fatin said:
why this probs happened since i'm only running windows
explorer. what are the suspected causes to the probs or is
it because of virus? pls help me what to do next.
See MVP Alex Nichol's on Win XP virtual memory management: article
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm
I'll quote a useful section from the end, though (and recommend you read the
body of the article for help in implementing some of the fixes):
It may sometimes happen that the system give 'out of memory' messages on
trying to load a program, or give 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, set to "No page file," then exit System Properties, shut
down the machine, and reboot. Delete PAGEFILE.SYS (on each drive, if more
than just C
, set the page file up again and 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
(
http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/files/lu/lu.html). If the problem happens
at boot 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."
Uninstall this and then get an up-to-date version from Intel's 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 page file's drive's root
directory must give "Full Control" to SYSTEM. If not, there is likely to be
a message at boot that the system is "unable to create a page file."
--
Jim Eshelman, MS-MVP Windows
http://aumha.org/
http://forum.aumha.org/
Did you find this newsgroup on the web? A newsreader like Outlook Express
will make your online life a lot easier. Get better help!
See:
http://aumha.org/win4/supp1b.htm and
http://support.microsoft.com/support/news/howto/default.asp