Hi
Problems with Virtual Memor
It may sometimes happen that the system gives “out of memory†messages on trying to load a program, or gives a message about Virtual Memory space being low. Possible causes of this are The setting for Maximum size of the page file is too low, or there is not enough disk space free to expand it to that size
The page file has become corrupt, possibly at a bad shutdown. In the Virtual Memory settings, turn off Virtual Memory
(check box), exit, shut down the machine, then reboot. Delete PAGEFILE.SYS (on each drive if it exists on more than just C
, turn Virtual Memory on again, and then reboot to bring it into use
The page file has been put on a different drive without leaving a minimal amount on C:
There is trouble with third party software. In particular, if the message happens at shutdown, suspect a problem with
Symantec’s Norton Live update, for which there is a fix posted here. If it happens at startup and the machine has an Intel
chipset, the message may be caused by an early version (before version 2.1) of Intel’s “Application Accelerator.â€
Uninstall this and then get an up-to-date version from Intel’s web site
Possibly there is trouble with the drivers for IDE hard disks; in Device Manager, remove the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
(main controller) and reboot for Plug and Play to start over
With an NTFS file system, the permissions for the root directory of the drive where the page file is must give
"full Controlâ€to SYSTEM. If not, there is likely to be a message at boot that the system is "unable to create a page file.â€
Hope it helps
Pete
----- Gary UK wrote: ----
I keep getting the error message, your computer is low on
virtual memory, i have 512mb of actual memory installed
Is the virtual memory something i can keep cleaned up or
should the computer be doing this automatically? my
pc/applications are running pretty slow
Thank
Gary UK
