Virtual Memory Problem

[Quirkie]

I have a laptop with Windows XP

I keep this message saying my virtual memory is too low. How can I increase the memory?

 

Thanks for any help

 

Quirkie

[KenB]

Hi Quirkie

 

How much RAM do you have in your machine ?

 

Virtual Memory is not specifically linked with RAM but if you don't have enough you could get this message popping up.

 

To check the V-M ....

 

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[TD]Open System in Control Panel.

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[TD]On the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings.

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[TD]On the Advanced tab, under Virtual memory, click Change.

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[TD]Under Drive [Volume Label], click the drive that contains the paging file you want to change.

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You are best advised to have this set to "System Managed".

[Quirkie]

It has 512MB of RAM

 

Quirkie

[Jelly Bean]

Have you tried what KenB has posted?

[Quirkie]

Yes, I just did that. We'll see what happens

 

Quirkie

[Jelly Bean]

Hopefully you should be fine.

[KenB]

It has 512MB of RAM

XP runs best with 1GB or more of RAM.

It depends what you have on the machine and what you are using it for.

 

Did you have to change the option to "System Managed" ?

[Quirkie]

Yes, I changed it to "System Managed" So far it is doing fine. I'll let you know if that message comes up again.

This is an old computer and so is my desktop. It is also an XP. They both slowing down. Hopefully soon I'll be able to get a new computer

 

Thanks for the help

 

Quirkie

[KenB]

That should sort it :)

 

It does depend what you are doing ....... as I said 512Mb is not quite enough ...... again ... depends what you use the system for.