Virtual Memory overload?

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down in the lower right hand corner about once a week a icon pops up saying i have a virtual memory overload and thats its expanding the hold capacity...is there a way i can delete virtual memory? i believe its making my computer slower while its at it.....any suggestinos?
 
You don't want to "delete" virtual memory. How much RAM do you have in your
machine? You may need more.

JAX

zachary93218 said:
down in the lower right hand corner about once a week a icon pops up
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saying i have a virtual memory overload and thats its expanding the hold
capacity...is there a way i can delete virtual memory? i believe its making
my computer slower while its at it.....any suggestinos?
 
i checked it out and it says i have a total of 1.22GB of virtual memory and 636.58MB of free space for virtual memory.... so what now?
 
The amount of RAM is what I questioned. The easiest way to find out how much
RAM you have is to r-click My Computer and choose properties. The general
tab will tell you.

JAX

zachary93218 said:
i checked it out and it says i have a total of 1.22GB of virtual memory
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and 636.58MB of free space for virtual memory.... so what now?
 
zachary93218 said:
down in the lower right hand corner about once a week a icon pops up saying i have a virtual memory overload and thats its expanding the hold capacity...is there a way i can delete virtual memory? i believe its making my computer slower while its at it.....any suggestinos?
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Virtual memory refers to the sum total of the memory address space
available to your computer - the sum of the RAM plus the paging file.

However it is commonplace to use the term to refer to just the paging
file, and disabling that would only make whatever problems you now
have that much worse. It might even make your computer unusable.

See MVP Alex Nichol's article on virtual memory in Windows XP at
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm for a more detailed explanation and
possible solutions to your problem.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."
 
That is enough RAM for most users. Open the Task Mgr and see what is using
the resources. You may have programs loading at start that are eating your
resources.

Do you have an updated AV program and have you scanned your system for
spyware? Spyware can use a lot of your system if not cleaned. Below are
links to the two most popular free spyware removers. If you don't have them,
download, install, update and run them.

Ad-aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

Spybot S&D
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=en&page=download

Use those programs regularly.

HTH, JAX
 
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