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Barbara

When I try to get into my hp gallery, I receive a message
on my screen: "virtual memory is low:. It takes forever
for the gallery to load, and sometimes it dous'nt even
come up on the screen.
Please help. this is a fairly new computer.
 
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


----- Barbara wrote: ----

When I try to get into my hp gallery, I receive a message
on my screen: "virtual memory is low:. It takes forever
for the gallery to load, and sometimes it dous'nt even
come up on the screen
Please help. this is a fairly new computer
 
Further info at
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm
-----Original Message-----
Problems with Virtual Memory

It may sometimes happen that the system gives â?oout of
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memoryâ? 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
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shutdown. In the Virtual Memory settings, turn off Virtual
Memory
(check box), exit, shut down the machine, then reboot.
Click to expand...
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
Click to expand...
leaving a minimal amount on C:.
There is trouble with third party software. In
Click to expand...
particular, if the message happens at shutdown, suspect a
problem with
Symantecâ?Ts Norton Live update, for which there is a fix
Click to expand...
posted here. If it happens at startup and the machine has
an Intel
chipset, the message may be caused by an early version
Click to expand...
(before version 2.1) of Intelâ?Ts â?oApplication
Accelerator.â?
Uninstall this and then get an up-to-date version from Intelâ?Ts web site.


Possibly there is trouble with the drivers for IDE hard
Click to expand...
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
Click to expand...
directory of the drive where the page file is must give
"full Controlâ?to SYSTEM. If not, there is likely to be
Click to expand...
a message at boot that the system is "unable to create a
page file.â?
 
I have the same oproblem on Win98 Below is the information I have worked up in detail, probably to much but i wanted to be complete.. The two suggestiopns i have seen so far are run Norton or Delete Pagefile..?

I am running WIN98SE, an upgrade from WIN98. I have 2 512 k Ram chips on a ECS Motherboard running an AMD Athlon XP 2000 CPU. I have “Smart drive†enabled on the bios.

I have a file on my hard drive in the Windows/TEMP directory called: ZLT0364f.TMP I cannot erase or rename the file. This file also changes names but it always begins with a ZL. From Properties, It says it is a 256k file and says 32,768 Bytes used. It always says created on the time when I boot up, such as now Saturday, January 24, 2004 8:36:22 PM. It says modified: Saturday, January 24, 2004 8:36:24 PM and accessed January 24, 2004.

I noticed it when I was trying to modify my swap file. I wanted to make it 1.5Gigs to match my RAM. I did this by clicking on Control panel/System/Performance/Virtual Memory.. and found I cannot modify my swap file on my hard disk. If I try it goes negative and the system won’t reboot. If I let Windows manage it, it says: C:\-4862MB Free. And I have 0 for Min and Max. This seems to result in really poor performance in such things as waiting 2-5min for a page to load when on the web. I am running a cable modem that is testing out above 3MB when tested on www.DSLReports.com web site.

I ran CA eTrust anti virus on it and it did not indicate a virus needed to be cured..


Also when I try to click on the MSDOS Icon to go to Dos I get an error that says “There is not enough memory to run this program, close one or more programs.. (None are running) So I only can reboot in DOS mode, to run DOS. I fixed this problem by taking out 1 512MB RAM Module as per the paragraph below. Is this problem related to the ones above?

I read an article on the MS site, http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;253912, Titled: Out of Memory" Error Messages with Large Amounts of RAM Installed. The article states that there is a 512k memory limitation “Vcache is limited internally to a maximum cache size of 800 MB.†So I took out 1 512k Chip and now I can access MS DOS. However in Dos I cannot del the File WINDOWS/TEMP/ZL???.TMP and set my swap file to 800k.


1) How do I set my Swap file to 800k to improve internet performance?
2) It would be nice to use the other 512k memory module, boosting my RAM to 1Gig. Assuming Windows98SE performance can be improved with 1Gig vs 512MB of Ram??

Any Ideas?

(e-mail address removed)
 
Did you ever edit SYSTEM.INI for the [Vcache] MaxFileCache directive ?

[Vcache]
MaxFileCache=512000

Dave

| I have the same oproblem on Win98 Below is the information I have worked up in detail,
probably to much but i wanted to be complete.. The two suggestiopns i have seen so far are
run Norton or Delete Pagefile..?
|
| I am running WIN98SE, an upgrade from WIN98. I have 2 512 k Ram chips on a ECS Motherboard
running an AMD Athlon XP 2000 CPU. I have "Smart drive" enabled on the bios.
|
| I have a file on my hard drive in the Windows/TEMP directory called: ZLT0364f.TMP I
cannot erase or rename the file. This file also changes names but it always begins with a
ZL. From Properties, It says it is a 256k file and says 32,768 Bytes used. It always says
created on the time when I boot up, such as now Saturday, January 24, 2004 8:36:22 PM. It
says modified: Saturday, January 24, 2004 8:36:24 PM and accessed January 24, 2004.
|
| I noticed it when I was trying to modify my swap file. I wanted to make it 1.5Gigs to
match my RAM. I did this by clicking on Control panel/System/Performance/Virtual Memory..
and found I cannot modify my swap file on my hard disk. If I try it goes negative and the
system won't reboot. If I let Windows manage it, it says: C:\-4862MB Free. And I have 0 for
Min and Max. This seems to result in really poor performance in such things as waiting
2-5min for a page to load when on the web. I am running a cable modem that is testing out
above 3MB when tested on www.DSLReports.com web site.
|
| I ran CA eTrust anti virus on it and it did not indicate a virus needed to be cured..
|
|
| Also when I try to click on the MSDOS Icon to go to Dos I get an error that says "There is
not enough memory to run this program, close one or more programs.. (None are running) So I
only can reboot in DOS mode, to run DOS. I fixed this problem by taking out 1 512MB RAM Mo
dule as per the paragraph below. Is this problem related to the ones above?
|
| I read an article on the MS site,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;253912, Titled: Out of Memory" Error
Messages with Large Amounts of RAM Installed. The article states that there is a 512k memory
limitation "Vcache is limited internally to a maximum cache size of 800 MB." So I took out 1
512k Chip and now I can access MS DOS. However in Dos I cannot del the File
WINDOWS/TEMP/ZL???.TMP and set my swap file to 800k.
|
|
| 1) How do I set my Swap file to 800k to improve internet performance?
| 2) It would be nice to use the other 512k memory module, boosting my RAM to 1Gig. Assuming
Windows98SE performance can be improved with 1Gig vs 512MB of Ram??
|
| Any Ideas?
|
| (e-mail address removed)
|
 
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