Virtual Memory??

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Dan

Hi there,
I have just had a popup from microsoft saying I am low on
virtual memory? My Pc has been noticably slow of late.
Does anyone know how I can give it a bit of a boost? I am
on xp, the pc is from Time bought in late 2001. Don't
know the bytes or whatever they are but it should be
reasonabley powerful??! Anyway will be extremely grateful
if anyone could help.
Thanks
Dan
 
RIght-click on My Computer, go to Properties-->Advanced--
Performance Settings. Click Change Virtual Memory in the
Click to expand...
Advanced tab, and change the values before clicking Set.
The lower limit should be half the size of your physical
RAM, and the upper limit should be double or triple the
size (e.g. I have 512mb of RAM, and my lower limit is set
at 256mb, higher limit at 1536mb). That should be plenty.
An actual memory upgrade would help as well (I'm guessing
you've got 128/256mb at the moment), but you should see an
improvement from this.

Hope that helps,
Alun
 
Dan said:
Hi there,
I have just had a popup from microsoft saying I am low on
virtual memory? My Pc has been noticably slow of late.
Does anyone know how I can give it a bit of a boost? I am
on xp, the pc is from Time bought in late 2001. Don't
know the bytes or whatever they are but it should be
reasonabley powerful??! Anyway will be extremely grateful
if anyone could help.
Thanks
Dan
Click to expand...

See MVP Alex Nichol's article on virtual memory in Windows XP at
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

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."
 
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