from different sites twice, and repeated the method a few times.

PAINTERRIPLIB.DLL file is linked to the missing export KERNEL32.DLL:GlobalMemoryStatusEx

To my knowing, nothing else is acting strange. Though this error is probley right under my nose and I don't even know it.

What operating system are you using; Win 98, XP,...?

Ack! I'm sorry. Stupid, stupid me.
I'm using Windows ME.

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Macintosh®:

* Mac OS® X (version 10.2.8 or higher)
* Power Macintosh® G3, 500 MHz or greater
* 128MB of RAM (256MB recommended)
* Mouse or tablet
* 24-bit color display
* 1,024x768 or greater monitor resolution
* CD-ROM
* 395MB of available hard disk space

Windows®:

* Windows 2000 or Windows XP (with latest service packs)
* Pentium® II, 500 MHz or greater
* 128 MB RAM (256MB recommended)
* Mouse or tablet
* 24-bit color display
* 1024x768 or greater monitor resolution
* CD-ROM
* 380MB of available hard disk space