Virtual Memory too low!

Question

Hi!...Please help (FIRST TIME)!ON VIRTUAL MEMORY I have a: -Windows XP (Home Edition, Version 2002, Service Pack 2) Dell Dimension DIM 2400 Intel (R) Celeron (R) CPU 2.409GHz 2.39 GHz, 256MB of RAM   Space available on c:/: 27340MB Currently everytime I am on the internet for a certain amount of time (like Bebo), I get a message to say that 'virtual memory is low' and my computer is extremely slow.   Also when I went into MY COMPUTER, C:/ drive is highlighted in blue. I had a look in c:/system volume information/catalog.wci. If its any help the following files were highlighted in blue & not sure what they are: -CiCL0001.000 000 File 1KB                                -CiSL0001.002 -CiCl0001.001                              002 File 64KB 001 File 192KB                             -INDEX.000              -CiCl0001.02                                 000 File 1KB 002 File 192KB                             -INDEX.001 -CiSL0001.000                              001 File 64KB 000File 1KB -INDEX.002 002 File 64KB I have gone to the Performance Options and reset it System Managed Size. I have also defrag & cleanup disk, backed files on CD etc... But even when I restarted the Computer, nothing has changed!.. I would greatly appreciate your help! Thanks

Otiss · Answer

Sounds like you need more ram, you can try disabling services you don't use and get ride of all the files you don't need and clean up your pc.

jmwills · Answer

Virtual memory should be set to no less than 1.5 times the amount of physical RAM. If you are correct with that setting, then yes, more RAM is needed. Buy all you can afford. It is cheap.

Go to Crucial for a good confguration tool and good pricing.

Otiss · Answer

Crucial is a great company and they have quality ram, one more vote here for them ;)

SR45 · Answer

Not only that, the integrated video chip takes some of that low amount of 256 mb of memory, leaving you with even less, and this is another reason for the error message.

You may not only wish to upgrade the memory to at least 512 mb for windows xp but perhaps a PCI slot video card as well.

ky331 · Answer

A  blue filename  indicates that the file has been compressed (to save space).

n1hunt · Answer

I read the responses to the 'virtual memory too low' problem, but I remain puzzled.  The computer I'm presently using is a Dell Dimension 2350 with 1 GB of RAM, the recommended maximum.  The OS is XP Home Edition.  I keep receiving the 'virtual memory too small' message, too.  I just increased the size of the virtual memory paging file size to 384, and maybe this will stop the messages.  If not, does anyone have another recommendation.  I can't add more memory since this is not recommended.  Thanks Nina

Balaji Ramanath · Answer

Just set the virtual memory setting to 'system managed size' and forget about it.  Why people insist on fine-tuning what is rightfully an OS function is beyond me.

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Virtual Memory too low!

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